The Feather Men by Ranulph Fiennes (SIGNED)

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, 1991, hardcover, illustrated, index, 280 pages, condition: very good.

The story of a secret organization called "The Feathermen" and their 14-year attempt to trace the killers of a number of British ex-servicemen in Britain and abroad.

I became aware of the novel, THE FEATHER MEN by Ranulph Fiennes after watching the action movie version called Killer Elite. At the end of the movie, it was stated that this movie was based on the 1991 non-fiction true story historical novel by author Ranulph Fiennes. Having enjoyed the movie I decided to read the book.

The novel is well written and is about assassins and victims. It is about a group of contract assassins, The Clinic, who were hired by an Oman sheikh to carry out revenge killings for the deaths of his four sons during the civil war. The objects for assassination were all British SAS officers. The Feather Men was a secret British vigilante organization protecting the families of former SAS members. The Feather Men determined that the deaths of the four SAS was not so accidental and spent years hunting down the killers. Sir Ranulph was to be the next victim, and decides to write a novel and preserve the truth.

I strongly recommend this book for anyone to read, a good history and action book. I also found that by watching the movie first, I had a better understanding of the depth of this novel.

                                                    WITH A SIGNED LETTERHEAD FROM THE AUTHOR'S FARM IN ENGLAND.