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  • The Easy Day Was Yesterday

  • The Extreme Life of an SAS Soldier
  • By: Paul Jordan
  • Narrated by: Neil Pigot
  • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (360 ratings)
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The Easy Day Was Yesterday

By: Paul Jordan
Narrated by: Neil Pigot
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Summary

From his cage in a putrid, overcrowded Indian jail, Paul Jordan reflects on a life lived on the edge and curses the miscalculation that robbed him of his freedom.

His childhood, marred by the loss of his father and brother, produces a young man hell-bent on being the best of the best - an ambition he achieves by being selected to join the elite SAS. He survives the gut-wrenching training regime, deployment to the jungles of Asia and the horrors of genocide in Rwanda before leaving the army to embark on a career as a security adviser.

His new life sees him pursuing criminals and gun-toting bandits in Papua New Guinea and the Solomons, protecting CNN newsmen as the US 7th Cavalry storms into Baghdad with the outbreak of the Iraq War and facing death on a massive scale as he accompanies reporters into the devastated Indonesian town of Banda Ache, flattened by the Boxing Day tsunami.

During his 24 days in an Indian gaol, Paul Jordan discovers that friendship and human dignity somehow survive the filth and deprivation.

The Easy Day Was Yesterday is fast paced, brutally honest, raw and laced with dark humour. The core of Paul Jordan's eventful life, it shows the ability of the human spirit to survive even in the direst adversity.

©2013 Paul Jordan (P)2017 Audible, Ltd
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Not what I thought

It is all about a guy who spends a few days in an Indian jail over a silly incident. Whether he was SAS or not irrelevant because the story is nothing about that.
It is actually quite boring, it could be related within a couple of chapters.

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Not what I thought it would be.

Bit disappointed really. I bought this hoping to hear about his army career. Three stars.

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not really about the SAS

this guy spends 90% of his time talking about a few weeks in a dirty prison in (I think) Nepal. Whilst filthy most of the people treat him well and sound quite nice. Whilst no doubt a traumatic experience it really isn't interesting enough to form the basis of a book. the structure of the book is also disjointed and whilst I felt a fondness for the author I can't help but feel he had better stories to tell us but didn't. I listed to about 70% of the book I couldn't continue. For me a brilliant ending would not have saved the book.

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a little tedious

seemed more like a report than a novel, the narration seemed a little lacklustre too.

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Boring

A chore to listen to. Nothing happened. Don’t waste your credits here, or even worse, cash.

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Not what I was expecting

It’s a compelling story but there were times I was wondering if it really was being told by an SASR veteran. The amount of bitching about being touched by men, the lack of adjustment to another culture even though it was in a prison and how hot and uncomfortable it was in prison was a bit much. Coming from an Australian with a special forces background I found that a bit embarrassing. Maybe being an ex British Paratrooper I was expecting more, the title of the book certainly leaves you expecting more. If there’s one thing I’ve taken from the book it’s that literally anyone can write a book about their life and get it published.

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Expected more from this book

I got through this but never felt the story actually took off. Sort of peaked around the third chapter and never really picked up from there I felt.

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the worst audiobook ever.

the worst audiobook. no plot, mediocre story telling and flat. I tried to listen more but I could not continue.

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Not what I was expecting

It appeared to be advertised as a memoir of the life of an elite soldier but instead turned out to be mainly the story of a short stay in a foreign prison. Whilst I cannot begin to imagine how horrendous this must have been, the events are disjointed and I wasn’t a huge far of the narrator.
Got about 3 hours in and couldn’t stick with it any longer

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Utter Rubbish ..

This is written in a typically Aussie male (I was in the SAS .. so I must be a man) stereotypical fashion .. The writing is dribble .. While I appreciate Paul Jordan is probably a fine fellow at heart .. This book felt as if I was reading a book written in the 1970's .. so dated is the author's attitude .. towards greed .. relationships .. gender .. homosexuality .. I can only imagine the 4 star rating this book achieves is out of pity or given by imbeciles ..
The Performance/Narration is a 5 rating .. though I couldn't give that in the category ratings .. as it would reflect my overall score ..
and I wanted to give this the lowest possible rating .. I could.

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