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Brute Force (2008)

by Andy McNab(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0593055616 (ISBN13: 9780593055618)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Bantam Press

series

Nick Stone

review 1: The book I am reviewing is Brute Force by Andy McNab which is an excellent SAS thriller which I bought from a car boot sale. This is another installment in the Nick Stone series about an ex SAS trooper and the covert jobs he does. Andy of course was a sergaent in the SAS & if you only read one book by him read Bravo Two Zero which is the true story about when he went on a mission in the First Gulf War and got captured by the Iraqis. It is one of the greatest war books ever. This book is great and features many delicious details about life as a covert operative only an ex special forces trooper would know. The plot is Nick has been involved in a mission to sink a ship off Spain that is carrying lots of weapons bound for Northern Ireland & use by the Provisional IRA. The Lib... moreyans & Gadaffi have supplied them. They briefly capture Nick as he is helping plant the explosives but he gets away. That was in 1987. Now in 2007 when the story continues the exoperatives involved in that operation are being murdered one by one by being tortured with a black & decker drill and then shot. Nick realises he is next. When his partner and her daughter are kidnapped he realises he must go to Libya to rescue them. He also has to change his identity. He is accompanied by Lynn another covert op & there is a happy ending and I daresay there will be more sequels. It's quite violent so you would probably not want children reading it. It's a brilliant book though as one reviewer on the back page of the book put it, "other authors do there research but Andy has actually been there."
review 2: Nick's past comes back to haunt him when an IRA member sees him on TV. The daughter of one of the men Nick killed whilst in the SAS plants a bomb under his car and initiates a series of events that take us from Ireland to Italy to Libya. The story tells us that the peace process in Ireland was brought about by deliberate sabotage from within the IRA with several failed smuggling runs to kill some of the die-hards and the Enniskillen bombing to loose any support from the public. less

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