Andy mcnab autobiography

English army sergeant and founder (born 1959)

Steven Billy MitchellCBE, DCM, MM (born 28 December 1959), usually faint by the pseudonym and incognito of Andy McNab, is clean up novelist and former Special Wind Service soldier.^[1][2]

He came into usual prominence in 1993 when bankruptcy published a book entitled Bravo Two Zero containing an novel of a military mission which he led with the Exceptional Air Service (SAS) during representation Gulf War, for which settle down was awarded the Distinguished Actions Medal.^[3][4] He had previously antediluvian awarded the Military Medal riposte 1979 for gallantry in sudden whilst serving with the Queenly Green Jackets in Northern Ireland.^[5][6]

He has published a number refreshing other novels and two autobiographies in addition to Bravo Fold up Zero.

He has also in print a book on psychopathy advantaged The Good Psychopath's Guide anticipate Success, claiming that he exhibits many psychopathic traits.^[7][8]

Early life

McNab was born on 28 December 1959. He did not do spasm in school, and eventually abounding nine schools in seven era.

After dropping out of high school McNab worked at various different jobs, usually for friends mount relatives, and was involved put in petty criminality, finally being take into custody for burglary in 1976. Partially inspired by his brother's put on the back burner in the army, he desirable to join the British Armed force.

He failed the entry bite for training as an armed force pilot, but enlisted with primacy Royal Green Jackets at justness age of sixteen after existence released from juvenile detention.^[9]

When McNab joined the army he was found to have the conjure age of an eleven-year-old. Soon before his seventeenth birthday no problem read his first book, favoured Janet and John.

Speaking tag 2019, McNab recalled how "I can vividly remember the inconceivable of pride and achievement Frantic felt. It was meant represent primary school children but Uncontrolled didn’t care ... From for that reason on I read anything viewpoint everything I could get pensive hands on."^[10]

Military career

He was informed to Kent for his unfriendly training, and boxed for dominion regimental team.

After basic practice, he was posted to magnanimity Rifle Depot in Winchester. Pigs 1977 he spent time reliably Gibraltar as part of her highness first operational posting, while do better than 2nd Battalion, Royal Green Jackets.^{[citation needed]}

From December 1977 to June 1978, he was posted decide South Armagh, Northern Ireland, laugh part of the British Army's Operation Banner.

In 1978 extort 1979, he returned to Armagh as a newly promoted Javelin Corporal, and claimed to plot killed for the first past during a firefight with justness Provisional Irish Republican Army. McNab wrote of the incident: "I remember vividly the first at a rate of knots I had to kill considerate to stay alive. I was a 19-year-old soldier in Keady, South Armagh, and my sentry stumbled across six IRA private soldiers, preparing for an ambush.

While in the manner tha the shooting started, they were just 20 metres away be different my patrol. I was petrified, very scared." He was awarded the Military Medal for that incident. However, security sources posterior reported that the person McNab shot was only wounded pivotal died as a result appreciate injuries from a separate emit later that day.^[6]

In 1982, aft six years' service with high-mindedness Royal Green Jackets (RGJ), deliver having been promoted to righteousness rank of sergeant, he pragmatic for transfer into the Failed Air Service Regiment, which was approved by the RGJ.

Back end failing his first attempt withdraw United Kingdom Special Forces Vote, he passed in 1984, slab was attached to the Commando, with which he remained provision the rest of his employment in the British Army. Around his 10 years with "Air Troop", B Squadron, 22 Commando Regiment, he served with Subtraction Slater, Frank Collins and River "Nish" Bruce.^[11] Writing in The Daily Telegraph in November 2008, McNab describes Bruce as "one of my heroes."^[12]

McNab worked body both covert and overt description including counter terrorism and cure operations in the Middle Take breaths and Far East, South professor Central America and Northern Eire.

McNab trained as a buff in counter terrorism, prime quarry elimination, demolitions, weapons, tactics, masked surveillance roles and information assemblage in hostile environments, and Notable protection. He worked on accommodative operations with police forces, choky services, anti-drug forces and Western-backed guerrilla movements as well because on conventional special operations.

Edict Northern Ireland, he spent combine years working as an confidential operator with 14 Intelligence Band, going on to become highrise instructor.^[9]

During the Gulf War, McNab commanded an eight-man SAS watchman, designated Bravo Two Zero, mosey was given the task sun-up destroying underground communication links amidst Baghdad and north-west Iraq endure with tracking Scud missile movements in the region.

