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The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.
It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.
A group of aid workers have been kidnapped by local insurgents and are now hidden in a winding mountain region. After attempts to negotiate a deal with the bandits fail, and with the lives of the hostages hanging in the balance, there is only option...
SAS and Navy SEALs are sent in to find and free them.
The Rescue is the action-packed story of the special forces' attempts to save the hostages from almost certain death. Drawing on classified sources and using his own personal insight into the inner-workings of these units, Andy McNab gives a thrilling account of this incredible mission.
A heart-pounding true story of covert scouting missions, dangerous parachute jumps and fighting to survive in the face of impossible odds, this is the SAS like you've never heard before.
It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.
A group of aid workers have been kidnapped by local insurgents and are now hidden in a winding mountain region. After attempts to negotiate a deal with the bandits fail, and with the lives of the hostages hanging in the balance, there is only option...
SAS and Navy SEALs are sent in to find and free them.
The Rescue is the action-packed story of the special forces' attempts to save the hostages from almost certain death. Drawing on classified sources and using his own personal insight into the inner-workings of these units, Andy McNab gives a thrilling account of this incredible mission.
A heart-pounding true story of covert scouting missions, dangerous parachute jumps and fighting to survive in the face of impossible odds, this is the SAS like you've never heard before.
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Andy McNab
205 books1,160 followersAndy McNab joined the infantry in 1976 as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was badged as a member of 22 SAS Regiment. He served in B Squadron 22 SAS for ten years and worked on both covert and overt special operations worldwide, including anti-terrorist and anti-drug operations in the Middle and Far East, South and Central America and Northern Ireland.
Trained as a specialist in counter terrorism, prime target elimination, demolitions, weapons and tactics, covert surveillance and information gathering in hostile environments, and VIP protection, McNab worked on cooperative operations with police forces, prison services, anti-drug forces and western backed guerrilla movements as well as on conventional special operations. In Northern Ireland he spent two years working as an undercover operator with 14th Intelligence Group, going on to become an instructor.
McNab also worked as an instructor on the SAS selection and training team and instructed foreign special forces in counter terrorism, hostage rescue and survival training.
Andy McNab has written about his experiences in the SAS in two bestselling books, Bravo Two Zero (1993) and Immediate Action (1995). Bravo Two Zero is the highest selling war book of all time and has sold over 1.7 million copies in the UK. To date it 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. The BBC's film of Bravo Two Zero, starring Sean Bean, was shown on primetime BBC 1 television in 1999 and released on DVD in 2000.
Immediate Action, McNab's autobiography, spent 18 weeks at the top of the bestseller lists following the lifting on an ex-parte injunction granted to the Ministry of Defence in September 1995. To date, Immediate Action has now sold over 1.4 million copies in the UK.
McNab is the author of seven fast action thrillers, highly acclaimed for their authenticity and all Sunday Times bestsellers. Published in 1997, Remote Control was hailed as the most authentic thriller ever written and has sold over half a million copies in the UK. McNab's subsequent thrillers, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light , Liberation Day , Dark Winter , Deep Black and Aggressor have all gone on to sell equally well. The central character in all the books is Nick Stone, a tough ex-SAS operative working as a 'K' on deniable operations for British Intelligence.
McNab's fiction draws extensively on his experiences and knowledge of Special Forces soldiering. He has been officially registered by Neilsen Bookscan as the bestselling British thriller writer of the last year.
Trained as a specialist in counter terrorism, prime target elimination, demolitions, weapons and tactics, covert surveillance and information gathering in hostile environments, and VIP protection, McNab worked on cooperative operations with police forces, prison services, anti-drug forces and western backed guerrilla movements as well as on conventional special operations. In Northern Ireland he spent two years working as an undercover operator with 14th Intelligence Group, going on to become an instructor.
McNab also worked as an instructor on the SAS selection and training team and instructed foreign special forces in counter terrorism, hostage rescue and survival training.
Andy McNab has written about his experiences in the SAS in two bestselling books, Bravo Two Zero (1993) and Immediate Action (1995). Bravo Two Zero is the highest selling war book of all time and has sold over 1.7 million copies in the UK. To date it 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. The BBC's film of Bravo Two Zero, starring Sean Bean, was shown on primetime BBC 1 television in 1999 and released on DVD in 2000.
Immediate Action, McNab's autobiography, spent 18 weeks at the top of the bestseller lists following the lifting on an ex-parte injunction granted to the Ministry of Defence in September 1995. To date, Immediate Action has now sold over 1.4 million copies in the UK.
