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du réel, intrigue suspense
Écrit à la première personne, ce roman d'un agent du SAS britannique est une perle dans le genre. Crédible, réaliste, bourré de détails pertinents, on en apprend beaucoup sur la manière de faire des agents spéciaux et du monde du contre-espionnage militaire. Les personnages sont attachants et presque palpables. Le roman se savoure en une nuit tant la tension et l'intrigue sont bien menées. ... Read more

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A former member of the UK's elite Special Air Service, the SAS, this best-selling author has seen action on five continents. His thrillers are so chillingly authentic that he is the first British author ever required to submit one of his novels to the British Ministry of Defense for review. Nick Stone, highly trained by the SAS to be methodical and ruthless, now works as a secret agent in "deniable" operations. His current assignment is to hunt down and kill Sarah, the only woman he has ever cared for. But in order to fulfill his mission, he first has to help her escape from the members of a conspiracy to which only she holds the key. Fleeing with Sarah through the backwoods of the American South, Nick is headed for a confrontation beyond anything he could have imagined. Prepare for a new kind of listening experience where violence and cunning are so real that you have to keep reminding yourself this is only fiction. ... Read more

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The Gulf War.On the night of January 22 1991 eight SAS men set off from Saudi Arabia on a two-fold mission: to sever the links between Baghdad and north-west Iraq. ... Read more

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Kickin in Iraq
Awesome. Imagine trapped 200 miles in Iraq, pursued by the enemy and no place to hide. "Mcnabb" captures the true essence of combat mission accomplishment, even when things don't go as planned. It's written to make the reader feel like he is the 9th member of the team. Highly recommended!

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Better than fiction ,reality in the fog of war. A heroic story
Bravo 20 was a British special forces unit sent deep into Iraq during Desert Storm. Compromised by faulty intelligence, faulty radios and an unexpected enemy force, they were forced to attempt an overland escape across Iraq in the middle of a war.


The author has done a great job of capturing the essence of the SAS, oneof a few true elite combat units in the world.The fact that he can writethe story in the first person adds to the tension.The adventure is agreat story and a reality check for those who thought that the electronicage ended the fog of war.For those tired of a world where self esteemis taught in classes as a substitute for competence and performance this isthe perfect cure.

I thought the book was much more infomative and dramatic than the movie.

Bravo Two Zero
Not a bad read at all... I enjoy a rough & tough action novel, fiction or factual, but this book was excellent, I found myself ingrossed in every turning page, would highly recommend this book along with such titles as'The operators' & 'Bandit Country'... Keep it real!

OUTSTANDING STORY OF MEN IN WAR
A TRUE ACCOUNT OF SAS MEN DURING THE GULF WAR THE MISSION AND WHAT WENT WRONG TORTURE BY IRAQS SECRET POLICE SO MUCH FOR THE GENEVA CONVENTION DEEPLY SAD AND FUNNY LOOK OUT FOR A BBC VIDEO STARING SEAN BEAN

Most Amazing Thing I Have Read
The start is a bit dry, but soon the action starts and never stops until the last page. You will never put it down until you are done, guaranteed.You want to know who the real heroes are, just read this book and you'll see.Its the men, and sometimes women, who put there lives on the linelike these guys did and sometimes have there families and health ruinedbecause of it. Start reading and I promise you won't be disappointed. ... Read more

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Nick Stone is a deniable asset to British Intelligence. His refusal to assassinate an individual in the Houses of Parliament leads to a chilling ultimatum from his bosses. Either he finishes the job, or Kelly, the 11-year old girl in his guardianship, will surely die. ... Read more

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A Nick Stone mission from Andy McNab
Just another in a great series, I love all the Nick Stone books by Andy McNab.The best action/adventure writer around today.

More real action in each chapter than most authors...
... produce in a lifetime.Mr. McNab's SAS training and the degree to which he absorbed it and can recreate that type of thinking on the page combine to make a nearly unparalleled reading experience.His protagonists are far more capable, observant, knowledgeable, experienced, and (his term) switched-on than any I've met in other books.There is simply no comparison between how Nick Stone here sees, thinks, and works, and how your average thriller author imagines it might go.Last Light is so dense with pure thought, planning, detail, and tradecraft that I could hardly point to an outstanding passage.It's all good.That people like Mr. McNab exist and can do what he describes so expertly is astonishing.Thanks so much for putting this on paper, Mr. McNab.And by the way - you and your mates are awesome.Glad you're in our camp.

