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The memoir provides an account of Glasl's life in the SOG, a group of ultra-fit, highly trained officers brought in to do the jobs other police cannot. Glasl joined the SOG in 1994, aspiring to be part of what he perceived as an untouchable, indestructible brotherhood. However, the book reveals a
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