McNab is the author of seven fast action thrillers, highly acclaimed for their authenticity and all Sunday Times bestsellers. Published in 1997, Remote Control was hailed as the most authentic thriller ever written and has sold over half a million copies in the UK. McNab's subsequent thrillers, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light , Liberation Day , Dark Winter , Deep Black and Aggressor have all gone on to sell equally well. The central character in all the books is Nick Stone, a tough ex-SAS operative working as a 'K' on deniable operations for British Intelligence.
McNab's fiction draws extensively on his experiences and knowledge of Special Forces soldiering. He has been officially registered by Neilsen Bookscan as the bestselling British thriller writer of the last year.
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September 15, 2023
With McNab you know what you're in for, no messing about.
This is the dramatised true account of a rescue mission by the SAS and US Navy SEALS to save four aid workers.
They were seized by bandits in hostile, mountainous terrain in Northern Afghanistan in 2012.
But as ransom negotiations drag on, the kidnappers decide to cut their losses and sell the prisoners to Taliban terrorists. Now the clock is ticking.
An alphabet of lethal military kit from Apache to Warthog, this vivid story is rich in detail on high-tech weapons, tactics and the hard-as-nails guys who use them.
This is the dramatised true account of a rescue mission by the SAS and US Navy SEALS to save four aid workers.
They were seized by bandits in hostile, mountainous terrain in Northern Afghanistan in 2012.
But as ransom negotiations drag on, the kidnappers decide to cut their losses and sell the prisoners to Taliban terrorists. Now the clock is ticking.
An alphabet of lethal military kit from Apache to Warthog, this vivid story is rich in detail on high-tech weapons, tactics and the hard-as-nails guys who use them.
November 2, 2023
Perfect! Hopefully Jack Carr is taking notice...
December 27, 2023
The book titled “The Rescue” by Andy McNab is one of the book in the series describing the various special operations missions, the first one being “The Hunt” published in 2022. As the title indicates, the book (“The Rescue”) describes in immaculate detail about two rescue missions carried out about a decade back in Afghanistan. In one of the chapters, the author references the bureaucrat from UK mentioning about the British PM accompanying the Qatari Royal family in Oxfordshire. There was one such even in the spring of 2011. So these missions mentioned in the book happened about 12 years back. The author of the book has adopted a thriller style narration in the book and description of the details of the characters and the situation are exemplary. The author claims that all the details documented in the book are what actually happened (no more or no less) and of course all names and identities are changed to protect the actual people.
Steven Billy Mitchell usually known by the pseudonym Andy McNab was a former special air service soldier. He was born in 1959. After working odd jobs and even getting arrested once for a petty criminality, he joined the Royal Green Jackets in 1976. He passed his UK special forces selection in 1984 and was attached to SAS where he spent the rest of his military career. During the gulf war, McNab commanded eight-man SAS patrol given the task of destroying the communication links between Baghdad and Northern Iraq. He was dropped into Iraq in 1991 but was soon compromised. Three men dies, four including McNab was captured, while one man escaped. When he was finally released after six weeks, he suffered from nerve damage, dislocated shoulder and Hepatitis. He went on to write his first novel “Bravo Two Zero” based on experience. He started getting public prominence post publishing of his book “Bravo Two Zero”.
The story starts in a Korengal (nick named “Valley of Death” by American soldiers due to the brutal fighting of the war and the deaths associated) valley where two Apache attack helicopters and two CH-47 Chinooks operated by 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment were enroute to a rescue mission. Sergeant Harry Allen, born in Stirling, Scotland and a member of SAS is onboard along with 50 other men from SAS, SBS and DevGRU (Development Group, US elite special forces team). The mission was a “Deliberate Option”, a term used by Brits for coordinated planned attack to rescue an aid worker captured by Taliban. The author at this point, goes into the details of how the elite units prepare themselves for the mission, right from drilling the image of the adversaries and the hostages to their minds to what goes through the individuals mind and what to expect during these missions. There were two building and the forces split themselves into two assault teams and sweeps through the two buildings to find a tunnel in one of the buildings. While some men push through the tunnels, Alex Banks the leader of the mission brought Team One to sweep through the building compound to look for tunnel exits. Allen and Miller move to the right side of the building looking for the exit. They will spot few men escorting the hostage out of a hole from the ground and a fight will ensue. During the gun fight, the aid worker that was taken hostage will take a hit from a fragmentation grenade thrown by a Navy Seal and she will succumb to her injury resulting in the failure of the mission. The author describes every minute details of gun fight and how the officers try to revive the hostage post injury.
