Military • ''Operation Certain Death: The Inside Story of the SAS's Greatest Battle'' (Century, 2004) - The account of
Operation Barras, the attempt by the SAS to rescue the British Forces captured by guerrilla militia group the
West Side Boys in
Sierra Leone. • ''Bloody Heroes: Ultimate Betrayal – Ultimate Firepower - Ultimate Revenge: The True Story of Britain's Secret Warriors in Afghanistan'' (Century 2006) - The account of British and American special forces unit deployed against
Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. •
Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (Sphere, 2008) A chronicle of the Apache pilots deployed in the
Afghanistan war. •
Fire strike 7/9 (Ebury, 2010) An account of an
Apache helicopter Fire Support Team's tour of Afghanistan. • ''It's all about Treo: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog'' (
Quercus Publishing, 2012) - The true story of
Treo - the world's most highly decorated living dog – whose job it was to sniff out bombs in
Afghanistan. •
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces, 100,000 Enemy, The Explosive True Story (Quercus, 2013) - Tells the story of a
Special Boat Service unit caught in a ferocious enemy ambush in
Iraq, who managed to inflict massive damage on their enemies despite being outnumbered and outgunned. • ''War Dog: The No-man's Land Puppy Who Took to the Skies'' (Sphere, 2013, ) - The true story of a
German Shepherd puppy
Antis, rescued from World War Two
no man's land in
France by Czech fighter pilot
Robert Bozdech, and their lives together. • ''Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII'' (Quercus, 2014) - The story of
Winston Churchill's first
'deniable' secret operative force to operate behind enemy lines in
World War II. This book was adapted into the 2024 action-comedy film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. The book was republished in 2023 as
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. • ''
Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War'' (Quercus, 2014) - An account of the only dog to be declared an official
Prisoner of War in
Sumatra in World War Two. •
The Nazi Hunters (Quercus, 2015) - About the SAS's secret mission after WWII to hunt the SS commanders responsible for the murder of their comrades. • ''Hunting Hitler's Nukes: The Secret Race to Stop the Nazi Bomb'' (2016), , details the
Norwegian heavy water sabotage by Norwegian & British Commandos of the
Vemork Hydroelectric Plant during WW2. •
SAS Ghost Patrol (Quercus, 2017) ;
LRDG/
SAS raids on
Tobruk and
Barce in 1942.
Biographies and memoirs •
Slave (
PublicAffairs, 2004) The life story of
Mende Nazer who was stolen from her village in the
Nuba Mountains and sold into life as a domestic slave in
Khartoum and then
London. • ''
Tears of the Desert: Surviving The Genocide - One Woman's True Story'' (Hodder & Stoughton 2008) The biography of Sudanese doctor
Halima Bashir who suffered greatly as a result of speaking out about the torture of her people by the
Janjaweed Arab militias. •
Little Daughter: A Memoir of Survival in Burma and the West (Simon & Schuster, 2009) The life story of
Zoya Phan, a
Karen refugee from war-torn
Burma who went on to become the face of Burma's enslaved people. •
Homeland: An Extraordinary Story of Hope and Survival (Simon & Schuster, 2010) Tells the story of U.S. President
Barack Obama's Kenyan half-brother
George Obama who gave up a life of crime to help improve the lives of children in the
Nairobi slums. •
Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse: The True Story of One Woman Who Risked Everything to Bring Hope to Afghanistan (Virago, 2011) Is the story of how
Suraya Sadeed set up an underground school for girls in
Kabul, offering hope and aid to thousands of fellow Afghans. •
Against a Tide of Evil: How One Man Became the Whistleblower to the First Mass Murder of the Twenty-First Century (Mainstream Publishing 2013) - The story of
Mukesh Kapila, the former head of the
United Nations in Sudan, who brought about justice for those responsible for the
Darfur genocide. •
Thrillers •
Desert Claw (Arrow, 2006) The fictional tale of ex-SAS soldier Mat Kilbride who takes on a
black ops deniable mission to forcibly retrieve a priceless
Van Gogh painting looted from a palace in post war
Iraq. •
Cobra Gold (Century 2007) The fictional story of SAS veteran Luke Kilbride's search for 50 million dollars' worth of
gold bullion he and his team stole in a
Beirut bank heist twenty years before. ==References==