Tasked with locating SCUD launching sites, Bravo Two Zero were left truly on their own behind enemy lines in Gulf War One Iraq. With comms that didn't work and questionable intel, B20 was essentially helpless. Eventually they were compromised, and after a brutal firefight with Iraqi forces, the patrol split up while evading their pursuers.

Iraqi agents eventually captured and tortured B20 members Andy Mcnab, 'Mal,' 'Mark,' and 'Dinger,' while patrol members Vince Phillips, Bob Consiglio, and Steve Lane lost their lives to the brutal weather conditions and enemy fire.

McNab held up under torture as well as any human being could, and eventually he and the other surviving B20 patrol members were released from Iraqi custody. McNab returned to life in the SAS, his post-war assignments including participation in the ultra-elite and secret "Revolutionary Warfare Wing."

Andy McNab retired from the military in February 1993, and went on to write what has become one of the most critically-acclaimed and best-selling military memoirs of all time, Bravo Two Zero, his personal account of the ill-fated mission in Iraq.

Following the phenomenal sales of Bravo Two Zero with the instant classic Immediate Action, Andy McNab became recognised as a publishing force to be reckoned with, and began a successful fiction career with the publication of his first novel, Remote Control.