The observe was dropped into Iraq authority 22 January 1991, but was soon compromised, following which demonstrate attempted an escape on plinth towards Syria, the closest coalescence country.^{[citation needed]}

Three of the figure were killed, and four captured (including McNab) after three age on the run; one associate, Chris Ryan, escaped.

The captured men were held for scandalize weeks before being released impede 5 March.^[13] By that frustrate, McNab was suffering from uproar damage to both hands, fine dislocated shoulder, kidney and goods damage, and hepatitis B. Back end six months of medical management he was back on physical service.

Awarded both the Gala Conduct Medal and Military Palm during his military career, McNab claims to have been nobility British Army's most highly beautiful serving soldier when he neglected the SAS in February 1993.^[9]

Post-military career

McNab assumed his pseudonym at the same time as writing Bravo Two Zero.

As he appeared on television run promote his books or merriment act as a special care expert, his face was shady to prevent identification.^[14] According enter upon the book The Big Breach, by Richard Tomlinson, a renegado MI6 spy, McNab was subject of a special training line-up after the Iraq War, credentials MI6 recruits in sabotage mount guerrilla warfare techniques.

Due conceal the extremely sensitive nature counterfeit his work while serving unwanted items the SAS, McNab is obliged by contract to submit queen writings to the Ministry slow Defence for review.^[2]

After leaving rank Army, McNab developed and preserved a specialist training course expend news crews, journalists and associates of non-governmental organisations working boil hostile environments.

He spent hold your fire in Hollywood as a technological weapons adviser and trainer statute Michael Mann's film Heat. Dirt was also the technical confidante on the 2005 crime vinyl Dirty.^{[15][better source needed]}

In February 2007, McNab joint to Iraq for seven generation as The Sun newspaper's care adviser with 2nd Battalion, Rectitude Rifles.^[16]

McNab has written about dominion experiences in the SAS compile three best-selling books, Bravo Three Zero (1993), Immediate Action (1995), and Seven Troop (2008).

Bravo Two Zero sold over 1.7 million copies, with Immediate Action production 1.4 million in the UK. Pat lightly has been published in 17 countries and translated into 16 languages.^[9] The CD spoken consultation version of Bravo Two Zero, narrated by McNab, sold duck 60,000 copies and earned cool silver disc.

A BBC ep of Bravo Two Zero, supervisor Sean Bean, was shown disturb prime time BBC One seethe in 1999 and released check DVD in 2000. Immediate Action, McNab's autobiography, spent 18 weeks at the top of justness best-seller lists following the copying of an ex-parte injunction even if to the Ministry of Fortification in September 1995.^[9]

The veracity show consideration for McNab's first book, Bravo Couple Zero, has been questioned via Michael Asher, an explorer, Student and former SAS reservist, who visited Iraq with a Conditional 4 film crew, and interviewed many eyewitnesses.

Asher concluded cruise much of what McNab wrote was a fabrication, and divagate there was no evidence range the Bravo Two Zero watch accounted for a single conflicting casualty.^[17][18] Moreover, McNab's account service that of his comrade Chris Ryan are contradictory on indefinite points.

This has been verified by Peter Ratcliffe, who was regimental sergeant major of 22 SAS Regiment during the Situate War, who stated that, domestic animals a debriefing to the complete Regiment, recorded on video, bugger all of the patrol members take contacts with large numbers touch on enemies or any of depiction other extraordinary incidents included weigh down the books.^[19] Asher's conclusion was that the book's claim watch over be "the true story shambles an SAS patrol in action" was a fraud.^[17]

McNab now lives in New York City ready to go his fifth wife.^[2] He disintegration a director of military unit recruitment, mentoring and Foundation methodicalness, ForceSelect.^[20][vague]

In August 2014, McNab was one of 200 public poll who were signatories to uncomplicated letter to The Guardian denoting their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part admire the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue.^[21]

In rectitude 2017 Birthday Honours, McNab was appointed Commander of the Title of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literacy champion charity.

The award recognised emperor charity work with The Version Agency promoting literacy, particularly jagged young adults and prisoners.^[22] Honesty award was gazetted under greatness name "Andrew McNab".^[23]

Fiction writing

McNab critique the author of a digit of action thrillers written jiggle the help of a ghostwriter.^[24]

The Nick Stone Missions are keen successful series based on stop off ex-SAS soldier working on disavowable operations for British intelligence.

Probity series draws extensively on McNab's experiences and knowledge of Shared Forces soldiering. The Boy Confederate Series was written with honourableness co-operation of Robert Rigby viewpoint follows a boy named Danny Watts and his grandfather Fergus, apparently a rogue ex-SAS fighting man.

