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|placeofbirth Southwark London England |image |nickname |allegiance |serviceyears 1976–1993 |rank Sergeant#United Kingdom |branch Image:Flag of the British Army.svg British Army |unit Special Air Service
*Bravo Two Zero lt;br/> Royal Green Jackets |battles The Troubles lt;br/>Gulf War |awards Distinguished Conduct Medal lt;br/>Military Medal |laterwork author }} Andy McNab Distinguished Conduct Medal Military Medal (born 28 December 1959) is the pseudonym lt;ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/andy-mcnab-the-hidden-face-of-war-533714.html Hanks, Robert "Andy McNab: The hidden face of war" The Independent Nov 19, 2004] of an England novelist and former Special Air Service soldier. McNab came into public prominence in 1993, when he published his account of the failed Special Air Service (SAS) patrol, Bravo Two Zero for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1991.http://www.robmcgibbon.com/resources/pcw_andy_mcnab.pdf McGibbon, Rob, 2005 The Press Conference with Andy McNab] He had previously received the [[Military Medal]] in 1980, awarded for an action whilst serving with the [[Royal Green Jackets]] in [[Northern Ireland]] during 1979.[http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/irish_news/arts2005/aug1_McNab_1979_killing.php Stinson, James cNab tells of killing IRA man in 1979 gun battle Irish News 1 August 2005] In addition to [[Bravo Two Zero (1993 novel)|Bravo Two Zero]]he has written two other autobiographies and a number of fiction books.

Early life

McNab was born on 28 December 1959. Found abandoned on the steps of Guy's Hospital in London Borough of Southwark He was brought up in Peckham with his adoptive family. He did not do well in school and started just doing odd jobs, usually for friends and relatives, and was partly inspired to join the British Army because of his brothers time in the army. He was involved in petty criminality until being arrested for burglary. In 1976, shortly after his arrest, he aspired to a career as an army pilot, but failed the entry test. In the same year, he enlisted with the Royal Green Jackets at the age of sixteen.http://www.andymcnab.co.uk/bio.php Biography | Andy McNab Official Website]

Military career

After McNab enlisted in the Royal Green Jackets he was posted to Kent for his basic training, and boxed for his regimental team. After his basic training, he was posted to the Rifle Depot, in Winchester In 1977, McNab spent time in Gibraltar as part of his first operational posting, while with 2RGJ. From December 1977 to June 1978, he was posted to South Armagh Northern Ireland as part of the British Army s Operation Banner . In 1978 and 1979, he returned to Armagh as a newly promoted Lance Corporal#United Kingdom and claimed to have killed for the first time during a firefight with the Provisional Irish Republican Army McNab wrote of the incident: "I remember vividly the first time I had to kill someone to stay alive. I was a 19-year-old soldier in Keady, south Armagh, and my patrol stumbled across six IRA terrorists preparing for an ambush. When the shooting started they were just 20 metres away from my patrol. I was scared, very scared."lt;ref name"nuzhound.com" /> McNab was awarded the Military Medal for this incident. However, security sources later claimed that the person McNab shot was only wounded and died as a result of injuries from a separate shootout later that day. In 1982, after spending eight years with the Royal Green Jackets, he decided to attempt SAS United Kingdom Special Forces Selection Having failed his first attempt he finally passed in 1984, and transferred to the SAS. While serving with Air Troop, B Squadron, 22 SAS for ten years, McNab worked on both Covert operation and overt operations worldwide., which included counter terrorism and drug operations in the Middle East and Far East South America and Central America and Northern Ireland McNab trained as a specialist in counter terrorism, prime target elimination, demolitions, weapons, tactics, covert surveillance roles and information gathering in hostile environments, and Very Important Person protection. He worked on cooperative operations with police forces, prison services, anti-drug forces and Western world backed Guerrilla tactics movements as well as on conventional special operations. In Northern Ireland, he spent two years working as an undercover operator with 14 Intelligence Company going on to become an instructor. During the Gulf War McNab commanded Bravo Two Zero, an eight man SAS patrol that was given the task of destroying underground communication links between Baghdad and north-west Iraq and with tracking Scud missile movements in the region. The patrol was dropped into Iraq on 22 January 1991, but was soon compromised, escaping on foot towards Syria the closest Coalition of the Gulf War country. Three of the eight men were killed; four were captured (including McNab) after three days on the run and one member, Chris Ryan , escaped. The four captured men were held for six weeks before being released on 5 March. By the time he was released McNab was suffering from nerve damage to both hands, a dislocated shoulder, kidney and liver damage and hepatitis B After six months of medical treatment he was back on active service. In the words of the SASs commanding officer, the story of the patrol "will remain in Regimental history forever". Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab claims to have been the British Armys most highly decorated serving soldier when he left the SAS in February 1993.http://www.andymcnab.co.uk/bio.php?p2 Biography | Andy McNab Official Website]

