Firewall: (Nick Stone Thriller 3) (Nick Stone, 3) - Softcover

McNab, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552163554 ISBN 13: 9780552163552

Publisher: Corgi, 2011

Synopsis

Tough, resourceful and ruthless, ex-SAS trooper Nick Stone is now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations. And is desperately in need of cash.

When he is offered a lucrative freelance job, Stone thinks his problems are over. All he needs to do is kidnap a Russian mafia warlord.

And so Stone is thrust into the grim underworld of Estonia, with unknown aggressors stalking the Arctic landscape. Russia has launched a cyber-espionage attack, hacking into the West's most sensitive military secrets. Stone must stop them. But the mafia are waiting in the wings with their own chillingly brutal solution...

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Review:

All freelances have problems when work dries up, but Nick Stone, hero of Andy McNab's second adventure thriller Firewall has worse problems than most of us. Expensively trained by the SAS, he now works for British Intelligence as a deniable operative, and he needs a regular income to take care of his responsibilities, which include psychiatric care for a traumatised orphan. He takes a lucrative mercenary job kidnapping a leading Chechen Mafioso; when the job goes sour, his victim is impressed by his grace under pressure and hires him to baby-sit a computer espionage expert on a jaunt into Finland. Not all is as it seems--Nick was engaged in wishful thinking to believe it was--and he finds himself adrift with little money and no weapons in Estonia in the dead of winter with a friend to rescue, the interests of the West to retrieve and, if possible, money to earn... This is an effective thriller because of the clash between its hero's competence and his less than entire brightness--Nick gets himself into messes and then gets out of them because of skills in combat, disguise and survival. This is a book filled with adrenaline-pumping excitement and a sense of bitterly cold places. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"McNab is a terrific novelist. When it comes to thrills, he's Forsyth class" (Mail on Sunday)

"McNab's great asset is that the heart of his fiction is non-fiction: other thriller writers do their research, but he has actually been there" (The Sunday Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Corgi
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0552163554
• ISBN 13: 9780552163552
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576