SAS: Rogue Heroes charts the creation of the famed Special Forces unit. Based on the book by Ben Macintyre.

Meet the characters from SAS: Rogue Heroes

Wrangel Clarke

Okay, Wrangel is one of those quietly brilliant types who you notice only when he’s the only one with a plan that actually works — small, steady, nerdy-in-a-good-way about maps and timings. He’s the calm eye in a hurricane, kind of prim but also the guy who suddenly pulls a ridiculous joke (bad joke) and everyone groans. Likes his tea too strong and claims to dislike music but hums the same tune in tight spots, which is adorable and annoying. Not flashy, but he’s the sort of person you’d follow into anything because he remembers the details you don’t.

Mike Sadler

Mike is pure, chaotic energy — scrappy, loud, full of practical cleverness and the kind of smile that gets you into trouble and out of it somehow. He’s brilliant with gadgets or radios (or a jury-rigged contraption that definitely shouldn’t work) and once fixed a radio with chewing gum and bravado, I swear. He’s also the team joker, sometimes maddeningly immature, but there’s a heart under the pranks that will surprise you when it comes down to it. Oh and he eats biscuits like they’re going out of fashion — crumb evidence everywhere.

David Stirling

Stirling is the charismatic schemer, all confidence and audacity, the thinking man who loves a crazy plan and can sell it to you with one eyebrow raise. He’s like a chess player who also enjoys a gamble — brilliant strategist, obsessed with the idea of hitting hard and quick, and maybe a tiny ego but in an inspiring way? He can be cold, too, obsessive about the mission, yet occasionally does something wildly compassionate that makes you blink. Honestly he’s the kind of leader you’d resent if you weren’t secretly thrilled to follow him.

Paddy Mayne

Paddy is absolute mayhem in a uniform — ferocious, fearless, the bruiser with a grin, a man who charges first and thinks later (or maybe never thinks, who knows). He’s terrifying in combat and scandalously loyal off it, like the worst sort of angel: violent and protective with a soft spot for mates and, apparently, terrible poetry on a good day. Loves a smoke, loves a fight, loves to laugh like it’s a weapon — he’s complicated and explosive and somehow deeply human. Also rumor has it he hates pigeons and befriends them when no one’s watching, which is hilarious.

Eve Mansour

Eve is clever and slippery in the best possible way — sharp-tongued, fluent in bad-luck charming, and someone who always seems two moves ahead with a cigarette and a secret. She’s not just a love interest or a helper; she’s her own plotline, resourceful, morally ambiguous at times, and fiercely independent — which I adore. She drinks like she’s trying to forget something and laughs like she’s hiding it, so yes, complexity! Small, surprising kindnesses keep sneaking out of her, and that makes her dangerous in the most human sense.

Jock Lewes

Jock is the brilliant oddball — scientist, poet, and honestly probably the guy who invents funny bombs and critiqued a sonnet in the same breath. Properly cultured but also a little reckless, he mixes chemistry with sarcasm and somehow makes it charming instead of terrifying. He hates authority (loudly) but follows a painfully exact code of his own — punctual, precise, ironically romantic about rules he breaks. Also, inexplicably fond of tying knots when nervous, which is adorable and slightly unsettling.

Bill Fraser

Bill is the gruff, dependable backbone type — older-sounding, practical, a bit of a curmudgeon but the sort who’ll risk himself without the poetry of it, just because it needs doing. He’s dry, sarcastic, and secretly sentimental; will complain about bravery as if it’s a nuisance and then quietly do the brave thing anyway. Loves his tea, hates waste, and tells stories with too many details that somehow make you feel grounded. He’s not glamorous, but he’s the one you want when things go sideways — stubborn, loyal, and a little full of soft contradictions.