Three tons of Saddam Hussein's gold 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, to which he and the beautiful Russian investigative journalist with whom he has become ensnared unwittingly hold the key. 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.
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"With Exit Wound, McNab has carried the flame of his internationally acclaimed hero to its most breathless destination yet... the language he uses is full of quirky phrases, bullet-bouncing humour and technical savvy... A good, grit-crunching yarn."
— Sunday Express
"Nick Stone is emerging as one of the great all-action characters of recent times. Like his creator, the ex-SAS soldier turned uber agent is unstoppable."
— Daily Mirror
"Ticking like a time-bomb brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption and cover-up."
— Yorkshire Evening Post
From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
— Sunday Express
"Nick Stone is emerging as one of the great all-action characters of recent times. Like his creator, the ex-SAS soldier turned uber agent is unstoppable."
— Daily Mirror
"Ticking like a time-bomb brimming with terror and threat, Andy McNab's latest Nick Stone adventure is a high-voltage story of corruption and cover-up."
— Yorkshire Evening Post
From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Andy McNab joined the infantry as a boy soldier. In 1984 he was 'badged' as a member of 22 SAS Regiment and was involved in both covert and overt special operations worldwide. During the Gulf War he commanded Bravo Two Zero, a patrol that, in the words of his commanding officer, 'will remain in regimental history for ever'. Awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) and Military Medal (MM) during his military career, McNab was the British Army's most highly decorated serving soldier when he finally left the SAS in February 1993. He wrote about his experiences in three books: the phenomenal bestseller Bravo Two Zero, Immediate Action and Seven Troop. He is the author of the bestselling Nick Stone thrillers. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK. He is a patron of the Help for Heroes campaign. www.andymcnab.co.uk
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Nick serves up his revenge hot,
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"Revenge is a kind of wild justice." - Francis Bacon, Sr.EXIT WOUND revs up in the United Arab Emirates with a heist of Saddam Hussein's gold and ends, after a stop-off in Tehran, in the depths of Mother Russia. It's a novel of revenge as Nick Stone is out to exact payback for the death of two ex-SAS mates killed in a double-cross. This is the first Nick Stone thriller I've read. Ok, I've been busy. As such in the genre go, the plot stretches believability, but that doesn't make it any the less entertaining. Author Andy McNab's background as an abandoned orphan and SAS squadie made him into a Hard Guy, a personality type that he's apparently embodied in his alter-ego hero, Nick. Essentially, I gather, Stone's approach to life, adversity, and problem-solving are the author's own were he to find himself in the fictional adventures he creates. The thing is, you see, as Stone himself says: "Crusaders for truth look great under the studio lights. But in the real world they get swatted like flies." In McNab's books, as well as those of, say, Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Stephen Leather's "Spider" Shepherd, and (back in The Day) Adam Hall's Quiller (to name but three of my favorites), "truth" equates with victory against tribal and personal enemies and the "studio lights" are the writer's pen. Perhaps I wax too philosophical here. Based on EXIT WOUND, the Stone series promises to be better than average escapism and I'm fairly certain I'll read more. That said, however, I cannot but recommend more highly any of the potboilers by Gerald Seymour wherein victories are Pyrrhic and invincibility is not assured - more like the real world inhabited by the rest of us mere mortals.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Gritty, Raw and Wonderful!,
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This review is from: Exit Wound (Mass Market Paperback)
Exit wound by Andy McNab is another in the sagas of Nick Stone, the usually down and out ex-SAS warrior who is always being lured or pushed into jobs he really wants no part of. This time he barrels in with no holds barred, because he feels his friends need his protection. The suspense is tight and the twists unexpected, as McNab takes the reader into the places and situations he knows best.
As in all McNab's stories the tradecraft is dead on and well depicted. The eyes on descriptions of Middle East and Russian locations are not those you see in the news media, they are gritty, real life observations of how the ordinary people struggle to scratch out a living there. There are some real surprises this time for Nick, who always wins the day, but usually ends up, if he's lucky, sleeping on someone's couch, instead of under a bush in the rain. Not wanting to spoil it for you, I'll just say the ending is a surprise. The great thing about all McNab's books is the strong emphasis on the importance of making the right decisions and the raw depictions of what Special Forces day to day work is really all about. Too many authors glorify the life, but leave out the tolls paid to live it. When McNab fills in the blanks you have a much clearer picture of how the men who actually do this work live. P.S. If you come across a teenage boy who is too busy with life's adventures to have ever read a book, leave a copy of `Bravo Two Zero' lying around, the honesty and reality of this true story grips their imagination faster than any video game and can create a voracious appetite for more books.
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This review is from: Exit Wound (Nick Stone 12) (Kindle Edition)
If you are a Nick Stone fan, you will enjoy this book.
Andy McNab has changed the circumstances of Nick Stone, who is normally a clandestine operator forced to work in difficult situations alone. When the book first starts, it appears to be a familiar story, with Nick getting the short end of the stick, however this is not the case.
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