Andy McNab - Dark Winter

SUMMARY:
When maverick agent Nick Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a shadowy biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden's network of terror. But there are complications not least the attractive woman who he is working alongside. Target neutralized, Stone returns to the USA and a maelstrom of personal problems. Kelly, the fourteen-year-old orphan to whom he is joint guardian, cannot escape the ghosts of her traumatic past; she has a prescription drug habit that's spiralling out of control, and Stone knows he is the only one who can help her. He takes her to recuperate in England, but the terrible consequences of what happened in Penang are never far behind. Before very long, the conspiracy he has uncovered unravels to reveal a doomsday threat against the populations of New York, London and Berlin. And Stone finds himself facing the ultimate trade-off: the life of someone he loves, against those of millions he doesn't even know...

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DARK WINTER

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ANDY McNAB

In 1984 he was badged as a member of 22 SAS Regiment.

Over the course of the next nine years he was at the centre of covert operations on five continents.

During the first Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, will remain in regimental history for ever.

Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career.

McNab was the British Armys most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993.

He is now the author of ten bestselling thrillers.

BRAVO TWO ZERO

In January 1991 , eight members of the SAS regiment, under the command of Sergeant Andy McNab, embarked upon a top secret mission in Iraq to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Their call sign: Bravo Two Zero. Within days, their location was compromised. In the fire-fight that followed four men were captured. Three died. Only one escaped. For the survivors the worst was to come when they were tortured with a savagery for which not even their intensive SAS training had prepared them.

One of the most extraordinary examples of human courage and survival in modern warfare

The Times

The best account of the SAS in action

Sunday Times

IMMEDIATE ACTION

The noholdsbarred account of an extraordinary life, from the day McNab as a baby was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guys Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War. As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a young soldier he waged war against the IRA in the streets and fields of South Armagh.

A richly detailed picture of life in the SAS

Sunday Telegraph

The real thing... The strength of Immediate Action lies in its detail

The Times

Nick Stone , exSAS trooper, now gunforhire working on deniable ops for the British government, is the perfect man for the dirtiest of jobs, doing whatever it takes by whatever means necessary...

REMOTE CONTROL

Dateline: Washington DC, USA

Stone is drawn into the bloody killing of an exSAS officer and his family and soon finds himself on the run with the one survivor who can identify the killer a nine-year-old girl.

Proceeds with a testosterone surge

Daily Telegraph

CRISIS FOUR

Dateline: North Carolina, USA

In the backwoods of the American South, Stone has to keep alive the beautiful young woman who holds the key to unlock a chilling conspiracy that will threaten world peace.

When it comes to thrills, hes Forsyth class

Mail on Sunday

FIREWALL

Dateline: Finland

The kidnapping of a Russian Mafia warlord takes Stone into the heart of the global espionage world and into conflict with some of the most dangerous killers around.

Other thriller writers do their research, but McNab has actually been there

Sunday Times

LAST LIGHT

Dateline: Panama

Stone finds himself at the centre of a lethal conspiracy involving ruthless Columbian mercenaries, the US government and Chinese big business. Its an uncomfortable place to be...

A heart thumping read

Mail on Sunday

LIBERATION DAY

Dateline: Cannes, France

Behind its glamorous exterior, the citys seething underworld is the battleground for a very dirty drugs war and Stone must reach deep within himself to fight it on their terms.

McNabs great asset is that the heart of his fiction is nonfiction

Sunday Times

DARK WINTER