Biography (continued)
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.
In 2009, Andy McNab released Spoken from the Front, in which he told the real story of the Afghan Campaign for the first time in the words of the servicemen and women fighting there. While writing the book, McNab had unprecedented access to soldiers of all ranks, as well as pilots, reservists, engineers, medics, Royal Military police, mechanics, cooks and other military personnel.
McNab is also the author of several highly successful works of fiction, drawing extensively on his experiences and knowledge of Special Forces soldiering. He has written thirteen fast action thrillers starring Nick Stone, a tough ex-SAS operative working on deniable operations for British Intelligence. The first, Remote Control, was published in 1997, and was hailed as the most authentic thriller ever written, selling over half a million copies in the UK. The subsequent books have all been highly acclaimed bestsellers.
McNab is now writing a new series of fiction with co-author Kym Jordan about one platoon’s experience of warfare in the Twenty First Century. The first novel in this series, War Torn, was a Sunday Times bestseller.
Andy McNab has collaborated with scriptwriter Robert Rigby on the bestselling young adult thriller series Boy Soldier and has written another series of books for young adult readers, DropZone. He has also written two novels for emerging adult readers, The Grey Man and Last Night Another Soldier.
McNab was technical weapons advisor and trainer on the hit Michael Mann film Heat (1995) and spent five months in Hollywood working closely with Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Val Kilmer. As well as advising on weapons handling and use, McNab was drafted in to work out in detail how master-thief De Niro would go about pulling off robberies on an armoured car and a bank, and how cop Al Pacino would go about tracking him down and stopping him.
Also a director of a Hereford based security company, McNab developed and runs a specialist training course for news crews, journalists and members of non-governmental organisations working in hostile environments (including war zones). The course is currently the only one of its kind in the world. He is also involved in training videos for the Ministry of Defence, lectures for the FBI and gives motivational talks for large corporations on both sides of the Atlantic.
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