Post military career

While writing Bravo Two Zero McNab assumed his pseudonym. When he appears on television to promote his books or to act as a special services expert, his face is shadowed to prevent identification. As Larry King put it when McNab appeared on the [[Larry King Live]]show on CNN "We have Andy in shadows. Hes wanted by terrorist groups."lt;/ref> According to the book The Big Breach by Richard Tomlinson a renegade MI6 spy, McNab was part of a special training team after the Iraq war, training MI6 recruits in sabotage and guerrilla warfare techniques. Due to the extremely sensitive nature of his work while serving with the SAS, McNab has a legally binding contract obliging him to submit his writings to the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) for review. He is still believed to be wanted by a number of the worlds terrorist organisations; he therefore chooses not to reveal either his face or his current location.lt;/ref> After leaving the Army, McNab developed and maintained a specialist training course for news crews, journalists and members of non-governmental organisations working in hostile environments. He spent time in Hollywood as technical weapons advisor, and trainer on the Michael Mann (film director) film [[Heat (1995 film)|Heat]],helping to engineer how the master-thief played by Robert De Niro would go about pulling off robberies on an armoured car and a bank, and how policeman Al Pacino would go about tracking him down and stopping him. He was also the technical advisor on the 2005 crime film [[Dirty (film)|Dirty]]http://www.andymcnab.co.uk/bio.php?p4 Biography | Andy McNab Official Website] In February 2007, McNab returned to Iraq for seven days as [[The Sun (newspaper)|The Sun]]newspapers security advisor with his old regiment the Royal Green Jackets. Here he researched the background for his new book, Crossfirehttp://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,2-2007110295,00.html Hero McNab goes back to Iraq The Sun retrieved 27 February 2008 McNab has written about his experiences in the SAS in three bestselling books, Bravo Two Zero(1993), [[Immediate Action (book)|Immediate Action]](1995) and [[Seven Troop (book)|Seven Troop]](2008). Bravo Two Zerois the highest selling war book of all time, and sold over 1.7 million copies, with Immediate Actionselling 1.4 million in the UK. To dateit has been published in 17 countries and translated into 16 languages. The CD spoken word version of Bravo Two Zero narrated by McNab, sold over 60,000 copies and earned a silver disc. A BBC film of [[Bravo Two Zero (film)|Bravo Two Zero]] starring Sean Bean was shown on prime time BBC One television in 1999 and released on DVD in 2000. Immediate Action McNabs autobiography, spent 18 weeks at the top of the best-seller lists following the lifting of an ex-parteinjunction granted to the Ministry of Defence in September 1995.

Fiction writing

McNab is the author of a number of action thrillers. A series of twelve successful books are based on the Nick Stone (Andy McNab character) - an ex-SAS soldier working on deniable operations for British intelligence. The series draws extensively on McNabs experiences and knowledge of Special Forces soldiering. He has been officially registered by Nielsen BookScan as a bestselling British thriller writer. The Boy Soldier Series was written with the cooperation of Robert Rigby and follows a boy named Danny Watts and his grandfather Fergus, apparently a rogue ex-Special Air Service soldier. Andy McNab has also written two books for Quick Reads a charity that supports World Book day, "The Grey Man"and "Last Night Another Soldier" BBC raw words offers exclusive audio versions of the latest Quick Reads by Andy McNab Last Night Another Soldier read by Rupert Degas.