The story moves to Badakshan province (near to the border of Tajikistan, Pakistan and China) where a British NGO worker Laura Jones along with two Afghan ladies Tasneem and Zahab and a Kenyan lady, Adele were trained as midwifes and working to reduce child mortality in Afghanistan. When the ladies were moving from one village to another on mule, a local warlord Sherali and his team will capture the other ladies to try and demand ransom from British government to return the ladies back to their governments. The author introduces Umid a local boy from Fayzabad, whose father would have fought the Soviet invaders. The author brings out the details of the politics and culture of an Afghani at that time. Umid will be considering joining the Taliban or the Afghan Republic forces as he thought the job will feed him and provide money. But his father will be unwilling as he does not want his son to be part of the ongoing war. Umid will finally convince his father to allow him to join a local warlord, under the condition that if the warlord is bought by Taliban or the Afghan Republic forces, he will quit and come back. Umid was part of the team that captures and kidnaps Laura. Sherali and his team (of about 2 dozen people) will take the hostages to a cave. The author then goes into the details of how the caves were used by the local warlords during the fight with Soviets. This is when Federico Vasquez and Rachael Powell are introduced by the author. Fade is a CIA agent while Rachael will be from British Secret Service. The author brings out the camaraderie of both agencies and special forces of US and UK working together to execute various missions. When it is so difficult to achieve coordination between the army, air force and navy of the same country in the present day, the special forces and the intelligence agencies of both the countries were coordinating well even back then. Prior Laura Jones, Allen along with Mohammed (a.k.a. ‘Mo’) will go to Kandahar on a recce mission. The author brings out the spycraft in Allen and Mo who will dress up as local Afghani to venture to gather details about the location of Siddiqi, a local Taliban commander. Later that night, Allen and his team will go on a capture or kill Siddiqi mission and will end up capturing him at wee hours.
The story then moves to Badakshan when Laura Jones and the other ladies were captured by local warlord Sherali and his team for ransom ($7 million and release of Jallah, one of the prisoners in Bagram). Sherali had made a call to Afghan government with the video of the captured ladies demanding a ransom for their release. The intelligence team would have triangulated the signal to a location from where the call originated and Predator drones will be set in motion for recce. Allen and few other special forces team will be enroute to Bagram base awaiting further details about their next mission. This mission seemed different to Allen because he normally gets some details about the mission, but this time, there was nothing. In Bagram, Alex Banks emerges into the scene again. The teams will be briefed about the detail of why they were there while the details of the mission were being worked out. From this point on, the story oscillates between what happens in the cave and how the special forces go about this mission in Bagram base.
In the cave, Umid will develop a liking for Sherali and he sees him as a father figure. He will also develop an emotional bond with Tasneem one of the older ladies that were captured. Sherali was frustrated as there was no development in talks with the Afghan government and he will feel that there were stalling. To force them to come to accept their demands, Sherali will ask Umid to kill Tasneem. It was a moment of reckoning for Umid as he has never killed a person. He musters his will and triggers his gun while another member Daler was shooting the scene on his mobile. When Umid pulled the trigger, he could only hear a click and no shots were fired. Sherali had given a gun with empty magazine to Umid to test if he will act when the moment comes. The captured video will be send to Afghan government as threat. On the other side, using predators and the new call, the special forces team will be able to geolocate the call. A plan was devised where Allen and Alex will be parachuted to a hill nearby to that cave. They will accumulate intelligence to ascertain if the hostages are there at the location and the recce of the location. Three teams will be stationed at Fayzabad awaiting confirmation of their mission based on the inputs that will be received from Allen and Alex. Sherali, given the delay will decide to handover the ladies to Roshan Shah, a local Taliban leader for a good amount of money. Since he did not trust Roshan, Sherali will ask Umid and few other members to take two other ladies into another cave, while Sherali will wait for Roshan Shah with the Afghan women in the original cave. The book then goes into the detailed planning, intelligence gathering and how the special forces went about the mission to attack and rescue the aid workers from Sherali’s team.
Andy McNab’s “The Rescue” adds to collection of books that enable us to understand how missions are planned and executed, the mindset of the perpetrators, victim and the special forces men who undertake the missions, the play of politics and external factors and finally a window into different capabilities of the special forces and their challenges.
