No Way Out

No Way Out: A Gripping Account of Easy Company's Brutal Battle for Survival in Afghanistan

In this powerful and moving Sunday Times bestseller, Adam Jowett pays tribute to the men of Easy Company who paid a heavy price for serving their country in Afghanistan. In July 2006, Major Jowett was given command of Easy Company, a hastily assembled and under-strength unit of Paras and Royal Irish rangers tasked with holding the District Centre of Musa Qala at any cost. Cut off and heavily outnumbered by the Taliban, Easy Company found themselves in a ramshackle compound, facing wave after wave of brutal attacks.

With vivid detail and gripping prose, Jowett evokes the heat and chaos of battle as he and his men fought back heroically over twenty-one days and nights of relentless, nerve-shredding combat. Bearing the weight of responsibility for the lives of his soldiers, Jowett led Easy Company through an extraordinary turn of events as they faced death down to their last rounds.

Hailed as ‘a brilliant first-hand account that crackles with action and brims with humanity’ by Patrick Bishop and ‘the Rorke's Drift of our times’ by war reporter Martin Bell, No Way Out is a pulsating memoir of modern warfare at its most brutal. Jowett's ‘superb account of the chaos and brutality of conflict’, as described by Levison Wood, makes for an unforgettable read.