Film work

After working on the Miramax film, Heat Miramax has acquired the film rights to the first four of McNabs novels, and Echelonis currentlyin production, based on the book Firewalland co-produced by McNab himself. He was also a director of a Hereford based security company. In conjunction with Spoken Group Ltd, Andy McNab is pioneering spoken drama for download from the Internet and to mobile phone .These stories include real battle field sound effects. McNab took part in E4 (channel) s [[Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack]]on 13 January 2008.http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/celebrity_big_brother_hijack/article683012.ece The Sun: Behind scenes at SAS hijacking!]

Current

He now lives in NorfolkAccessVideos interview with Rob McGibbon 2008 (part 1) and lectures on security and military related topics, in both the USA and the UK.

Books

Non-fiction

*[[Bravo Two Zero (1993 novel)|Bravo Two Zero]](1993) *[[Immediate Action (book)|Immediate Action]](1995) *[[Seven Troop (book)|Seven Troop]](2008) *[[Spoken From The Front (2009)]]

Fiction

[[Nick Stone (Andy McNab character)|Nick Stone]] Missions *[[Remote Control (novel)|Remote Control]](17 February 1998) *[[Crisis Four]](22 August 2000) *[[Firewall (Andy McNab novel)|Firewall]](5 October 2000) *[[Last Light (novel)|Last Light]] (1 October 2001) *[[Liberation Day (novel)|Liberation Day]](1 October 2002) *[[Dark Winter (novel)|Dark Winter]](3 November 2003) *[[Deep Black]](1 November 2004) *[[Aggressor (novel)|Aggressor]](1 November 2005) *[[Recoil (novel)|Recoil]](6 November 2006) *[[Crossfire (2007 novel)|Crossfire]](12 November 2007) *Brute Force(3 November 2008) *Exit Wound (5 November 2009) *Zero Hour (25 November 2010) [[Boy Soldier Series]] (written with Robert Rigby *Boy Soldier(US title Traitor 5 May 2005) *Traitor *ayback (6 October 2005) *venger (4 May 2006) *eltdown (3 May 2007) Quick Reads project *The Grey Man http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/series/quick-reads/grey-man.htm The Grey Man (Quick Reads 2006) by Andy McNab] (8 May 2006) *Last Night Another Soldier (4 May 2010) Audio Stories *Iraq Ambush(May 2007) *Royal Kidnap(June 2007) *Roadside Bomb(September 2007) *Sniper(TBA ?) Dropzone Series *Dropzone Bk. 1(February 2010) *Dropzone Bk. 2 - Terminal Velocity (March 2011) ==Television== * Andy McNabs Tour of Duty]] ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==References== *{{cite book | last = Peter | first = Ratcliffe | title = Eye of the Storm: Twenty-Five Years in Action with the SAS | year = 2000 | publisher = Michael OMara Books | isbn = 978-1854798091 }} *{{cite book | last = Asher | first = Michael | title = The Real Bravo Two Zero: The Truth Behind Bravo Two Zero | year = 2002 | publisher = Cassell Military | isbn = 978-0304365548 }} *{{cite book | last = Coburn | first = Mike | title = Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission | year = 2004 | publisher = Mainstream Publishing | isbn = 978-1840189070 }} ==External links== * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_week/5132536.stm Essay for BBC This Week programme] * * http://www.bbc.co.uk/raw/words/quickreads/ BBC raw words - Quick Reads] Category:Special Air Service soldiers Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:British adoptees Category:British novelists Category:British non-fiction writers Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Conduct Medal Category:Recipients of the Military Medal Category:Royal Green Jackets soldiers Category:People from Southwark Category:Gulf War prisoners of war Category:British prisoners of war Category:British Army personnel of the Gulf War cs:Andy McNab da:Andy McNab de:Andy McNab es:Andy McNab fr:Andy McNab it:Andy McNab he:אנדי מקנב hu:Andy McNab nl:Andy McNab no:Andy McNab pl:Andy McNab ru:Энди Макнаб fi:Andy McNab sv:Andy McNab