Falling Through Fire

Falling Through Fire

by Clifford Thompson (Author)

Synopsis

The true story of a fire-fighter and his experiences of high-profile disasters during his 25 year career. However, there is one memory he cannot escape and he is haunted by the death of a three-year-old boy dying in his arms after a house fire just days before Christmas.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 244
Publisher: Mirror Books
Published: 07 Sep 2017

ISBN 10: 1907324704
ISBN 13: 9781907324703

Author Bio
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.