Blood and Sand

<p><b>On the June 6 2004 while on assignment in Riyadh BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner and cameraman Simon Cumbers were ambushed by Islamist gunmen. Simon was killed outright. Frank was hit in the shoulder and leg. As he lay in the dust a figure stood over him and pumped four more bullets into his body at point-blank range...</b><br><br>Against all the odds Frank Gardner survived. <br><br>Today although partly paralysed Frank continues to travel the world reporting and making documentaries for the BBC. This acclaimed memoir was brought up to date with a new chapter that recounted his return to Saudi Arabia for the first time since he was shot and the story he tells continues to move and inspire and remains an affirmation of his deep understanding of - and affection for - the Islamic world in these uncertain times.<br>___<br><br><br><b>'Gardner tells his remarkable tale well and bravely with an astonishing lack of anger and enduring love and respect for the Islamic world'</b><i> SUNDAY TIMES</i><br><br><b>'Brave unsentimental and genuinely inspiring'</b> <i>EVENING STANDARD </i><br><b>'What makes Gardner's moving often humorous deeply personal story so important is the fact that he has woven into it a brilliantly dispassionate clear-eyed account of the Islamic world'</b> <i>SCOTSMAN</i><br><b>'A witty self-deprecating inspiring testament'</b> <i>DAILY TELEGRAPH</i></p>