Steven Billy Mitchell usually known by the pseudonym Andy McNab was a former special air service soldier. He was born in 1959. After working odd jobs and even getting arrested once for a petty criminality, he joined the Royal Green Jackets in 1976. He passed his UK special forces selection in 1984 and was attached to SAS where he spent the rest of his military career. During the gulf war, McNab commanded eight-man SAS patrol given the task of destroying the communication links between Baghdad and Northern Iraq. He was dropped into Iraq in 1991 but was soon compromised. Three men dies, four including McNab was captured, while one man escaped. When he was finally released after six weeks, he suffered from nerve damage, dislocated shoulder and Hepatitis. He went on to write his first novel “Bravo Two Zero” based on experience. He started getting public prominence post publishing of his book “Bravo Two Zero”.
The story starts in a Korengal (nick named “Valley of Death” by American soldiers due to the brutal fighting of the war and the deaths associated) valley where two Apache attack helicopters and two CH-47 Chinooks operated by 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment were enroute to a rescue mission. Sergeant Harry Allen, born in Stirling, Scotland and a member of SAS is onboard along with 50 other men from SAS, SBS and DevGRU (Development Group, US elite special forces team). The mission was a “Deliberate Option”, a term used by Brits for coordinated planned attack to rescue an aid worker captured by Taliban. The author at this point, goes into the details of how the elite units prepare themselves for the mission, right from drilling the image of the adversaries and the hostages to their minds to what goes through the individuals mind and what to expect during these missions. There were two building and the forces split themselves into two assault teams and sweeps through the two buildings to find a tunnel in one of the buildings. While some men push through the tunnels, Alex Banks the leader of the mission brought Team One to sweep through the building compound to look for tunnel exits. Allen and Miller move to the right side of the building looking for the exit. They will spot few men escorting the hostage out of a hole from the ground and a fight will ensue. During the gun fight, the aid worker that was taken hostage will take a hit from a fragmentation grenade thrown by a Navy Seal and she will succumb to her injury resulting in the failure of the mission. The author describes every minute details of gun fight and how the officers try to revive the hostage post injury.
The story moves to Badakshan province (near to the border of Tajikistan, Pakistan and China) where a British NGO worker Laura Jones along with two Afghan ladies Tasneem and Zahab and a Kenyan lady, Adele were trained as midwifes and working to reduce child mortality in Afghanistan. When the ladies were moving from one village to another on mule, a local warlord Sherali and his team will capture the other ladies to try and demand ransom from British government to return the ladies back to their governments. The author introduces Umid a local boy from Fayzabad, whose father would have fought the Soviet invaders. The author brings out the details of the politics and culture of an Afghani at that time. Umid will be considering joining the Taliban or the Afghan Republic forces as he thought the job will feed him and provide money. But his father will be unwilling as he does not want his son to be part of the ongoing war. Umid will finally convince his father to allow him to join a local warlord, under the condition that if the warlord is bought by Taliban or the Afghan Republic forces, he will quit and come back. Umid was part of the team that captures and kidnaps Laura. Sherali and his team (of about 2 dozen people) will take the hostages to a cave. The author then goes into the details of how the caves were used by the local warlords during the fight with Soviets. This is when Federico Vasquez and Rachael Powell are introduced by the author. Fade is a CIA agent while Rachael will be from British Secret Service. The author brings out the camaraderie of both agencies and special forces of US and UK working together to execute various missions. When it is so difficult to achieve coordination between the army, air force and navy of the same country in the present day, the special forces and the intelligence agencies of both the countries were coordinating well even back then. Prior Laura Jones, Allen along with Mohammed (a.k.a. ‘Mo’) will go to Kandahar on a recce mission. The author brings out the spycraft in Allen and Mo who will dress up as local Afghani to venture to gather details about the location of Siddiqi, a local Taliban commander. Later that night, Allen and his team will go on a capture or kill Siddiqi mission and will end up capturing him at wee hours.
The story then moves to Badakshan when Laura Jones and the other ladies were captured by local warlord Sherali and his team for ransom ($7 million and release of Jallah, one of the prisoners in Bagram). Sherali had made a call to Afghan government with the video of the captured ladies demanding a ransom for their release. The intelligence team would have triangulated the signal to a location from where the call originated and Predator drones will be set in motion for recce. Allen and few other special forces team will be enroute to Bagram base awaiting further details about their next mission. This mission seemed different to Allen because he normally gets some details about the mission, but this time, there was nothing. In Bagram, Alex Banks emerges into the scene again. The teams will be briefed about the detail of why they were there while the details of the mission were being worked out. From this point on, the story oscillates between what happens in the cave and how the special forces go about this mission in Bagram base.
