TY - BOOK AU - Hunter, Chris. TI - Eight lives down: the story of a counter-terrorist bomb-disposal operator's tour in Iraq SN - 9780593058657 AV - DS79.769 .H86 2007 U1 - 956.70443341092 22 PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Bantam KW - Hunter, Chris. KW - Iraq War (2003-2011) KW - fast KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - Personal narratives, British KW - Ordnance disposal units KW - Great Britain KW - Iraq KW - Personal narratives KW - British N2 - "If fate is against me and I'm killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I'm wounded, don't let me be crippled. But above all don't let me fuck up the task". So goes the bomb technicians prayer before every bomb he defuses. For Chris Hunter, it is a prayer he says many times over his four month tour of Iraq ER -