Authors: Andy McNab

Remote Control (2 page)

Stone is drawn into the bloody killing of an ex – SAS 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, he’s 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. It’s an uncomfortable place to be . . .

‘A heart thumping read’

Mail on Sunday

LIBERATION DAY

Dateline:
Cannes, France

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

‘McNab’s great asset is that the heart of his fiction is non – fiction’

Sunday Times

DARK WINTER

Dateline:
Malaysia

A straightforward action on behalf of the War on Terror turns into a race to escape his past for Stone if he is to save himself and those closest to him.

‘Addictive . . . Packed with wild action and revealing tradecraft’

Daily Telegraph

DEEP BLACK

Dateline:
Bosnia

All too late Stone realizes that he is being used as bait to lure into the open a man whom the darker forces of the West will stop at nothing to destroy.

‘One of the UK’s top thriller writers’

Daily Express

AGGRESSOR

Dateline:
Georgia, former Soviet Union

A longstanding debt of friendship to an SAS comrade takes Stone on a journey where he will have to risk everything to repay what he owes, even his life . . .

‘A terrific novelist’

Mail on Sunday

RECOIL

Dateline:
The Congo, Africa

What starts out as a personal quest for a missing woman quickly becomes a headlong rush from his own past for Stone.

‘Stunning . . . A first class action thriller’

The Sun

CROSSFIRE

Dateline:
Kabul

Nick Stone enters the modern day wild west that is Afghanistan in search of a kidnapped reporter.

‘Authentic to the core . . . McNab at his electrifying best’

Daily Express

Glossary

ASU

active service unit

ATO

ammunitions technical officer

basha

improvised shelter

bergen

pack carried by British forces on active service

bodyguard

blue-and-white

police car

CTR

close target reconnaissance

counter-terrorism

defence attaché

DEA

Drug Enforcement Administration

Det

abbreviation for detachment. Subunit of 14 Intelligence Group, which is a covert intelligence – gathering organization operating in Northern Ireland

the Firm

Secret Intelligence Service

gypsy’s warning

final warning

head shed

nickname for anyone in authority. From Malaya days, this is what any form of leadership in the Regiment has been called, after the term for the start of the river course.

operator on deniable ops

LCN

La Cosa Nostra

LOSO

liaison officer, special operations

MoD

Ministry of Defence

OPSEC

operational security

PIRA

Provisional Irish Republican Army

RHQ