In the cave, Umid will develop a liking for Sherali and he sees him as a father figure. He will also develop an emotional bond with Tasneem one of the older ladies that were captured. Sherali was frustrated as there was no development in talks with the Afghan government and he will feel that there were stalling. To force them to come to accept their demands, Sherali will ask Umid to kill Tasneem. It was a moment of reckoning for Umid as he has never killed a person. He musters his will and triggers his gun while another member Daler was shooting the scene on his mobile. When Umid pulled the trigger, he could only hear a click and no shots were fired. Sherali had given a gun with empty magazine to Umid to test if he will act when the moment comes. The captured video will be send to Afghan government as threat. On the other side, using predators and the new call, the special forces team will be able to geolocate the call. A plan was devised where Allen and Alex will be parachuted to a hill nearby to that cave. They will accumulate intelligence to ascertain if the hostages are there at the location and the recce of the location. Three teams will be stationed at Fayzabad awaiting confirmation of their mission based on the inputs that will be received from Allen and Alex. Sherali, given the delay will decide to handover the ladies to Roshan Shah, a local Taliban leader for a good amount of money. Since he did not trust Roshan, Sherali will ask Umid and few other members to take two other ladies into another cave, while Sherali will wait for Roshan Shah with the Afghan women in the original cave. The book then goes into the detailed planning, intelligence gathering and how the special forces went about the mission to attack and rescue the aid workers from Sherali’s team.
Andy McNab’s “The Rescue” adds to collection of books that enable us to understand how missions are planned and executed, the mindset of the perpetrators, victim and the special forces men who undertake the missions, the play of politics and external factors and finally a window into different capabilities of the special forces and their challenges.
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November 23, 2023
Honestly this new series of Andy Mc Nab is crazy, you can really see his background in the SAS shine in his books and this one is no different it had me gripped from the get go. Reading this book and his prev from the series really puts you in the get up and get on with it mindset which i really like basically another great book from a very talented Author.
October 21, 2024
I've got to admit that going in I wasn't really expecting to enjoy this a lot. I've read books of his in the past, mostly the YA ones but also Bravo Two Zero. From the short blurb I thought this sounded like it would be alright, but also a fairly quick, easy read - important as I wanted to return the book before I checked out of the hotel in 3 days.
I was right in one case - the text is large and we'll-spaced, and I read the book easily in two days. On the other point I was wrong, as I found myself enjoying the book by the end much more than I expected.
When the actions begins, it's entertainingly told. Despite any other faults, McNab does know how to write believable action (unsurprisingly, given his history), and he can get the adrenaline pumping. Prior to that, however, I found the writing to be a little lacking, and there were a few instances where things were repeated or phrased badly. I'm not sure if this was intentional, assuming that the target audience won't pick everything the first time round, or just bad editing, but it did make me question.
It also surprised me in it's truthfulness. I was expecting more of a rose-tinted affair, but McNab acknowledges some of the difficulties of War, and even highlights some of the murkier areas. Obviously, he paints the soldiers themselves in a good light, but also admits to some of their faults, too. It's not exactly a confessional, but it's more honest than I expected. There's also some POV from the Afghan side, which was an interesting inclusion.
The introduction did make me laugh a but - the author stating that the story is true, although names, places, characters and events have been changed "to prevent the enemy from gathering information". Right Andy, I'm sure the Taliban are queuing at WH Smith's for your hardcovers. What remains I assume is true somewhat, again given his career, but it's interesting that so much has been changed.
An okay read, especially if you like action/warfare. For a couple days at the beach it's great, but it wasn't as good as I remember Bravo Two Zero being - perhaps the disclaimer made it feel less real to me, and so less impressive. But still alright.
I was right in one case - the text is large and we'll-spaced, and I read the book easily in two days. On the other point I was wrong, as I found myself enjoying the book by the end much more than I expected.
When the actions begins, it's entertainingly told. Despite any other faults, McNab does know how to write believable action (unsurprisingly, given his history), and he can get the adrenaline pumping. Prior to that, however, I found the writing to be a little lacking, and there were a few instances where things were repeated or phrased badly. I'm not sure if this was intentional, assuming that the target audience won't pick everything the first time round, or just bad editing, but it did make me question.
It also surprised me in it's truthfulness. I was expecting more of a rose-tinted affair, but McNab acknowledges some of the difficulties of War, and even highlights some of the murkier areas. Obviously, he paints the soldiers themselves in a good light, but also admits to some of their faults, too. It's not exactly a confessional, but it's more honest than I expected. There's also some POV from the Afghan side, which was an interesting inclusion.
