This was due to many SBS operatives leaving to instead work as deep sea divers in the North Sea for the lucrative salaries. The men are supposedly on a single mission to seek a recent kidnap victim, but in truth all three have very different aims in the besieged town, and each keep a dark secret from the others. Letter to The Daily Telegraph Duncan Falconer | 29 October 2020 SIR – Mark Almond (Comment October 27) is right in his assessment of the potential for shipjacking.

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He was the youngest ever member of the SBS and spent 11 years in the lesser-known counterpart of the SAS.

There he worked as a hostile environment instructor and security consultant for journalists, operating in many countries including Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America.

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He will be remembered fondly by all who saw him play wearing the famous green and white jersey, and our thoughts are with his family. Duncan says: “Two days later, the guy who took my position was in the same spot, watching the same guy, at the exact same time, when two guys came up to his car and put seven rounds in him.A versatile player who was comfortable at either inside forward, wing half or centre half, the strongly-built youngster was said to have been attracting the attention of the then-Motherwell manager Bobby Ancell with a view to potentially replacing the long-serving Charlie Aitken at Fir Park, before the Hibs manager Hugh Shaw stepped in to secure his signature. Even though the military required most candidates are rto serve time as a Commando before applying to the Special Boat Services, Falconer was chosen as an exception to this requirement. I enjoyed Stratton very much and with the success of Jack Reacher, The Terminal List, and Jack Ryan, I don’t see a reason as to not do it. This story grew out of a civilian task where I was hired to create a solution to piracy in the Indian Ocean by a private security contractor. Now, however, I can fill in the blanks in some of my older letters – although there are some which will still have to wait.