The Feather men is the riveting story of a secret organization whose efforts by a private British vigilance committee, founded in England in the late 1960s.  Their 14-year attempt to eliminate a band of coldblooded contract killers of a number of British ex-servicemen in Britain and abroad. From 1977 to 1990, three hired assassins known as the Clinic tracked down and murdered four former British soldiers, one at a time. Each of the assassinations was carried out in such an ingenious fashion that there would be no hint of foul play, but one clue these killings has in common was that all four victims had fought in the Arabian desert. Feather Men known as “our touch is light” – were never far behind the hit team. Finally, in the Autumn of 1990, on a quiet English country lane, the Feather Men achieved a form of justice. Ranulph Fiennes to reveal their spellbinding story. 

For many months, The Feather Men has been a number-one-best-seller in England. The Feather Men is a fascinating account of a tenacious double manhunt: the assassins stalking their victims and the Feather Men pursuing the assassins. This is the ultimate vigilante story, a tale that combines the white-knuckled tension of The Day of the Jackal and the revelatory drama of Spycatcher. This shocking real-life adventure raises the moral question of whether private citizens should take law into their own hands. “However, I for one” says Fiennes, “am truly glad that the Feather Men exist, or existed. As to my reasons… the reader will learn in what follows.”

Amr bin Issa, sheikh of a tribe in Oman, had lost four sons in his country’s civil wars. Although tradition demanded that the avenge their deaths, he did nothing and was deposed as sheikh. Then he arrange with the Clinic to kill the servicemen believed responsible for the deaths of his sons. How the hired killers went about their task ( making each murder look like an accident), how they were finally apprehended and how this case in 1990 also put an end to the Committee.

The Feather Men by Sir Ranulph Fiennes Bt OBE, Bloomsbury Publishing 1991