Crisis Four (2 page)
Authors: Andy McNab
‘Proceeds with a testosterone surge’
Daily Telegraph
CRISIS FOUR
North Carolina, USA
In the backwoods of the American South, Stone has to keep alive the beautiful young woman who holds the key to unlock a chilling conspiracy that will threaten world peace.
‘When it comes to thrills, he’s Forsyth class’
Mail on Sunday
FIREWALL
Finland
The kidnapping of a Russian Mafia warlord takes Stone into the heart of the global espionage world and into conflict with some of the most dangerous killers around.
‘Other thriller writers do their research, but McNab has actually been there’
Sunday Times
LAST LIGHT
Panama
Stone finds himself at the centre of a lethal conspiracy involving ruthless Columbian mercenaries, the US government and Chinese big business. It’s an uncomfortable place to be…
‘A heart thumping read’
Mail on Sunday
LIBERATION DAY
Cannes, France
Behind its glamorous exterior, the city’s seething underworld is the battleground for a very dirty drugs war and Stone must reach deep within himself to fight it on their terms.
‘McNab’s great asset is that the heart of his fiction is non–fiction’
Sunday Times
DARK WINTER
Malaysia
A straightforward action on behalf of the War on Terror turns into a race to escape his past for Stone if he is to save himself and those closest to him.
‘Addictive… Packed with wild action and revealing tradecraft’
Daily Telegraph
DEEP BLACK
Bosnia
All too late Stone realizes that he is being used as bait to lure into the open a man whom the darker forces of the West will stop at nothing to destroy.
‘One of the UK’s top thriller writers’
Daily Express
AGGRESSOR
Georgia, former Soviet Union
A longstanding debt of friendship to an SAS comrade takes Stone on a journey where he will have to risk everything to repay what he owes, even his life…
‘A terrific novelist’
Mail on Sunday
RECOIL
The Congo, Africa
What starts out as a personal quest for a missing woman quickly becomes a headlong rush from his own past for Stone.
‘Stunning… A first class action thriller’
The Sun
CROSSFIRE
Kabul
Nick Stone enters the modern day wild west that is Afghanistan in search of a kidnapped reporter.
‘Authentic to the core… McNab at his electrifying best’
Daily Express
In memory of Edward C.S. Hooper
30 October 1979–15 April 1999
OCTOBER 1995
Monday 16 October 1995
The Syrians don’t fuck around if they think you’re invading their air space. Within minutes of crossing the border, your aircraft will be greeted by a three-ship intercept, flying so close you can wave at the pilots. They won’t wave back; they’ve come to get a visual ID on you, and if they don’t like what they see they’ll hose you down with their air-to-air missiles.
The same rule doesn’t apply, of course, when friendly commercial aircraft blip onto their radar screens, and that was why our team of four had opted for this particular method of infiltration. If Damascus had had the slightest clue about what was about to happen aboard our British Airways flight from Delhi to London, their fighters would have been scrambled the moment the Boeing 747 left Saudi Arabian territory.
I was twisting and turning, trying to get comfortable, feeling jealous of all the people sitting upstairs behind the driver, probably on their fifth gin and tonic since take off, watching their second movie and tucking into their third helping of
boeuf en croute
.
boeuf en croute
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