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Editorial Reviews  Review A heart-thumping read. -Daily Express   McNab's great asset is that the heart of his fiction is non-fiction: other thriller writers do their research, but he has actually been there. -Sunday Times  About the Author Andy McNab was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Remote Control, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light, Liberation Day and Dark Winter.  Excerpt.  Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1  Tuesday, 27 February 2007 0015 hrs North-west of Basra  The noise and heat, gloom and sheer fucking claustrophobia in the back of the Warrior were oppressive enough, but now the armour was suddenly clanging three times a second like the world's strongest madman was using it for sledgehammer practice. We were taking rounds. 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We took more small-arms fire into the hull, and then there was a much louder bang two feet away from my shoulder.  'RPG!'  Rocket-propelled grenades could punch holes in concrete walls. I knew it would just bounce off the skirt of bar armour surrounding us, but I still felt like I was trapped in a locked safe while people on the outside were fucking about with blowtorches and gelignite.  It wasn't simply that I couldn't see what was happening. It was having no control that bothered me. I was at the mercy of the driver, the gunner, and the commander in the turret. He was a platoon sergeant called Rhett or Red - I didn't catch it when we met, and then we got past the point where I could ask again.  Our Warrior was part of the battle group's recce platoon. Dom, Pete and I were embedded. 'Entombed, more like,' Pete said. He'd been a tankie himself once upon a time, and even he didn't like the lid coming down. We were jammed shoulder to shoulder in the eerie red glow of the night-lights. Rhett's scuffed and dusty desert boots were level with my face. The gunner was up there on his left, frantically feeding rounds into the 30mm cannon.  The wagon took one final hard right and came to a jarring, gut-wrenching halt. The stern reared up under the momentum, then crashed down like a breaking wave.  'Dismount! Dismount!'  Rhett's shout was drowned by the cannon kicking off above us.  Dom got a punch from one of the Kingsmen and hit the button above his head. The rear-door hydraulics whined. I could see stars, hear the roar of gunfire and heavy machinery.  The four recce guys tumbled out into the inky blackness. Pete shoved a hand over his lens and we followed.  My Timberlands slid and twisted on the rubble as I ducked down against the bar armour, gulping fresh but dust-laden air. Oil wells blazed out of control on the horizon. Gases and crude were being forced out of the ground under phenomenal pressure, shooting flames a hundred feet into the air.  The night was filled with the thunder of 30mm cannon kicking off across the dried-up wadi bed that separated us from our target - the buildings no more than a hundred away. It had prevented the drivers going right up to the front doors.  I was hungry for more air. My nostrils filled with sand, but I didn't care. I had my feet on the ground and I was in control of them. And, thanks to the mortar platoon, I could see what was happening. Their 81mm tubes had filled the sky with illume. Balls of blazing magnesium hung in the air above the town before beginning their descent, casting shadows left and right as they swung under their parachutes, silhouetting the two massive Challengers rumbling left and right of us.  Bright muzzle flashes from four or five AKs sparked up from the line of houses that edged the built-up area.  Our gunner switched from the 30mm Rarden cannon to the 7.62mm Hughes Helicopter Chain Gun to dish out a different edition of the same good news.  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