Immediate Action

Seriously though, this is a must read for anyone who is vaguely interested in the forces, guns and brutal story telling, even someone who has any interest in fitness stamina etc it has the British Armys finest survival and fitness techniques described and explained so would be a shame to miss out on them.. This book has it all in and is written with fantastic detail and an extremely honest, witty sense of humour.

McNab describes his real life story's with such detail and skill that you feel as though you are there, right next to him in Northen Ireland being fired upon by the IRA and the training selection process for the Regiment (22 Squadron, the SAS); from the Brecon Beacons to the Jungle in Mayaila and feeling the pain from the Interrogation process that completes the training. This has the makings for yet another film on the regiment and would be a complete waste if this didn't happen.

I wont say any more- mainly because I cant! I havnt got far enough but once again, McNab comes out on top. Simply Awesome- a must buy...


Excellent read by a truely great military writer.   November 22, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

I read the book after reading Bravo Two Zero.This book competes with the other but Immediate Action goes into much more detail.Sometimes the book contains technical jargon which some readers may find perplexing, but for a military nut like me it was sheer class.There are also great pictures inside which help understand some of the conditions that this elite - group fight in.The best part of the book , in my humble opinion, was when Andy had to pass selection.It will make you wince in pain and gawp at the book as some of the things done are unbelievable. Immediate action is in my personal top three and i would strongly reccomend this book to anyone slightly interested in that sort of thing. Finally may i congratulate Andy Mcnab(if that is his real name !)on a superb read which gives an amazing insight into The SAS.The only problem with this book is that it finished to soon and kept me up to 3 am as i couldn't put the book down.This book MUST BE READ!!!


The best factual book i have had the pleasure to read.   November 9, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

This book right from the first chapter had me gripped.Its not just that having been in the services i had developed an interest,i was taken into a new world for me and an interesting one for those who haven't had the pleasure.Just reading about the selection process was enough to show me just how comfortable my life is!For those who dont know Immediate Action is the autobiography of Andy Mcnab DCM,MM.It starts with him joining the army as a boy soldier to keep out of trouble,and takes you right through to him becoming a sergeant in the SAS and of course the now legendary Bravo Two Zero patrol in Iraq.Superb


Absoulutly fantastic, if you like the sas you'll like this.   October 13, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This book has got be the best book I have ever read. It is full of action and nailbiting tension. So much so you will be literally on the edge of your seats. Everything you ever needed to know about the army,and of course the the best elite special forces unit in the world!! The S.A.S. Andy McNab has wrote some good stuff but this is just the creame of the crop. Buy this book and you will not want to put it down. I strongly sugest that if there are any film producers out there, that you seriously consider trying to make a film about this extrodinary auto-biography,it would be the biggest film of the year possibly even the decade so do it!!!!!


An outstanding & graphic description of special forces life.   December 15, 1998
3 out of 4 found this review helpful

Andy Mc Nab is as brilliant a writer as he clearly was a soldier. His style of writing makes it easy to picture what life is like in the SAS and the the reader cannot help but marvel at the professionalism and quality of the people who serve us in the Special Forces. Tom Clancy wites fiction about secret battles with drug barons in the jungle, Mc Nab has done it.

One of the most interesting things about the book is the amazing attention to detail and inordinate amount of planning put in before an operation proceeds, no gung ho rushing in without thought, guns blazing. Also read Bravo two zero, about the gulf war, which is another great book.