The idea is to find out if Harry has the toughness to survive an actual capture on the battlefield. He’s hooded, dragged to an underground bunker, beaten, frozen, starved, stripped, forced into excruciating stress positions by captors wearing black balaclavas. It’s a simulation, but the tortures inflicted upon Harry are very real. Harry, at the close of gruelling military exercises in rural England, gets captured by pretend terrorists. For two years, I’d been the ghostwriter on Harry’s memoir, “ Spare,” and now, reviewing his latest edits in a middle-of-the-night Zoom session, we’d come to a difficult passage. Then, as Harry started going back at me, as his cheeks flushed and his eyes narrowed, a more pressing thought occurred: Whoa, it could all end right here. And yet some part of me was still able to step outside the situation and think, This is so weird. My head was pounding, my jaw was clenched, and I was starting to raise my voice.
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