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Firewall Hardcover – 5 Oct. 2000

by Andy Mcnab (Author)

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Helsinki, December 1999. Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now a 'K' working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, is tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained - and desperately in need of cash... Offered the lucrative freelance job of kidnapping a mafia warlord and delivering him to St Petersburg, it seems to Stone that his problems are over. In fact, they are only just beginning. Stone enters the bleak underworld of the former Soviet republic of Estonia, where unknown aggressors stalk the bitter landscape, and he soon finds himself caught between implacable enemies. For Russia has embarked upon a concerted cyber-espionage offensive, hacking into some of the West's most sensitive military secrets. American and British intelligence agencies are determined to thwart them. And the mafia are waiting in the wings with their own chillingly brutal solution...

Book 3 of 21

Nick Stone
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411 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Bantam Press
Publication date

5 Oct. 2000
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24 x 16 x 3.5 cm
ISBN-10

0593046161
ISBN-13

978-0593046166
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All freelances have problems when work dries up, but Nick Stone, hero of Andy McNab's second adventure thriller Firewall has worse problems than most of us. Expensively trained by the SAS, he now works for British Intelligence as a deniable operative, and he needs a regular income to take care of his responsibilities, which include psychiatric care for a traumatised orphan. He takes a lucrative mercenary job kidnapping a leading Chechen Mafioso; when the job goes sour, his victim is impressed by his grace under pressure and hires him to baby-sit a computer espionage expert on a jaunt into Finland. Not all is as it seems--Nick was engaged in wishful thinking to believe it was--and he finds himself adrift with little money and no weapons in Estonia in the dead of winter with a friend to rescue, the interests of the West to retrieve and, if possible, money to earn... This is an effective thriller because of the clash between its hero's competence and his less than entire brightness--Nick gets himself into messes and then gets out of them because of skills in combat, disguise and survival. This is a book filled with adrenaline-pumping excitement and a sense of bitterly cold places. --Roz Kaveney

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An ex-SAS officer now working for British Intelligence finds himself to be a disposable pawn in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between the superpowers. Being a deniable operative, he is in deadly danger, but he needs the money.

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'The Russians were serious players. If things didn't go as planned, Sergei said, I'd be lucky to be shot dead in the hotel lobby. If they captured me, I'd be taken to some remote bit of wasteland and have my stomach slit open. They'd pull my lungs out and then leave me to watch them flop around on my chest like a couple of freshly caught mullet for the thirty minutes it would take me to die. These things happen, he had explained, when you mess with the main men in Russian Organized Crime. But I didn't have a choice...'

Helsinki, December 1999. Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now a 'K' working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, is tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained - and desperately in need of cash...

Offered the lucrative freelance job of kidnapping a mafia warlord and delivering him to St Petersburg, it seems to Stone that his problems are over. In fact, they are only just beginning.

Stone enters the bleak underworld of the former Soviet republic of Estonia, where unknown aggressors stalk the bitter landscape, and he soon finds himself caught between implacable enemies. For Russia has embarked upon a concerted cyber-espionage offensive, hacking into some of the West's most sensitive military secrets. American and British intelligence agencies are determined to thwart them. And the mafia are waiting in the wings with their own chillingly brutal solution...

Andy McNab enthralled millions of readers worldwide with his No. 1 non-fiction bestsellers Bravo Two Zero and Immediate Action. Remote Control, his first novel, was hailed as the most authentic thriller ever written. 'McNab', said Stephen Coonts, 'is the best suspense thriller writer to put pen to paper since Alistair Maclean.' Of its sequel, Crisis Four, the Sunday Times said, '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.'

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 two phenomenal bestsellers, Bravo Two Zero, which was filmed in 1998 starring Sean Bean, and Immediate Action. He is the author of the bestselling novels, Firewall, Crisis Four, Last Light, Remote Control, Liberation Day,Dark Winter, Deep Black, Aggressor and Recoil. Besides his writing work, he lectures to security and intelligence agencies in both the USA and UK.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bantam Press; First Edition of This Edition (5 Oct. 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 411 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593046161
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593046166
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 24 x 16 x 3.5 cm

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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.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 June 2022

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I have just finished reading this book of the fantastic adventures of Nick Stone not a quick read, but to the end full of action in factual places and total loyalty to those who support him. Including his friend Tom.

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Exciting and brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 23 February 2022

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Against the odds, and beaten to a pulp, love a good scrap, this book is action beginning to end full of entertainment, loved it, thanks Mr McNab another awesome adventure.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 7 October 2021

Nick Stone series.

Don't Trust the Wimmin'

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 17 April 2012

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... in fact don't trust anyone but yourself. Even when he does that, Nick Stone still finds himself up to his neck in the brown stuff. It seems to be a recurring theme that the female characters have their own agenda and can't be trusted. Perhaps it might be different in the next book. This book also has an incident on an Estonian ferry, which is unexpected and also unexplained which makes it seem a bit disjointed like a loose thread.

That apart, this book goes along at a good pace with a few twists and turns along the way and keeps your attention to the end. Nick Stone survives by improvising as he goes along. There isn't always a few pounds of semtex or an SMG lying around when you need it, so if you can't improvise you can't do the job and you die. Nick can improvise and knows what he needs to do to win fights, then does it. That's what keeps him alive when most of us wouldn't stand a chance. It isn't always pretty. Thankfully there aren't any pictures other than the one drawn in your head. At least you can tone it down a bit so that it's not so graphic. Nick certainly won't be winning any beauty contests by the end of the book, but you should see the other guy!!

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Action packed and violent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 13 September 2022

Total action packed brutality from start to finish. If you want escapism, but rooted in real life espionage and global politics, then this is great fun to read.

I’ve read Nick Stone out of order, but luckily the story, and the personality of Nick, can be picked up and followed anywhere.

The action would not translate that well to screen, because its not necessarily big million dollar explosions and fights between 15-20 people, its one on one, with Nick Stone being often beaten to a pulp and playing dead to survive. But the way its written is so much more real and visceral.

However, the story does lack some intrigue, it is there but is quite tangential to the action - the geopolitics is also rooted in the real world but is not that central to the plot. However locations are great.

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The book arrived in good time and was in fair condition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 24 April 2021

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Great story, lots of action.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 July 2020

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Fiction it is but it still feels like it could be true, Kelly is in a bad place just hope Nick can help her & him to get them back on an even keel. Tom was never going to make it! but Stone still thought of him at the end of the book, British soldier still the best in the world.

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