Crisis Four Andy McNab bestselling series of Nick Stone thrillers now available in the US with bonus material Andy McNab 9781910167335 Books
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Ex-SAS trooper Nick Stone is extremely highly trained. Clever, ruthless and very effective, it is no surprise that he is hired by British Intelligence. On deniable operations – one of the most dangerous lines of work. Sarah Greenwood is beautiful, intelligent and cunning – and the only woman Stone has ever truly opened up to. But now he has been ordered to hunt her down. Hotly pursued through the American wilderness, Stone finds himself at the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse. He must get to the heart of a terrifying conspiracy theory to which only Sarah holds the key. But will he manage to before the tension reaches boiling point? ‘When it comes to thrills, he’s Forsyth class’ Mail on Sunday
Crisis Four Andy McNab bestselling series of Nick Stone thrillers now available in the US with bonus material Andy McNab 9781910167335 Books
This is a second book in the Nick Stone series. Although reading the first book is not necessary to fully understand Crisis Four, it is useful. Besides, the previous book is quite good. I would even say that it is better than this one. The review that follows assumes that the reader had read Remote Control. Some spoilers might follow.Crisis Four starts in 1995 with Nick Stone taking part in a covert operation in Syria where he is assaulting a terrorist compound run by Osama bin Laden. Here we meet Sarah, who is sent along with Nick. Although the mission is a success, Sarah acts strangely and it becomes obvious to Nick that something fishy is going on.
Jump to 1998 and we meet Nick on an outing with Kelly. She lives now in a boarding school in England, but Nick has legal custody over her. Back when I was reading Remote Control, I did wonder how they were going to keep Kelly in the books. With her parents dead, I was expecting Kelly to be sent to live with her relatives. Well, apparently Kelly’s father left a clause in his will granting parental rights to Nick. What about Kelly’s mother? Didn’t she have any relatives who could contest this decision? In any case, while it is somewhat farfetched, I love Kelly as a character and I want her to stick around, so I am willing to accept it.
So Nick is out with Kelly when he gets a call to report for assignment. It appears that Sarah, who has been working in Washington for the past few years, went AWOL. Nick is tasked with finding her. It is at this point that we learn that the two have met in the 1980s in Afghanistan and had an affair. Nick fell in love with her, but she was sleeping with him only to use him for her own ends.
So Nick goes to US to find Sarah. He locates her rather quickly. She is living in a house in the woods with five Middle Eastern men. Nick reports her location and gets the order to kill her. He sneaks inside the house at night, but things get chaotic and he ends up fighting the men and kidnapping Sarah. As the two of them are running through the woods trying to slip past police pursuit, Sarah confides in him about an assassination plot to kill Benjamin Netanyahu and Yassir Arafat (Both are visiting Washington at that time for a peace meeting.) and about a conspiracy at the highest level of the international intelligence community. The two of them must now not only escape from police, but race in time to Washington to stop the assassination. Except, can Sarah be trusted? She is cold, ruthless, intelligent and manipulative. What if she is playing Nick like she did in Afghanistan? And what of his order to kill her?
Read the book and you will find out.
I will start with what I like about this book. The first one, just as in Remote Control, is a detailed wealth of information about covert ops techniques. The author, in case someone does not know, is the legendary Andy McNab, who himself was a SAS soldier and black ops operative. So he knows what he is talking about. The second thing I like is Nick’s humanity. In Crisis Four we get a good look at what is going on inside his head. In the previous book he was a hunted man protecting a child; he didn’t have a lot of time for second guessing himself and introspection. Here, although the action flows fast, Nick has more time for private thoughts. He is also working with a woman whom he hates but (deep inside) still loves. He is ordered to kill her, but at the same time he wants to protect her. But can he trust her? That causes a lot of turmoil inside him.
Nor is he a superman. He himself acknowledges that he often fails. And indeed a lot of what happens in the book happens precisely because he makes a mistake or suffers from bad luck. What makes him such a great operative is that he improvises in order to get himself out of trouble.
