Andy McNab Books In Order

Remote Control

A new kind of thriller, gritty, vivid and menacing, with a pace that never lets up. Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless murders of a fellow SAS soldier and his family in Washington, DC. Only a seven year old daughter, Kelly, has survived and the two of them are immediately on the run from unidentified pursuers. Stone doesn’t even know which of them is the target. On his own, Stone stands a chance of escape. But he needs to protect the girl and together they plunge into a dark world of violence and corruption in which friend cannot be told from foe. As events draw to their blazing and unexpected climax, Stone discovers the shocking truth about governments, terrorism and commerce and the greed that binds the three together…
Remote Control is a new kind of thriller, gritty, vivid and menacing, with a pace that never lets up. Other thriller writers talk the talk. Only McNab has the walk.

Crisis Four

‘If your opponent has only two possible options, you can be sure that he will take the third.’ A tough, resourceful master of his trade, British Intelligence agent Nick Stone has just been given a chilling ultimatum: find a missing agent who appears to have defected or lose the guardianship of his beloved nine year old daughter. In Stone’s mind, there is no choice. The ‘runner’ is Sarah Greenwood, U.K. liaison with the Counterterrorism Center, a cell set up by the CIA to warn against potential terrorist attacks. Steel willed, beautiful, cunning, Sarah is also Nick’s former lover, the only woman who has ever been allowed under his rough, impenetrable guard. ‘It’s not only what you see. Sometimes what isn’t there is just as important as what is.’ Relying on his keen instincts and cool logic, Nick tracks Sarah to the mountainous backwoods of North Carolina. There, in a remote cabin, she conspires with two Middle Eastern men. Then Nick’s mission takes a decidedly dark turn when he receives a T104 an order to kill Sarah without a trace. But nothing is what it seems, as Nick and Sarah themselves become hunted, racing deeper into a dark, deadly conspiracy that will change the course of world events and the lives of millions. With seventeen years of active service in the elite SAS force, Andy McNab writes from his own harrowing experiences. As compelling and relentless as a fast burning fuse, Crisis Four hurtles us into a breathtaking plot of nonstop action and suspense. Packed with authentic procedural details, it is a thriller so gritty and real that you won’t know where fact ends and fiction begins.

Firewall

If he hadn’t needed the cash so badly, Nick Stone would never have messed with the Russian mafia. But the lucrative offer was one he couldn’t refuse. The job seemed simple enough for a man of his particular talents: kidnap a ruthless, money laundering mob boss from his fortified Helsinki hotel room and deliver him to St. Petersburg. But as the plan begins to unfold, Stone soon realizes that by no means has he been told the full story. Catapulted into the bleak underworld of the former Soviet republic of Estonia, where unknown aggressors stalk the arctic landscape, Stone finds that the mob may now turn out to be the least of his problems. Russia has embarked on a new Cold War offensive hacking into the West’s computer systems and stealing their most coveted military secrets. As one bloody double cross leads to another, Stone finds himself caught between the suicidal schemes of the British and American intelligence agencies and the ruthless Russians who want to silence him.

Last Light

‘The best suspense writer to put pen to paper since Alistair MacLean’ Stephen Coonts follows up the international bestselling Firewall with the most gripping and timely Nick Stone mission yet. Last Light Top secret operative Nick Stone has just aborted an officially sanctioned assassination attempt at the Houses of Parliament. Once he saw who his intended target was, he instinctively pulled out. Now Stone is in a world of trouble. His bosses have handed him a chilling ultimatum: fly to Panama and finish the job he just botched, or Kelly, the young orphan in his guardianship, will be killed. Deep in the sweltering jungle of Central America on an assignment that makes little sense to him, Stone quickly finds himself up to his neck in high stakes action as he closes in on the key players in a lethal conspiracy involving Colombian guerrillas, the U.S. government, and Chinese big business. Only Stone can stop an international crisis and salvage Western interests, but first there is a critically injured friend to rescue, as well as miles of dense rainforest to navigate. In the explosive finale at the Panama Canal, with countless innocent lives hanging in the balance, Stone is forced to make the toughest decision of his life. Drawing on his experiences as a member of Britain’s legendary Special Air Service, world renowned thriller writer Andy McNab ‘delivers authenticity in spades’ ‘Publishers Weekly.’ ‘McNab’s greatest asset,’ according to London’s ‘Sunday Times,’ ‘is that the heart of his fiction is not fiction: other thriller writers do their research, but he has actually been there.’

