I always find Andy McNab [Nick Stone] great escapism, and this one was better than many because he was not geting bossed around by women or hooked into a relationship, which often brings the plot down to the mundane.

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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.From the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero, Andy McNab, comes an explosive new thriller that is so close to home, it will leave you wondering what is fact and what is fiction! Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS. As a member of 22 SAS he was at the centre of covert operations for nine years - on five continents. It’s almost like he’s had a reset over the last two or three books and events from before that are irrelevant.

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McNab's subsequent thrillers, Crisis Four, Firewall, Last Light , Liberation Day , Dark Winter , Deep Black and Aggressor have all gone on to sell equally well. Although his back up characters, whilst excellent, in the book may not be much help when physical help is needed. What he didn’t expect is to have a journey, an internal one, when he has the environment to think through his life and what he really cares about in life. Nick is as down to earth and resourceful as ever, but with a serious moral conscience that he’s never shown before.The BBC's film of Bravo Two Zero, starring Sean Bean, was shown on primetime BBC 1 television in 1999 and released on DVD in 2000. Immediate Action, McNab's autobiography, spent 18 weeks at the top of the bestseller lists following the lifting on an ex-parte injunction granted to the Ministry of Defence in September 1995.

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While some action is a word perfect repeat of previous methods of hand to hand combat, it both feels familiar in an 'old friend ' way and is quite a likely scenario for a desperate exSAS operative to revert to what has worked before. Travelling to the frozen depths of Northern Russia, all he needs to do is assassinate the sinister cult leader and bring the woman home alive. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work.Some good action and supense, and narrator Paul Thornley is always so convincing as the voice of Nick Stone, in fact Mr McNab should also sound like Mr Thornley! We celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories, traditions and living cultures; and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. When I first started reading the Andy McNab books, I found them quite hard, I'm not sure why, but they didn't flow that well.

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In Northern Ireland he spent two years working as an undercover operator with 14th Intelligence Group, going on to become an instructor. If this is, indeed, the last Nick Stone book, the author has rewarded his readers with a very tepid end. From the day he was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital in London, Andy McNab has led an extraordinary life. Started off as a good read but fell off in my eyes when he reached the settlement where Mary ‘was being held’.A sinister cult Tasked with rescuing the daughter of one of America's richest families from the grips of a sinister cult, Nick Stone expects his latest mission to be quick and straightforward. Nick soon discovers himself at the heart of a chilling cyber conspiracy that threatens war with Russia and the very existence of the Western alliance and following a shock diagnosis his body is failing fast.