Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines including the daring & outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. Macleans extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert & later fighting alongside Titos partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading & show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould...