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  1. Sep 12, 2024 · Buy First Into Action Again by Duncan Falconer from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

    • Paperback
    • Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
    • Early Life
    • Writing Career
    • The Hostage
    • The Hijack

    Duncan Falconer has always lived a high stakes life. As an officer in the Special Boat Services for the British Royal Marines, Falconer’s novels are written with authenticity and command. Although he has written a few standalone works, Falconer is best known for his military thrillers featuring John Stratton. This super agent works for the British ...

    Duncan Falconer is the chosen pseudonym of a popular British author of the popular John Stratton series. His real name is unknown as well as parental origin. Falconer was an orphan. He was abandoned at birth and raised in an orphanage in the North London area. Later, he was adopted by a British couple and spent the rest of his childhood in the Batt...

    Duncan Falconer decided to continue his pursuit of a writing career in the United Kingdom. His first literary publication was First into Action. The military thriller was about Falconer’s adventures in the military. Most of the plotline are semi-biographical accounts of his actions in the Special Boat Services and in the 14 Intelligence Detachment....

    Duncan Falconer introduces the world to the elite SBS operative, John Stratton. When an undercover operation goes wrong, the British Intelligence agency turn to the best operative with a lethal reputation, John Stratton. In a dangerous race against time, Stratton must find an agent kidnapped by the IRA. But how did the IRA know about the British mi...

    In this second military thriller, John Stratton has been commissioned as a bodyguard but is bored with the new assignment. When a supertanker is highjacked by Palestinian freedom fighter, Stratton is taken around the world to help in a dangerous rescue. The book takes readers from London, to Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, and Riga. Falconer’s rich writ...

  2. Duncan Falconer - Military Screenwriter & Author. First into Action AGAIN. paperback kindle and Audible out now here. Available now from Amazon. and all good bookshops. ISBN-13 978-1915306708. Publisher: Mirror Books. A DRAMATIC PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF LIFE AFTER THE SBS.

    • First Into Action. The SBS was first into battle a month before the SAS in the Falklands War and again in the Gulf War, yet hitherto it is the SAS that has had by far the higher profile.
    • The Becket Approval. MI6 field operator, Devon Gunnymede, serving time for drugs theft, is temporarily released from jail to act as bait in order to help MI6 crack a sinister plot involving a Russian drug tsar.
    • The Hostage. When an undercover operation monitoring the Real IRA goes horrifically wrong, British Intelligence look to a man who can get their agent out: Stratton, SBS operative with a lethal reputation.
    • The Hijack. Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline, Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Omar and his men prepare for the most daring mission the PLO have ever conceived – the hijacking of a supertanker, a five-storey superstructure laden with oil.
  3. First Into Action Again is the sequel to Duncan Falcner's best-selling first autobiography, First Into Action. The story begins where the first book ended, with Falconer leaving the Special Boat Service, after a slew of adventures, to embark on what turned out to be a new life filled with many more exciting exploits, more than he had in the SBS ...

  4. Aug 6, 2024 · From joining up as a teenager, through SBS recruitment, training, and operational detachments, First into Action takes us on a journey through the SBS’s history, operations and tactics seen through the lens of Duncan Falconers remarkable story.

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  6. Oct 1, 1998 · FIRST INTO ACTION is the first Special Boat Services memoir written from the inside. It tells how Duncan Falconer trained with the Royal Marines in Deal before being recruited into the SBS at Poole in Dorset.