An account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab, author of
"Bravo two Zero", was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital, to
the day he went to fight in the Gulf War. Recounting his activities, this
account of life at the forward edge of battle confirms Andy McNab's standing in
the front rank of writers on modern war.I took my belt kit off and got down on my belly. All I had with my was my
pistol as I kitten-crawled towards the perimeter. I put my hands out, put
pressure on my elbows and pushed myself forward with the tips of my toes. Six
inches at a time, I moved through the undergrowth. I stopped, lifted my head
from the dirt of the jungle floor, looked and listened. I heard my own breath
and it sounded a hundred times louder than anything around me. The leaves
crackled more than they normally would; everything was magnified ten times in
my mind. I inched forward again. It took an hour to cover twenty metres. We
were right on top of the target now and movement was the thing that was going
to give us away. Andy McNab gripped more than a million and a half readers
worldwide with his number one bestseller "Bravo Two Zero", the true story of an
SAS patrol behind enemy lines in Iraq. Now he has written a book that is even
more explosive and compelling. "Immediate Action" is a no-holds-barred account
of an extraordinary life, from the day McNab was found in a carrier bag on the
steps of Guy's Hospital, to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War. As a
delinquent youth, he kicked against society.; As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields
of South Armagh. As a member of 22 SAS Regiment, he was at the centre of covert
operations for nine years - on five continents. Recounting with grim humour and
in riveting, often horrifying, detail his activities in the world's most highly
trained and efficient Special Forces unit, McNab sweeps us into a world of
surveillance and intelligence-gathering, c