There are some things I don’t like, however. The author sometimes makes references to British pop culture, and these are mostly lost on non-Brits. There are also some funny scenes and lines of dialogue that appear forced. They are funny, yes, but I get the impression that the author had out them there just to create humor. A little bit of humor is good once in a while, but this is supposed to be a serious action-spy thriller. (Or is it? Perhaps my interpretation of what this book should be is wrong?) Oh. And almost everybody we meet in the book is some sort of weirdo, eccentric or quirky. Are there any normal people left? (Then again, what is normal anyway?)
These are minor points, however. My biggest complaint is with the whole assassination plot. Personally, I don’t like stories where the stakes are so high. The previous book was about a bunch of corrupt cops murdering witnesses to cover their crimes. The plot was believable and down to earth. It might have gone in any number of directions. Here I know right from the beginning that Netanyahu and Arafat will not die because these two were still alive and well at the time when this book was being written. The author was not going to write a story set in a parallel universe where Netanyahu and Arafat die in 1998 assassinated in the White House. So the question was never whether or not the plot was going to succeed, but how it was going to fail. In my opinion that seriously limits the direction in which the story can be taken.
Overall I preferred the previous book because Kelly and Nick were spending more time together, but Crisis Four is also very good. I give it four and a half stars.
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Crisis Four Andy McNab bestselling series of Nick Stone thrillers now available in the US with bonus material Andy McNab 9781910167335 Books Reviews
For Nick Stone, but he's much tougher than James Bond ever thought of being. And if his character continues to develop, one day he'll turn into a real boy. A poor joke, my point is that Nick continues to grow as a character. I look forward to the third book.
2.5 Stars – The second Nick Stone mission – coming to America to whack former lover and bad girl/scientist. Very unsatisfying ending, which spoils a relatively fast-paced adventure. A real let-down.
Well written story but the main character seemed to have a very limited and profane vocabulary. So unnecessary entertaining read but could have been a great read.
Too much ancillary stuff. Too much extranious book before starting Crisis Four. Too much preview of next McNab book made starting and end difficult. I will not read another McNab book.
Former SAS operative Nick Stone is an assassin and one you want by your side in a firefight or dark alley- tough, innovative, ruthless and not one who always follows instructions. This is a fast paced black ops anti-terrorist storyline that is off the books. There is murder, treachery, numerous twists and turns as well as a bit of romance. I look forward to reading his next assignment in Book 3.
I thought this book was a great ride. The protagonist, Nick Stone, is a believable hero because he has many flaws that lead him to have uncertainty in employment, financial issues, poor relationships etc. Just like a real person. For this reason, I found this book, and others in the Nick Stone series, to be much more real than almost all the characters you would meet in the big names of spy thriller fiction like Clancy, Forsyth, Ludlum or Fleming.
Action sequences in the book are riveting and have a very realistic feel to them. I think McNab has a big advantage here over other writers because of his real life experience as a highly decorated soldier.
Unlike the other reviewer, I didn't think that most of the book was predictable. However, it is inevitable that any book in this genre is going to have to reach a conclusion and there are only a finite number to choose from - so some people are going to correctly guess the ending. I did not guess it 100% but definitely had my suspicions.
If you are looking for a book that is going to make you think, re-evaluate your beliefs or make you a better person - keep looking. This is a gripping thriller that tells an entertaining story and does not pretend to be anything more.
Loved it! Don't know how I could read for so many years before I ran into Andy Mcnabb! I've finished the first in series and have ordered the fifth one. Mcnabb tells the story as if he's been there & if you read his Bio, he has. Interesting how the locale changes from book to book. You'd suspect a UK authors stories would be in the UK, but no, I've been in the USA, Finland, Panama, not just the UK. Read it, you'll like it!
This is a second book in the Nick Stone series. Although reading the first book is not necessary to fully understand Crisis Four, it is useful. Besides, the previous book is quite good. I would even say that it is better than this one. The review that follows assumes that the reader had read Remote Control. Some spoilers might follow.
