Terrorist Hunter
25,000 copies sold
In the heart of the Special Forces Lionel D. & Annemie Bulté For the first time a member of the police tactical unit takes off his balaclava Including the unique story of the hunt for IS terrorist Abdeslam, who was arrested on 18 March 2016 About a life and death commitment to their unit and their mission Belgium, 15 January 2015. In Verviers, a member of the police tactical unit raided a terrace house where three IS terrorists were planning an attack. The gunfight was the beginning of a terror wave in both Belgium and France. Chief Inspector Lionel D. of the Special Intervention Unit was on the front line. And now, for the first time, a member of the Federal Police Special Units talks openly about his life and work. In the book he focuses on the intensive training, the life and death commitment and the daily battle against gangsters and tyrants. The book is about how his family kept him going and how it felt to have another child during this waging war on terror. It’s about how the hunt for Abdeslam changed the life of his colleagues and himself forever.
Lionel D. is Chief Inspector of the Directorate of Special Units, which is part of the Belgian Federal Police. It’s the best trained intervention unit in Belgium and the last unit to call upon in the fight against terrorists. Annemie Bulté is a senior journalist for the weekly magazine Humo and co-author of the successful Overlever van de Bende van Nijvel.
155 x 240 mm | 320 pages | 95,000 words paperback | all rights available French manuscript available
The Story of a Brabant's Killer's Survivor all rights available French manuscript available
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