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Lethal Force: My Life as the Met's Most Controversial Marksman
Tony Long
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Description for Lethal Force: My Life as the Met's Most Controversial Marksman
Paperback. Tony Long was the best 'shot' the Met ever had. Under the codename 'Echo 7', he was 'licenced to kill' bringing down scores of targets. From life or death cases and botched operations to political fallouts, this book charts his controversial career from rookie seventies beat cop to Long's command of SO19 - the Met's elite specialist firearms unit. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; BGA; BTC; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 254.
Tony Long was the best `shot' the Met ever had. Under the codename `Echo 7', he was `licenced to kill' bringing down scores of targets, sometimes with deadly force. In 1985 he opened fire on a suspect to save a four-year-old girl whose mother had been stabbed to death by her assailant. Two years later he was involved in another high profile shooting while confronting three armed criminals. On both occasions Tony was commended by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. But in the spring of 2005, coming face to face with suspected drug dealer and armed robber Azelle Rodney, a volley ... Read more
Tony Long was the best `shot' the Met ever had. Under the codename `Echo 7', he was `licenced to kill' bringing down scores of targets, sometimes with deadly force. In 1985 he opened fire on a suspect to save a four-year-old girl whose mother had been stabbed to death by her assailant. Two years later he was involved in another high profile shooting while confronting three armed criminals. On both occasions Tony was commended by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner. But in the spring of 2005, coming face to face with suspected drug dealer and armed robber Azelle Rodney, a volley ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ebury Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785033957
SKU
V9781785033957
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99-49
About Tony Long
In a lengthy career spent as an instructor and operator within the Met's elite specialist firearms units, Tony Long participated in hundreds of groundbreaking armed operations against the UK's most hardened criminals, earning him many commendations and forcing him on several occasions to resort to lethal force. Labelled a `serial killer' by Scotland Yard bosses, in 2015, facing a potential ... Read more
Reviews for Lethal Force: My Life as the Met's Most Controversial Marksman
Gripping and action packed
Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan