Nick Stone ex SAS, now with British Intelligence , discovers the seemingly sensless murders of fellow SAS soldier Kev Brown and his family in Washington, DC. Only Kelly, seven years old, has survived, and immediately the two of them are on the run from unidentified pursuers.
Nick Stone Series
Follow the journey of an elite special forces operative walking the line between right and wrong. This series plunges you into a world of espionage, covert operations, and international conflicts. Each installment delivers a thrilling narrative packed with action, unexpected twists, and moral quandaries. Delve into the psyche of a protagonist dedicated to protecting his country at any cost.
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Crisis Four
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
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?
Firewall
- 576 pages
- 21 hours of reading
Nick Stone is offered enough money to mean he won't have to work again. The work involves recovering stolen sensitive military secrets from Russian organised crime. In Finland Stone discovers that he's a pawn in a much bigger game than he had imagined.
Last Light
- 512 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Nick Stone - deniable operator for British Intelligence - has been assigned to carry out an officially-sanctioned assassination. But he has a critically injured friend to rescue, miles of dense rainforest to navigate and the toughest decision of his life to make...
December 2001. A Zodiac inflatable slips away from a submarine off the Algerian coast. If he hadn't needed American citizenship so badly, Nick Stone wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job, but the CIA's offer of a new life in the United States is one he cannot refuse. The job seems simple enough for a man of his particular skills: kill a money-laundering local businessman and bring back his severed head to the West. But Stone has not been told the full story - in realtiy the job has only just begun. Operating in the dangerous underworld of the South of France, he is in at the deep end of a very dirty war. And in the most daunting mission he has yet undertaken, as one bloody twist leads to another, Stone ultimately finds himself confronted by the most desperate dilemma a man could ever face.
Dark winter
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
When maverick agent Nick Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a shadowy biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Osama Bin Laden’s network of terror. But there are complications - not least the attractive woman who he is working alongside. Target neutral
Nick Stone’s future looks bleak. The only person he’s ever loved is dead. The only people who might save him have turned their backs.Until a chance encounter reunited him with a man whose life he saved 10 years ago.What seems a simple quest in Baghdad takes Stone into the heart of a chilling conspiracy, from violent Bosnia, through lightening-paced action in Iraq. But too late, he realizes that he is being used as bait to lure into the open a man he believes can offer some salvation. A man whom the darker forces of the West will stop at nothing to destroy...Reviews:“Andy McNab knows where his strengths lie, and it's not just in his biceps... Only people who have not read this book could suggest that he is not a fine writer. It is a heart-thumping read” - Daily Express (UK)“McNab is the best suspense thriller writer to put pen to paper since Alistair MacLean” - Stephen Coonts“McNab is a terrific novelist. When it comes to thrills, he’s Forsyth class” - Mail on Sunday (UK)“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 (UK) (less)
Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone seems to be living his dream, not a care in the world as he steers his camper van round the surfing and parachuting paradise of Australia, a board on the roof, a freefall rig behind him, and a beautiful young backpacker at his side.But when he sees a news report of the massacre of women and children in a terrorist outrage the other side of the world, long-suppressed memories are triggered, and Nick knows he must risk everything to repay a longstanding debt of friendship.As events unfold in the bleak, medieval villages of Georgia and teeming streets of modern Istanbul, Nick finds himself catapulted once more into the murky, clandestine world he thought he'd left behind - a world in the grip of nameless enemies who linger in the shadows, and stalk the corridors of power...Hurtled at breakneck pace through a deadly landscape of greed, violence and ever-shifting allegiances, the reader will be left in no doubt that McNab is the master of the genre - and Aggressor shows McNab at his searing, blockbusting best.
Recoil
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
Recuperating in Switzerland after a job that cost the life of one of his closest friends, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone is looking for a quiet life. But when his private life starts to disintegrate, Nick is reluctantly forced back into action. The trail leads him to Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it isn't long before his dark past comes knocking on his door. . . Recoil is another pulsating example of modern thriller writing at its very best: compelling, authentic and utterly real. McNab has worked for many years behind the headlines and he knows only too well what makes them...
Crossfire
- 512 pages
- 18 hours of reading
"Bodyguarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack. Only the reporter's swift action saves his life. When the reporter vanishes within hours, presumed kidnapped, Stone is asked by the Intelligence Service to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to London, Dublin, and ultimately Kabul--the dark and brutal city where governments, terrorism and big business collide. Caught in the crossfire, Stone's nightmare is only just beginning--for the hunter has suddenly become the hunted ..."--Page 4 of cover
Brute Force
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Days after his car erupts in a ball of flame, Nick Stone narrowly cheats death a second time when a gunman opens fire on him from the back of a motorcycle. Who knows his movements? Who wants him dead, and why? Stone's only chance of survival is to carry the fight to his attackers - but first he must uncover a trail of clues that leads from his own dark and complex past into the heart of a chilling conspiracy that threatens us all...
Exit Wound
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
The breathtaking new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero.Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold sit in an unguarded warehouse in Dubai. For two of Nick Stone's closest ex-SAS comrades, it was to have been the perfect, victimless crime. But when they're double-crossed and the robbery goes devastatingly wrong, only Stone can identify his friends' killer and track him down.As one harrowing piece of the complex and sinister jigsaw slots into another, Stone's quest for vengeance becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy.Ticking like a time-bomb, brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption, cover-up and blistering suspense — the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.
The pulsating new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero. A terrorist group is on the brink of obtaining a code that will jam every item of military hardware from Washington to Kabul. Jets and helicopters will fall from the sky. Communications and weapons systems will fail. The West will be brought to its knees. Only one man can find and stop the perpetrator -- but for the first time in his life Nick Stone doesn't want to play ball.
Dead Centre
- 416 pages
- 15 hours of reading
The new Nick Stone thriller from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero. January 2005: Nick Stone is in tsunami hit Banda Aceh on a job to retrieve incriminating evidence of an oil deal. When looters arrive a fight breaks out and a man, Mong, is killed. Nick makes a promise to his dead friend to protect his widow, Tracey. March 2011: Nick is in Moscow filling his days at a private gun range when he is lifted by heavies and taken to meet an oligarch. The oligarch wants Nick to track down his kidnapped wife and son. It transpires that the oligarch has married Tracey and so Nick is given the opportunity to fulfil his promise to Mong. Nick follows the trail from Mogadishu to Nairobi, from Courchevelski to Bristol, on a mission to unravel this complex and explosive plot. He eventually tracks down Tracey and her son and leads a rescue mission, all guns blazing, only to find that Tracey is dead and the boy is missing. There's only one man the boy can be with, and one place, which only Nick knows... Nick goes after him, and he has vengeance to wreak.
Silencer
- 536 pages
- 19 hours of reading
Nick Stone has always kept his job as ex-SAS trouble shooter at arms' length from his home life. But when his son falls dangerously ill and the doctor who saves him comes under threat from an old adversary, it is no longer possible. Nick Stone has two decades of operational skills - but this time, that may not be enough...
For valour
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Ex-SAS and ex-Black Ops operative Nick Stone returns in a gripping adventure. After a young trooper is shot in the head at the Regiment's Killing House, Stone, just back from Moscow and grappling with the safety of his girlfriend and baby son, is well-positioned to investigate the incident. His deep understanding of Special Forces and emotional detachment should keep him undercover. However, within forty-eight hours, a second death thrusts him into the crosshairs of an unknown assassin determined to guard a secret that threatens the very establishment Stone has fought to protect. As the clock ticks, he races from a secluded Welsh confessional to Glencoe, where echoes of murder and betrayal linger, and then to Southern Spain. His quest reveals a chain of events tracing back to an Afghan hillside, where a friend was brutally killed by the Taliban, leaving a haunting legacy. This heart-stopping journey compels readers to confront the fine line between sacrifice and suicide, to share the nightmares entwined with heroism, and to recognize the true cost of loyalty-driven actions.
Ex-SAS, ex-Black Ops, Nick Stone returns and this time he wants vengeance. At any cost. Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone has spent a lifetime in harm's way -- but when someone he cares for very deeply is murdered in cold blood, he can no longer just take the pain. A high-level internecine conflict at the dark heart of the resurgent Russian Empire and an assassin's bullet on an isolated Alpine pass? propel him from an apparently run-of-the-mill close-protection task into his most brutal and challenging mission yet. As the body count increases, Stone becomes one of Europe's Most Wanted. He must evade the elite police forces of three nations in his pursuit of faceless men who trade in human misery, and a lone wolf terrorist who threatens to unleash the Western World's worst nightmare. Vengeance of the most explosive kind is top of Stone's agenda. The fuse has been ignited - but who really holds the detonator?
Cold Blood
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Another rip-roaring read that fans will devour. Sun
Line of Fire
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
'Like the best action films in book form' FHM Nick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he's very, very wrong. Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a devil's bargain. In exchange for his own safety - a life for a life - Stone is charged with locating someone who doesn't want to be found, currently hiding out in the one of the remotest corners of the UK. And for the first time in a long time, he's not operating alone. But Stone and his team don't find just anyone. They find a world-class hacker, so good that her work might threaten the stability of the western world as we know it. These are dangerous waters and Stone is quickly in over his head. Before he finally knows which way to turn, the choice is ripped out of his hands. Most people might think of home as safety but Nick Stone isn't most people. For him and his team, it's just another place to get caught in the line of fire...
