Their location: Iraq. Their mission: to sever a vital enemy
underground communication link, to find and destroy mobile Scud
launchers. Their call sign: Bravo Two Zero.
When eight members of the elite SAS regiment embark on a highly covert
operation, they are each laden with 15 stones of equipment, needing to
tab 20km across the desert to reach their objective. But within days,
their location is compromised. They engage in a fierce battle. They
escape on foot to the Syrian border. Three men die. One escapes. But
four men are captured. For them, the worst is yet to come. Delivered
to Baghdad, they are tortured with a savagery for which not even their
intensive SAS training has prepared them ...
This week's book is Bravo Two Zero by Andrew McNab and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
