Andy McNab

Andy McNab is the pen name of a former British Army soldier who served with the Royal Green Jackets before being badged into 22 SAS Regiment in 1984, working on covert and overt special operations worldwide for a decade, including in the Middle East, Central America and Northern Ireland.

He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Military Medal, and left the army in February 1993 as its most highly decorated serving soldier.

His account of leading the Bravo Two Zero patrol behind Iraqi lines during the 1991 Gulf War, published as Bravo Two Zero (1993), became the UK's best-selling war memoir; his account of his earlier army career, Immediate Action, followed in 1995.

He has since written the Nick Stone series of thrillers and other fiction and non-fiction, lectures on security and hostage survival, and is a patron of the veterans' charity Help for Heroes. He writes under a pseudonym and appears in public with his identity obscured, and remains required to submit his manuscripts to the Ministry of Defence for clearance.