Having said all that, this book does suffer from plot super-sizing.Just as in Crisis Four, Mr. McNab creates a huge conspiracy within which his agent thrashes around, and which the author simply can't resolve.It's too bad because if he just crafted the story of some mission without global complications it would be a jewel.As it is, Last Light abruptly ends in confused mid-plot.Why can't Nick be on a legit SAS mission instead of having it all forced out of him by the powers that be?

And the backstory of Kelly, which I suppose is there to make Nick more of a person (and to provide plot hooks) soon becomes tiresome.I'm not interested in Nick Stone as a struggling surrogate father - but I'll be reading every page I can find describing him in the field.It's just too good to miss.

An added benny of Mr. McNab's writing is that you get some thoughtful and highly observant commentary on the environments in which his agent moves.Last Light taught me a lot about Panama and the Canal situation.The downside to his books is that you can't face another action novel for a while, because you know that even a good one will be dishwater next to this.

Last Light
This is the first Andy McNab book that I have read.I doubt I will read another.His writing is not very gripping and the ending is simply a set up for the next book.His repetitive use of some descriptive phrases actually detracted from his writing style.For example, I lost count of the number of times he used the phrase "threw it down my neck" to describe eating.The first time was clever.After ten or so, it became irritating.

Nick Stone the Human, not Nick Stone the Soldier
Last Light is the fourth in the series of books written by Andy McNab.The whole series of books is great and this is no exception.Andy McNab obviously decided when writing this book that he needed to give his character some extra depth.In this book we see Nick Stone make some serious human decisions.

After reading this book you come away with a lesson in survival, in a way it teaches you jungle tracking skills and gives you a good insight into how special operations are coordinated.If you're an SAS or any kind of Special Forces enthusiast it's a good read just to get inside the mind of a professional elite soldier.

I enjoyed this book greatly, the plot keeps you guessing, and its never obvious what's going to happen.Am not going to spoil the book am sure if you want to find out what its about you just read the Amazon.com review but if you enjoyed the rest of the Nick Stone series this book is going to make you very happy.

4 Stars

Last Light and maybe a lost series
After reading and enjoying Andy McNab�s first two books, Remote Control and Crisis Four with the continuing Nick Stone character I thought I had found a new series. Both were well written featuring interesting characters and plenty of action along with a complex mystery and plot. Andy McNab is a former Commando in the British SAS so he brings an incredible authenticity to the work. When he describes a gun working a certain way or other key details, you know he did not research it off the Internet or found it in some book; he lived it. But, his last book Firewall was a disappointment especially when compared to the first two. Unfortunately, that trend continues in this recent effort.

As this novel opens, Nick Stone has put himself unknowingly into harm�s way once again. Desperate for money for himself as well as for treating Kelly (his orphan whose entire family was massacred because of his mistake) he has accepted a contract assassination job from The Firm. The target will appear outside the Houses of Parliament in London, England in what seems to be an officially sanctioned hit at the highest levels of the United States and Britain�s governments. Unbeknownst to him, the assassination is one very small part of a much bigger picture that will turn into a trap.

Nick is seconds away from the kill shot when he aborts the attempt for a variety of reasons. Police swarm the area and while he escapes the initial gun battle with police he soon comes under their custody before being transferred to his very unhappy employers. They make their feelings physically known to him before giving him one more chance. The target will be in Panama for the next week. Nick is to go to Panama, surveil the target and complete the assassination, this time without fail. The target must be dead by the last light on Friday evening or they will kill Kelly.

Soon Nick is in Panama and what should have been an action oriented read (despite the nonsense on the back jacket) takes a hard turn into the boredom zone. Along with Columbian guerrillas, United States Government interests, Chinese business interests, politics and the environmental movement become major characters in the work. The action slows to a near halt in the muddy jungles of Panama around the Canal Zone as various characters discuss politics and environmental policy with Nick. Unfortunately, the politics and environmental policy situation are old news for any reader who remotely pays attention to world events and as such, raises the boredom factor substantially. The arguments go on for page after mind numbing page and even after all the discussion and lectures, no solutions are offered to at least to attempt to make the preceding pages have some merit on any level.

That fact along with the fact that the ending is amazingly vague and open ended to create the need for a sequel for all the characters, major and minor, makes this novel the absolute worst of the series to date. While the first two books were good and the third mediocre at best, the fall in this one is amazing. It comes across as the literary equivalent of base-jumping without a parachute. Hopefully, this is as bad as it gets, but Andy McNab is running out of time to save the series from himself. ... Read more

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