Andy 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.
Andy McNab eats scorpions for breakfast.
He also writes a lot of books and Amazon are listing him as co-author of the 400 page ‘Battlefield 3’ book, presumably a tie-in novel for the forthcoming game.
Sitting in the co-author chair is Patrick Bach from Battlefield developer DICE and  this has lead to speculation that the book is a  novelisation of the single player campaign.
Source: Battlefield 3 Blog
colmshan1990
Interesting…
His stuff are quite readable.
Not exactly masterpieces, but a cut above the usual guff we get from tie-ins.
Mind you, his best series is the one aimed at kids than adults…
MrSpeedyGonzales
Sweet, I love Andy McNab books. I hope it’s not just the same story as the game, but in book form. I can’t read something that I already know the ending to.
gazzagb
Dilemma: Do I read the book first or play the game first? For the Assassins Creed books by Oliver Bowden, I’ve always played the game first and thougherly enjoyed them. The books often add more detail to the story, however there’s always the temptation to skip a few pages in the boring bits.
Will be interesting to see how BF3 will read, you never really think of an FPS to have a deep story, its mainly action with a story thrown over it.
Foxhound
On my list, will get this..
sesameseed
None of his qualifications seem to be of a literary nature. Stick to the day job Mr McNab.
cc_star
A few of his books are good a few are boring, not sure what this changes but its a nice addition I suppose
hazelam
ea are really pushing the supplementary media for their games these days aren’t they.
there are the mass effect novels, i’ve only read the first one but it was bloody good, i even found a copy of the c&c 3 novel, and there was the medal of honour tie in book, that was a short one, written by Chris Ryan if i recall.
i found a copy in a charity shop.
i’m not usually a fan of war books, unless they involve aliens or orcs. ^_^
but i really enjoyed that one.
i’ve never actually read anything by Mcnab, i’ll probably give this a read though if i see a copy cheap though.
gaffers101
I’ll read it. I like his stuff. And the Chris Ryan books.
Iainz
I have a vague memory of getting a free copy of an Andy Mcnabb novelisation of the latest MOH when it came out