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ANDY MCNAB, DCM MM
Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was 'badged' as a member of 22 SAS, and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide.
During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, "will remain in regimental history forever."
Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and the Military Medal (MM), McNab was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier at the time that he left the SAS in February 1993.
He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal number one bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero (1993), which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, for which he wrote the screenplay, and Immediate Action (1995).
He is also the author of four number one international bestselling novels, Remote Control (1997), Crisis Four (1999), Firewall (2000) and Last Light (2001). His fifth, Liberation Day, has just been published (October 2002) and reached the No.1 slot in The Sunday Times Bestseller List. Sales of his books to date exceed 5 million copies, in fifteen languages.
"The best suspense writer to put pen to paper since Alistair MacLean" (Stephen Coonts) Andy McNab "delivers authenticity in spades" (Publishers Weekly). "McNab's greatest asset," according to London's Sunday Times, "is that the heart of his fiction is not fiction: other thriller writers do their research, but he has actually been there."
Crisis Four is currently being developed as a major motion picture by Miramax, the first of a planned series
featuring McNab's ex-SAS operator hero, Nick Stone.
Andy McNab has been commissioned by Rage to produce SAS and Intelligence-based interactive games for a variety of different platforms, and is currently developing a series of films for the BBC.
He has broadcast regularly on military, defence, security and intelligence matters on CNN, ITV, and BBC TV and radio. He has written regularly for The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday, The Mirror, The Sun and The News of the World. He lectures to police, security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and the UK. He is the only writer in the world whose books are so sensitive that even his fiction requires vetting by the British Ministry of Defence. For security reasons, Andy McNab's appearance and location cannot be revealed.
Praise for Bravo Two Zero:
"The night marches over the desert, with the icy wind howling, snow driving down, and the lights of hostile vehicles flickering in the distance - all this comes sharply to life."
Daily Telegraph
"Without doubt the best account yet of the SAS in action… a classic war story."
Sunday Times
"Superhuman endurance, horrendous torture, desperate odds - unparalleled revelations from the secrecy-shrouded SAS hero."
Daily Mail
"One of the most extraordinary examples of human courage and survival in modern warfare."
The Times
Praise for Firewall:
"A sweet one. McNab writes like a dream... Throat-clutching action, authentic scenarios, spectacular precision. Death zings its old sweet song as slugs sing off your Kevlar." Kirkus Reviews
"In many ways, Stone is the perfect thriller hero... In this genre, all plans are made to fail, except perhaps McNab's plan to take the thriller world by storm."
Publishers Weekly
"Explodes like a stun grenade... a story that's as real as fiction can be. McNab has hit the target again and makes Clancy look like a Sunday school teacher who moonlights as an adventure writer."
Colonel David H. Hackworth, author of About Face and The Price of Honor
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