SCOTT EVANS · BEHIND THE BOOKS
Stories Have
Consequences.
The research behind the books, the experience behind the writing, and original stories from worlds where survival is rarely clean.
EXPLORE THE WRITING
Choose Your Route In
Behind the Books
Research, military history, veteran experience and the ideas that shaped the published work.
02Modern Myths
Contemporary fables about ordinary people caught inside impossible rules.
03Monster Accord
Redacted files, field reports and incidents from the hidden world behind Bad Wiring.
04Short Stories
Quill Marlowe investigations, darker fiction and complete stories you can read online.
LATEST
Recent Writing
-
The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands: Goose Green, Mount Longdon and the Long March
How 2 PARA and 3 PARA fought through Goose Green, Mount Longdon and Wireless Ridge—and what the Falklands revealed about the Regiment after Suez.
-
Voices from the Regiment: Four Soldiers, Four Different Wars
Four first-hand accounts—from Bruneval and Arnhem to Northern Ireland and Mount Longdon—show Parachute Regiment history through the men who lived it.
-
The Last Combat Jump: Why Suez 1956 Still Matters
Why Suez 1956 still matters: the last battalion combat jump and the operation that reshaped Britain’s argument for keeping the Parachute Regiment.
-
What Market Garden Still Tells Us About Airborne Forces
Operation Market Garden remains more than an Arnhem legend. It shows what airborne troops were built to do — and what happens when the clock runs out before the ground forces arrive.
-
What Does P Company Actually Test?
What does P Company really test? A former Paratrooper examines selection, resilience and the limits of what the course can reveal about a soldier.
-
The Last Passenger: A British Ghost Story
On the last bus out of town, a driver takes an elderly passenger along a vanished route and discovers what happened to his father.
-
The Weight of the Maroon Beret
The maroon beret does not make a man better. But it can change what he expects of himself, what others expect of him, and how hard it becomes to step outside the story.
-
Why Do Paras Think They’re Better?
Paras are taught to believe they are better—but where does that certainty come from? A former 3 PARA soldier examines selection, identity and the power of shared hardship.
-
Why Did Britain Keep the Parachute Regiment?
Britain’s last battalion-sized combat parachute assault took place in 1956—but the Paras survived. My new book investigates why.
START WITH THE BOOKS
Prefer the Full Story?
Explore military history, memoir, political thriller, urban horror and science fiction by Scott Evans.
Browse all books