Manual Approach

About the Book

The war is over. The bombs are not. Kosovo, 1999. As NATO forces struggle to keep the peace after conflict, British Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal operator Sergeant Dave Green is called to investigate a device unlike any he has encountered before. What begins as a routine call-out soon turns sinister when Dave recognises the signature of a highly skilled bomb maker operating in the shadows. For Dave, bombs are more than weapons—they are messages. As incidents across Europe begin to connect, he is drawn into a deadly world of intelligence, organised crime, and international conspiracy. Behind it all lies an elusive figure known only as The Alchemist—a man whose creations are as ingenious as they are lethal. But before Dave became one of the Army's most trusted EOD operators, he was a young man fighting to escape a difficult upbringing. Through hardship, military training, and operational deployments, he forged the skills that would place him on the trail of a master bomb maker. Inspired by real-world EOD experience, Manual Approach is a gripping military thriller about courage, sacrifice, and the deadly contest between those who build bombs and those who risk everything to defeat them. Because in the world of EOD, one mistake can be fatal. And this is only the beginning of Dave Green's story.