Duncan Falconer

Duncan Falconer
Born	London, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	12 years
Unit	Special Boat Service
Battles/wars	The Troubles Falklands War
Other work	Author, Novelist

Duncan Falconer (A pseudonym) is an author and former Special Boat Service commando. As a child, he was raised in an orphanage in North London before being adopted by a family from Battersea.

Military career

Falconer joined the British Royal Marines at the age of 18. At 19 years of age, he attended SBS selection in Poole Dorset and was one of nine Marines to successfully complete the course out of 147 men. Exceptionally he had been allowed to undergo selection without being required to build experience in a Commando although later in his career he was posted to 42 Commando as a career broadening opportunity.

Falconer served the majority of his career with the SBS. He served a year with the SAS in Northern ireland. He also underwent selection to 14 Intelligence Company and served in that role in Northern Ireland for two and a half years. He served in the US, Mediterranean, and Northern Ireland.

After the SBS

On initially leaving the SBS Falconer spent two years working for a specialised security company that often carried out tasks the MoD could or would not fulfill for various reasons.

Falconer was on his way to Central America via Los Angeles to become involved in Kidnap & Ranson when he wrote his first screenplay which he sold weeks later. As a result, Falconer based himself in LA for more than a decade and purseud two careers - one as a screenplay writer, the other as a private security risk consultant. He spent several years working as a bartender to 'learn American' while writing screenplays and TV and occasionally going overseas as a private security operative. It was while living in LA Falconer wrote his autobiography.

After 911 Falconer returned to the UK and joined a specialist boutique security company based in HerefordPrivate military companies. There he worked as a hostile environment instructor and security consultant for journalists and operated in many countries including most of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and South America.

His first literary publication, First into Action was a non-fiction account of the actions carried out by the SBS and 14 Intelligence Detachment was initially seen as an attempt to go against the tide of many of the British Special Forces biographies of the time. The tales were to a lesser extent on the heroic actions of the men and showed the more humorous, realistic side of the troops. The book did, however, highlight the rivalry and antagonsm between the Special Boat Service and Special Air Service and the history behind their conflict.

Such was the success of the book, Time Warner publishing contracted Falconer to write two military based novels. He has since written a series of novels, all except one based around his central character John Stratton. Stratton is a former SBS operative and appeared in The Hostage, The Hijack, The Operative then Hardback books Undersea Prison, The Mercenary, Traitor, Pirate and Assassin while the central character in The Protector is former Royal Marine turned private security contractor Bernie Mallory.

Falconer moved to South Africa, then Dubai where he consulted on 'fuel and food' convoy moves across Afghanistan. Falconer moved back to Europe and also South Africa where he is a maritime and crisis management consultant for a UK based security company.

Falconer continues to write books and screenplays.

Books

Non-Fiction

• First into Action: Dramatic Personal Account of Life Inside the SBS

Fiction

• The Hostage
• The Hijack
• The Operative
• The Protector
• Undersea Prison
• The Mercenary (published: 4 Jun 2009)
• Traitor
• Pirate

References

External links

• Little Brown book group
• Meet the Author: First Into Action
• Meet the Author: The Hostage
• Meet the Author: The Hijack
• Meet the Author: The Bomb Surgeon