The media had an interesting story regarding the interception and boarding of a certain vessel in International waters by the SBS. Which was found to be carrying drugs.

Amongst this vessels crew who were arrested at the time were a number of serving and former Royal Marines.
It is understood Peter Mercer was also one of those arrested!

Don Camsell has seen action in extraordinary circumstances. Throughout all this, he talks of the friends he's lost on the way, and the change in the service as the SBS is absorbed into fighting a new war. The final scenes in the book, describing an attack on drug runners in the seas off the UK, show what the force will be asked to do more and more in the future.

Hello adj125

Regarding the 'Don Camsell' book.
A trawl down Recommended Books to 'SBS Book' may be of interest to you.

Rover

After reading several books on this subject and indeed of the same conflict, certain details are of slight concern to the authenticity of the account given, but that does not make the book any less readable, and in fact these details would not have been noticed if I had not already read another account. The most noteable detail is the "who fired the first shot" fire fight and the relationship between spence and the R.S.M, who was in charge of this patrol.

"Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic trooper in the S.A.S. When he was dispatched to Northern Ireland. His top-secret mission: to execute IRA suspects in cold blood. Bruce and three S.A.S. comrades shot down one terrified victim after another, leaving their bodies to be buried in deep, unmarked woodland graves. The soldiers grew their hair long and drove ordinary looking cars. But they always carried pistols and sub-machine guns.

I think even without someone pointing it out to me I'd noticed there wasn't something quite right about this book....

He seemed to lack knowledge or detailed information and it missed that certain feel. Compare it to First Into Action by D Falconer and you'll see what I mean. Now that's a man who's beasted himself.

But yeah....he was an attached boat handler from the RMs. It'd be like one of the 264 boys saying 'I was in the SAS'.

A flurry of activity. On Thursday (01/08/96) Paul Bruce, the author of The Nemesis File was detained at 5:45am at his home in Weston-super-Mare, by officers of the RUC. A copy of his manuscript containing a new chapter, which the publisher claimed would substantiate his claims, was also seized. The Nemesis File was a best selling book billed as a true story of an SAS squad that had executed about 30 men in Northern Ireland, of which Bruce had claimed to be a member. Defence sources had always ridiculed the claims, and even Sinn Fein described them as "totally outlandish". Paul Bruce was flown to Northern Ireland and questioned by the RUC under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and a day of claims and statements followed. On Friday (02/08/96) the RUC issued a statement. The book was a "work of fiction". Paul Inman, who used the pen name Paul Bruce, had never worked for the SAS. The closest he had got was working for several months in Ulster as a army vehicle mechanic. The RUC confirmed that he could now face a charge of wasting Police time. A senior SAS source said "We are delighted this man has been exposed as the phoney we always said he was." Reported in The Telegraph 01/08/96 and 02/08/96.

Wouldn't surprise me if it was Andy McLiar or Chris Ryan(couldn't think of a silly name for him).