Last Light (Paragon Softcover Large Print Books) - Softcover

3.87

2,869 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0754090884 ISBN 13: 9780754090885

Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C, 2002

The best suspense writer to put pen to paper since Alistair MacLean” (Stephen Coonts) follows up the international bestselling Firewall with the most gripping and timely Nick Stone thriller yet.

Drawing on his experience as a member of Britain’s legendary Special Air Service, world-renowned Andy McNab “delivers authenticity in spades” (Publishers Weekly). “McNab’s greatest asset,” according to London’s Sunday Times, “is that the heart of his fiction is not fiction; other thriller writers do their research, but he has actually been there.”

Top-secret operative Nick Stone has just aborted his assassination assignment at the Houses of Parliament. Once he saw who his target was meant to be, he instinctively pulled out. Now Stone is in a world of trouble. His bosses have handed him a chilling ultimatum: fly to Panama and finish the job he’s just botched, or Kelly, the young orphan in his guardianship, will be killed.

Deep in the sweltering jungle of Central America, Stone quickly finds himself up to his neck in high-stakes action as he closes in on a lethal conspiracy involving Columbian guerrillas, the U.S. government, and Chinese big business. Only Stone can stop an international crisis. Caught in the wrong-headed schemes of world powers, with countless innocent lives hanging in the balance, Stone is forced to make the toughest decision of his life.
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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

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