'Terrific, sharp, punchy, drenched in experience and action. It feels like a war story - and that is absolutely right.' Tony Parsons

Relentlessly frank and honest, this is the true story of a London firefighter's gruelling 25-year career.

Clifford Thompson recounts his scintillating first-hand experiences of the 1988 Clapham train crash, the 1993 bombing of New York's World Trade Centre, and the aftermath of the Kings Cross fire. He describes the trauma that firefighters deal with every day.

Despite facing many horrific situations and experiencing major disasters, it is one memory that haunts him to this day: a three-year-old boy dying caught up in a house fire just days before Christmas.

About the Author

Clifford Thompson is a journalist, writer and former London Firefighter. He has worked in television news for more than 20 years and is a staff journalist with BBC News covering national and international stories. He has a Diploma of Higher Education in psychology from the University of East London, a Bachelor's degree in Humanities from the University of London (Birkbeck) and in 2012, he graduated from City University's MA in Narrative Non-fiction Writing. In 2014 he was awarded a scholarship by the Norman Mailer Center in the US, at the University of Utah to study creative non-fiction and develop his writing. The venue was Salt Lake City - the setting for Mailer's The Executioner's Song. Falling Through Fire is his first book - a memoir about his time, first as a firefighter, then as a journalist working on major disasters including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Paddington train crash.

Book Information
ISBN 9781907324703
Author Clifford Thompson
Format Paperback
Imprint Mirror Books
Publisher Mirror Books
Weight(grams) 177g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm