Si Biggs
We're delighted to have teamed up with Si Peters, former Royal Marines Commando.
Si grew up in South Dorset, the son of a Royal Marine with both grandfathers, having seen service in WW2 with the Royal Navy. His dad's father saw action as a gunner on HMS Ajax at the Battle of the River Plate and ended up commanding a destroyer, being awarded a DSC and bar.
He joined the Royal Marine Cadets at 12, and after leaving school and passing the recruit selection process, Si joined the Royal Marines on 6 June 1988, after completing nine months of Commando training in 1989. He joined his first unit, 45 Commando, and spent the next 18 years serving across the globe in various roles, including eight operational deployments.
Since leaving in 2006, he has run his own company mitigating risk, training and supplying equipment and solutions, working all over the world from the US to Beirut, Japan and China, supporting governments and corporations both large and small.
Recent roles have included training hovercraft crews & special forces to conduct drugs interdictions on the Amazon, engaging in firefights with Somali pirates from an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean, leading evacuation of persons during the Arab Spring, training personnel to manage crisis in Beirut and development of specialist training for government forces in the Middle East. Recently credited as crew on two High End TV series. Si is very much still active, he recently returned to the desert with his wife and family.
Breakfast at Babs'
The gritty tale of a team of Royal Marine Commandos on a special mission in Iraq. The story begins with the last training mission at sea with a nuclear submarine, the last party, and the last girl.
The CIA and M16 are watching a terrorist training cell preparing child suicide bombers. we watch the transformation from innocent child to unwitting murderer.
We follow the almost comical problems that the team of chosen men faces to prepare to go to war.
Once in theatre, the team inserts from a helicopter into a black lake at night in an unknown and hostile environment. After laying in wait, they find and intercept the terrorists. A firefight ensues. They are surprised to find the children, and Mike is shot whilst trying to protect them.
Mike watches as he is left behind by his comrades, the enemy know he is alive and been left for dead.
Alone and deserted Mike goes through many emotions as he struggles to stay focused on surviving, he is finally tracked down and cornered by his adversaries, now outgunned and surrounded Mike has to fight for his life, a fight to the death is certain.
Will they all return safely as a unit as Mike had promised and celebrate together with a Breakfast at Babs'.
Based on a real mission, many of the anecdotes are based on fact or near misses, a must-read for anyone interested in modern military fiction or fact!
