Last Light: (Nick Stone Thriller 4) (Nick Stone, 4) - Softcover

McNab, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552163562 ISBN 13: 9780552163569

Publisher: Corgi, 2011

Synopsis

Last Light Nick Stone - deniable operator for British Intelligence - has been assigned to carry out an officially-sanctioned assassination. When he realizes who the target is, he refuses. But he is then given a chilling ultimatum: fly to Central America and finish the job, or the eleven-year-old orphan in his care will get killed. Full description

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Review:

Last Light is a resounding demonstration of Andy McNab's evolving abilities, offering a richer level of plotting, along with the customary well-turned rough stuff. McNab might initially have seemed to be some kind of briefly shining star in the bestseller firmament, his SAS experience and well-advertised pseudonym guaranteeing a couple of toughly authentic thrillers in the style of Bravo Two Zero, and no more. But such successive books as Firewall, Remote Control and Crisis Four have categorically demonstrated that he has more than enough top-flight skills to sustain a long writing career.

In Last Light, after terminating an officially approved assassination bid at the Houses of Parliament when he realises the identity of the intended target, McNab's hard-as-nails protagonist Nick Stone, "deniable operator" of the intelligence services, is severely disciplined by his bosses. He is told to travel to Panama and finish the job, or he and Kelly (the 11-year-old girl he is guarding) will be "taken care of" themselves. As Nick gets ready for his assignment in central America, he soon finds that his enemies have turned the tables on him: he is now the hunted, and finds himself up to his neck in a murky plot involving Colombian rebels and the US government. All the usual McNab fingerprints are here: not too much shading, but flinty characterisation and a barrel load of high-velocity action.--Barry Forshaw

Review:

"A heart-thumping read" (Daily Express)

"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 not 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: 0552163562
• ISBN 13: 9780552163569
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512