Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
22.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
133980
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
422
Points per Page
0.052133
Description
Andy McNab provides an account of his experiences in Iraq in 1991 as leader of a British Special Forces team sent behind enemy lines to destroy scud missiles. The plot contains graphic descriptions of the torture he and his men endured after captured.