Ingvar Andersson – UN and Red Cross pilot

Ingvar Andersson spent years flying for the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross — missions that rarely made headlines, except one…
It often became the deciding factor between who lived and who did not. His missions took him across some of the most volatile regions on earth — war-torn African nations, the deserts of Iraq and Iran, the mountains of Afghanistan, and the fractured borders of Pakistan.

He flew into places where the maps were wrong, the runways were broken — or didn’t exist at all. Dirt strips carved out of the bush. Cratered airfields. Hostile skies where a single mistake could mean he would never fly again.

He transported surgeons into active combat zones, evacuated civilians under fire, delivered food and medicine to communities sealed off by conflict, and carried negotiators whose arrival could halt — or ignite — the next wave of violence. Every flight demanded absolute focus. Every descent could be a trap. Every takeoff could be the last.

The world he operated in was marked by radio silence, shifting threats, and moments where instinct drew the line between life and death. It was a life measured in seconds, choices, and the razor-thin margin between survival and disaster.

These experiences — the night storms, the shelling in Sudan… the close calls no report ever mentioned, the fragile humanity found in impossible places — became the backbone of the UN 090 thriller trilogy.

The story may be fiction.
The danger, the atmosphere, and the truth behind the missions are not.

Ingvar Andersson during a UN operation in West Africa in the early 2000s.

It was in moments like these — in the heat, the uncertainty, and the thin line between chaos and duty — that the story of United Nation 090 was born.”**