Andy McNab - Sorted! How to get what you want out of life: The Good Psychopath 2

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr Kevin Dutton is a research psychologist at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. He is an affiliated member of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy. He is the author of the acclaimed Flipnosis: The Art of Split-Second Persuasion and The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in Life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers as well as The Good Psychopaths Guide to Success. He lives in the Cotswolds.

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From the day he was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guys Hospital in London, Andy McNab has led an extraordinary life.

As a teenage delinquent, Andy McNab kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh. As a member of 22 SAS he was at the centre of covert operations for nine years on five continents. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, will remain in regimental history for ever. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Armys most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS.

Since then Andy McNab has become one of the worlds bestselling writers, drawing on his insider knowledge and experience. As well as three nonfiction bestsellers including Bravo Two Zero, the bestselling British work of military history, and The Good Psychopaths Guide to Success, his first collaboration with Kevin Dutton, he is the author of the bestselling Nick Stone series and the Tom Buckingham thrillers. He has also written a number of books for children.

Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK, works in the film industry advising Hollywood on everything from covert procedure to training civilian actors to act like soldiers, and he continues to be a spokesperson and fundraiser for both military and literacy charities.

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Hello, folks!

Were Kevin Dutton and Andy McNab the unlikeliest creative partnership since Eminem and Elton John cavorted onstage together at the Grammys that time.

If this is the first time weve met, wed better start by introducing ourselves. One of us is a psychologist at Oxford University. The other did nine years in the SAS and is now one of the UKs most successful entrepreneurs. If you dont already know which of us is which then well leave it up to you to figure it out. But suffice it to say that you wouldnt want to be standing behind McNab in the queue at Costa Coffee if theyve run out of his favourite chocolate gold coins, and the last time Dutton changed a magazine was when he cancelled his subscription to History Today and went for Architectural Digest.

Oh, and McNab is also a psychopath.

Of course, if you have heard of us, theres a fair chance it may have something to do with a book we brought out last year called The Good Psychopaths Guide To Success. If books on personal development may be fancifully construed as deft keys of transcendental truth gently turning in antiquated, psychological locks, then The Good Psychopath was the mental health equivalent of a nail bomb.

In true Special Forces fashion, it blew in the windows of the self-help market and, amidst the burning rubble of popular acclaim, abseiled on to the roof of the UK bestsellers chart in a fireproof suit and a respirator.

Needless to say, when we say popular we interpret that word strictly within the traditions of the postmodernist, neo-structuralist, symbolic interactionist school of semiotic analysis the nearest approximation, in common, everyday parlance, arguably being un-popular.

At one point our Twitter account boasted more trolls than a Dungeons & Dragons convention in Troms and we had so many fruitcakes clowning around on our website that some bloke from Mr Kipling got on the blower asking if we had any spare.

Talk about five a day, Andy quipped at the time. Were on five hundred a day!

Of course, we jest. The small fact that Companies House tried to ban The Good Psychopath Ltd when we first registered the name on the grounds of it being offensive, and that one senior clergyman took the liberty of informing us that we had about as much taste as one of Jeffrey Dahmers TV dinners, were but mere trifles in the grand scheme of things. By return of email we respectfully pointed out to the eminent ecclesiastic that, actually, Jesus himself didnt fare too badly in the psychopath stakes and as for his sawn-off sidekick Saint Paul well, he made Ronnie Kray look like Peppa Pig.