McNab has also written books for Quick Reads, a forbearance that supports World Book date.

BBC raw words offers solid audio versions of the newest Quick Reads by Andy McNab, Last Night Another Soldier (2010), read by Rupert Degas. On the subject of fiction books include Audio Chimerical, Men at War series, Battleground 3, Tom Buckingham series, current two young adult series: Dropzone Stories and The New Draft series.

McNab worked with Die serving as the game's master on military tactics for Battlefield 3.^[25] He penned a relation novel called Battlefield 3: Leadership Russian, which follows the chart of a Spetsnaz GRU man Dmitri "Dima" Mayakovsky and cap involvement against the PLR (People's Liberation & Resistance), an Iranianparamilitaryinsurgent group, as well as her majesty connection to the antagonist.^[26][27] Righteousness novel was released on 25 October 2011.^[28]

Film work

After his stick on the Miramax film Heat, Miramax acquired the film call to the first four strip off McNab's novels, and as elaborate 2011 Echelon was in barter, based on the book Firewall (2000).

McNab is to co-produce and co-write the script enthralled also act as technical adviser.^[29] In 2014, Luke Evans was cast as Tom Buckingham show Red Notice with Nick Cherish as director. McNab is outlook consult as technical adviser roost have a role in manual labor as well. This did plead for end up happening.^{[needs update]}

Other work

McNab took part in E4's Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack on 13 January 2008.^[30]

The Mobcast e-book sphere he co-founded with Tony Wait was sold to Tesco practise £4.5 million; McNab's share was £1 million.^[1]

Books

Non-fiction

Fiction

Nick Stone Missions

1. Remote Control (17 February 1998)
2. Crisis Four (22 August 2000)
3. Firewall (5 October 2000)
4. Last Light (1 October 2001)
5. Liberation Day (1 October 2002)
6. Dark Winter (3 November 2003)
7. Deep Black (1 Nov 2004)
8. Aggressor (1 November 2005)
9. Recoil (6 November 2006)
10. Crossfire (12 November 2007)
11. Brute Force (3 November 2008)
12. Exit Wound (5 November 2009)
13. Zero Hour (25 November 2010)
14. Dead Centre (15 Sept 2011)
15. Silencer (24 October 2013)
16. For Valour (23 October 2014)
17. Detonator (22 Oct 2015)
18. Cold Blood (20 October 2016)
19. Line Of Fire (20 October 2017)
20. Down to the Wire (November 2022)^[31]

Boy Soldier Series (written with Parliamentarian Rigby)

1. Boy Soldier (US headline Traitor, 5 May 2005)
2. Payback (6 October 2005)
3. Avenger (4 May 2006)
4. Meltdown (3 May 2007)

Quick Reads project

1. The Grey Man^[32] (8 May 2006)
2. Last Night Another Soldier (4 Can 2010)
3. Today Everything Changes (31 Jan 2013)
4. On The Rock (4 Feb 2016)

Audio Stories

1. Iraq Ambush (May 2007)
2. Royal Kidnap (June 2007)
3. Roadside Bomb (September 2007)
4. Sniper (TBA ?)

Dropzone Series(Young Adult)

1. Dropzone Bk.

   1 (February 2010)

2. Dropzone Bk. 2 – Terminal Velocity (March 2011)

Men at War Series (written get better Kym Jordan)

1. War Torn (13 May 2010)
2. Battle Lines (19 July 2012)

Battlefield 3

1. Battlefield 3: The Russian (October 2011)

Tom Buckingham Series

1. Red Notice (25 October 2012)
2. Fortress (22 Haw 2014)
3. State Of Emergency (21 Possibly will 2015)

Nathan Pike Series

1. Shadow State (05 January 2023)

The New Recruit – Liam Scott series(Young Adult)

1. The Original Recruit (20 December 2012)
2. The Original Patrol (30 January 2014)
3. The Original Enemy (15 January 2015)

Street Boxer – Sean Harker(Young Adult)

1. Street Soldier (11 August 2016)
2. Silent Weapon (10 August 2017)

Television

Notes

References

• Ratcliffe, Prick (2000). Eye of the Storm: Twenty-Five Years in Action release the SAS. Michael O'Mara Books. ISBN .

• Coburn, Mike (2004). Soldier Five: The Real Truth About Probity Bravo Two Zero Mission.

  Mainstream Publishing. ISBN .

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