Vetted and approved by Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD), the books have become an almost sacred part of British military and public myth.
Ryan followed with his story, entitled The One That Got Away. Bravo Two Zero, McNab's lionised account of the mission, which was published in 1993, sold millions of copies and launched a slew of copycats. One managed to escape by foot across the desert into Syria.įor Andy McNab, the patrol's leader, and Chris Ryan, the soldier who escaped - both names are pseudonyms - the military blunders led, ultimately, to remarkable financial success.
Three of the eight-man team were killed, and four captured and tortured, while trying to destroy Scud missile launchers in north-west Iraq. It was the call sign for a British Special Air Service (SAS) patrol during a mission in the 1991 Gulf War that was "compromised" behind enemy lines. For many people those three words conjure up the image of the soldier hero: the special-forces trooper - the kind of cool-minded killer who could go anywhere and seemingly do just about anything. His account of an SAS mission that went wrong is more about truth than heroics, reports Nick Ryan.īravo Two Zero. Britain's government has spent five years trying to gag Mike Coburn.
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