The introduction did make me laugh a but - the author stating that the story is true, although names, places, characters and events have been changed "to prevent the enemy from gathering information". Right Andy, I'm sure the Taliban are queuing at WH Smith's for your hardcovers. What remains I assume is true somewhat, again given his career, but it's interesting that so much has been changed.
An okay read, especially if you like action/warfare. For a couple days at the beach it's great, but it wasn't as good as I remember Bravo Two Zero being - perhaps the disclaimer made it feel less real to me, and so less impressive. But still alright.
October 19, 2023
Based on a true story in recent history. Afghanistan, 2012 – a decade after the “fall” of the Taliban and a decade before the American troop withdrawal. Four women are travelling with donkeys through the poor and mountainous region of northern Afghanistan near the Tajikistan border. They are volunteers who tend to seriously ill children and move from village to village without any security escorts. A group of armed men covertly observe as they travel and decide to make money by kidnapping them.
The British government claims not to negotiate with terrorists and it is quickly apparent that a military rescue is the only way out. The difficulties of rescuing defenceless people from highly trained and armed bandits deep inside a remote mountain cave, cannot be overestimated. Knowing that it actually happened lends a credibility that is nothing short of gripping.
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The British government claims not to negotiate with terrorists and it is quickly apparent that a military rescue is the only way out. The difficulties of rescuing defenceless people from highly trained and armed bandits deep inside a remote mountain cave, cannot be overestimated. Knowing that it actually happened lends a credibility that is nothing short of gripping.
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August 9, 2024
"The Rescue" by Andy McNab is an absolutely riveting true story that reads like a high-octane thriller. McNab masterfully narrates the events from multiple perspectives, including the SAS and DELTA assault teams, kidnappers, hostages, and intelligence operators, which adds depth and intensity to the storytelling. The book brilliantly captures the daring heroism, meticulous planning, and flawless execution behind the mission. It's a fascinating and well-crafted narrative that kept me hooked from start to finish. Definitely one of my favorite reads of the year!
February 6, 2025
Reads like a novelisation of events which makes it easy to absorb. One and two page chapters bounce between different characters and provides a sense of tension building.
Great story and written in the McNab style, you’ll get exactly what you expect and wanted from this book. I’ll check out his other title The Hunt from the Special Ops Missions range.
Great story and written in the McNab style, you’ll get exactly what you expect and wanted from this book. I’ll check out his other title The Hunt from the Special Ops Missions range.
October 3, 2023
A fairly short book. Thankfully there were not a lot of dead bodies at the end of the mission. I prefer his personally biographical military stories and his fiction to this (and the other one... the hunt i think it's called)
March 15, 2024
Really good read
May 10, 2024
Quick easy fast paced read.
July 27, 2024
Action
Great story, Good missions!
A book you can read from start to finish and live the fact it has small chapters.
Great story, Good missions!
A book you can read from start to finish and live the fact it has small chapters.
August 7, 2024
A page turner, pretty basic story but does get exciting at some parts.
August 23, 2024
Brilliant read, well set up to constantly keep me hooked, read in 2 days
December 26, 2024
Very interesting and a good level of detail
January 28, 2025
say what you want about me but this was action packed as fuck
March 19, 2025
Totally enjoyed the book, would have been better if I knew all the abbreviations meanings were in the Back of the book, before I got to the back, hard to remember what's what.
May 27, 2025
Andy Mcnab
It's not a bad read, but not the best book from Andy Mcnab. It's worth reading if you can get it cheap.
It's not a bad read, but not the best book from Andy Mcnab. It's worth reading if you can get it cheap.
June 14, 2025
Good read
This book was a good read from start to finish with plenty of action and was hard to put down
This book was a good read from start to finish with plenty of action and was hard to put down
July 3, 2025
I'm not going to give anything away, Andy McNab has lived it and walked the walk and he knows how to tell a great military action story, especially those stories based on real events.
July 18, 2025
This is a story full of action which was cool but the writing wasn't to be and I struggled to finish it. I can see why people love his books but it wasn't for me.
September 24, 2025
A page turner
Yet again McNab produces an action packed novel which keeps you reading to the early hour. Gripping and entertaining. Congratulations.
Yet again McNab produces an action packed novel which keeps you reading to the early hour. Gripping and entertaining. Congratulations.
April 13, 2025
Excellent story and a good read
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