Crisis Four starts in 1995 with Nick Stone taking part in a covert operation in Syria where he is assaulting a terrorist compound run by Osama bin Laden. Here we meet Sarah, who is sent along with Nick. Although the mission is a success, Sarah acts strangely and it becomes obvious to Nick that something fishy is going on.
Jump to 1998 and we meet Nick on an outing with Kelly. She lives now in a boarding school in England, but Nick has legal custody over her. Back when I was reading Remote Control, I did wonder how they were going to keep Kelly in the books. With her parents dead, I was expecting Kelly to be sent to live with her relatives. Well, apparently Kelly’s father left a clause in his will granting parental rights to Nick. What about Kelly’s mother? Didn’t she have any relatives who could contest this decision? In any case, while it is somewhat farfetched, I love Kelly as a character and I want her to stick around, so I am willing to accept it.
So Nick is out with Kelly when he gets a call to report for assignment. It appears that Sarah, who has been working in Washington for the past few years, went AWOL. Nick is tasked with finding her. It is at this point that we learn that the two have met in the 1980s in Afghanistan and had an affair. Nick fell in love with her, but she was sleeping with him only to use him for her own ends.
So Nick goes to US to find Sarah. He locates her rather quickly. She is living in a house in the woods with five Middle Eastern men. Nick reports her location and gets the order to kill her. He sneaks inside the house at night, but things get chaotic and he ends up fighting the men and kidnapping Sarah. As the two of them are running through the woods trying to slip past police pursuit, Sarah confides in him about an assassination plot to kill Benjamin Netanyahu and Yassir Arafat (Both are visiting Washington at that time for a peace meeting.) and about a conspiracy at the highest level of the international intelligence community. The two of them must now not only escape from police, but race in time to Washington to stop the assassination. Except, can Sarah be trusted? She is cold, ruthless, intelligent and manipulative. What if she is playing Nick like she did in Afghanistan? And what of his order to kill her?
Read the book and you will find out.
I will start with what I like about this book. The first one, just as in Remote Control, is a detailed wealth of information about covert ops techniques. The author, in case someone does not know, is the legendary Andy McNab, who himself was a SAS soldier and black ops operative. So he knows what he is talking about. The second thing I like is Nick’s humanity. In Crisis Four we get a good look at what is going on inside his head. In the previous book he was a hunted man protecting a child; he didn’t have a lot of time for second guessing himself and introspection. Here, although the action flows fast, Nick has more time for private thoughts. He is also working with a woman whom he hates but (deep inside) still loves. He is ordered to kill her, but at the same time he wants to protect her. But can he trust her? That causes a lot of turmoil inside him.
Nor is he a superman. He himself acknowledges that he often fails. And indeed a lot of what happens in the book happens precisely because he makes a mistake or suffers from bad luck. What makes him such a great operative is that he improvises in order to get himself out of trouble.
There are some things I don’t like, however. The author sometimes makes references to British pop culture, and these are mostly lost on non-Brits. There are also some funny scenes and lines of dialogue that appear forced. They are funny, yes, but I get the impression that the author had out them there just to create humor. A little bit of humor is good once in a while, but this is supposed to be a serious action-spy thriller. (Or is it? Perhaps my interpretation of what this book should be is wrong?) Oh. And almost everybody we meet in the book is some sort of weirdo, eccentric or quirky. Are there any normal people left? (Then again, what is normal anyway?)
These are minor points, however. My biggest complaint is with the whole assassination plot. Personally, I don’t like stories where the stakes are so high. The previous book was about a bunch of corrupt cops murdering witnesses to cover their crimes. The plot was believable and down to earth. It might have gone in any number of directions. Here I know right from the beginning that Netanyahu and Arafat will not die because these two were still alive and well at the time when this book was being written. The author was not going to write a story set in a parallel universe where Netanyahu and Arafat die in 1998 assassinated in the White House. So the question was never whether or not the plot was going to succeed, but how it was going to fail. In my opinion that seriously limits the direction in which the story can be taken.
Overall I preferred the previous book because Kelly and Nick were spending more time together, but Crisis Four is also very good. I give it four and a half stars.
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