Last Light - Softcover

McNab, Andy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074340629X ISBN 13: 9780743406291

Publisher: Pocket Books, 2003

Synopsis

Former SAS commando Andy McNab returns in electrifying form with his newest international bestselling novel Last Light Top-secret operative Nick Stone has just aborted a sanctioned assassination attempt at the Houses of Parliament -- and now he's in a world of trouble. His bosses have handed him an ultimatum: fly to Panama and finish the contract -- or Kelly, the young orphan in his guardianship, will die. With no way out, Stone travels to the sweltering jungles of Central America, landing up to his neck in high-stakes action as he closes in on the key players in a global conspiracy of death involving Colombian guerrillas, the U.S. government, and Chinese corporate powers. With countless lives hanging in the balance, and time running short, Stone is forced to make the toughest decision of all: Who lives, and who dies?

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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:

‘Gripping stuff ... Nick Stone makes Action Man look like a couch potato.’ Daily Express

‘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.’ Sunday Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 074340629X
• ISBN 13: 9780743406291
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 400