Liberation Day

Operating in the dangerous underworld of the south of France, where al Queda has embarked on a panicked roundup of funds using the ancient banking system of hawalla, Stone is in at the deep end of a very dirty war.

Dark Winter

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 neutralized, Stone returns to the USA and a maelstrom of personal problems. Kelly, the fourteen year old orphan to whom he is joint guardian, cannot escape the ghosts of her traumatic past; she has a prescription drug habit that s spiralling out of control, and Stone knows he is the only one who can help her. He takes her to recuperate in England, but the terrible consequences of what happened in Penang are never far behind.

Before very long, the conspiracy he has uncovered unravels to reveal a doomsday threat against the populations of New York, London and Berlin. And Stone finds himself facing the ultimate trade off: the life of someone he loves, against those of millions he doesn t even know

Deep Black

Nick Stone’s future has never looked as bleak. The only person he’s ever loved is dead. The only people who might give him a reason not to join her have turned their backs. Until a chance encounter with a man he saved ten years ago appears to throw him a lifeline…
But on the bullet and bomb scarred streets of Baghdad, second chances are in short supply. A simple quest becomes a journey to the heart of a chilling conspiracy; too late, he realizes that he is being used as bait to lure into the open a man he believes can offer some salvation, but whom the darker forces of the West will stop at nothing to destroy…
From its violent and shocking opening in the Muslim enclaves of Bosnia, through vivid, lightning paced action in war torn Iraq, this unforgettable story proves Andy McNab yet again to be the master of the modern thriller, a writer at the very top of his game.

Aggressor

The stunning new thriller from the master of the genre. 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 centres of Australia, a board on the roof, freefall rig behind him, and a beautiful young backpacker at his side. But when he witnesses on TV the massacre of children in a terrorist siege on the other side of the world, long suppressed memories are triggered and Nick finds himself catapulted once more into working for the American secret services only this time, of his own free will. As events unfold in the bleak, medieval villages of Azerbajhan, and the teeming streets of modern Istanbul, it isn t long before Nick discovers the true objective of the mission on which he has embarked. His talents are being misused by those who stalk the corridors of power, and he is determined to make a stand. 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 is McNab at his searing, blockbusting best. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Crossfire

Body Guarding 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 inexorably collide. Caught in the Crossfire, Stone’s nightmare is only just beginning for the hunter has suddenly become the hunted, in a heart stopping race against time…
Unrelentingly violent, harrowing and chillingly graphic as it hurtles us towards a truly shocking climax, Nick Stone’s tenth adventure is high voltage, pulse pounding, no holds barred McNab prose so testosterone drenched, action so blisteringly paced, it could only have been penned by the master thriller writer at his electrifying, unputdownable best.

Brute Force

Nick Stone’s eleventh adventure is McNab at his explosive best!A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, loaded to the gunwales with enough arms and ammunition to start a war Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on eradicating those responsible for the treachery, one by one. And Nick Stone ex SAS, tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained is next on the killer s list The fuse is lit and Stone is catapulted into his most daunting mission yet a quest that takes him across two continents, and into the darker recesses of his own complex past. But first he must find a man who shared that past, and who may know more about the present threat than he is prepared to reveal. As the two find themselves pursued across sea and desert, they become ever more enmeshed in a deadly network of betrayal, to which Stone himself unwittingly holds the key. And in a final confrontation that echoes his worst nightmares, only he can stop the unthinkable and save the lives of those he holds most dear. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Exit Wound

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, brim*ming 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.

Zero Hour

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.

Traitor

Danny Watts grandfather, Fergus, was a Deniable Operator in the SAS before he was betrayed, imprisoned, and falsely denounced as a Traitor. Now Fergus has escaped, but the real Traitor is determined to silence Fergus and Danny for good. Together Danny and Fergus are forced to go on the run in an against the odds battle for survival. As they try to clear Fergus name, Danny learns all the military field craft, trade skills, and covert operations techniques that are second nature to his grandfather. When Fergus is recaptured, Danny must put those skills to the test and rescue Fergus before it’s too late.

Payback

A series of high profile suicide bombing has devastated London and stymied British Intelligence. But none of that matters to Danny Watts and his ex spy grandfather Fergus, who are living peacefully incognito in Spain that is, until their cover is blown in a botched assassination attempt. Suddenly, Danny and Fergus are forced to return to London and into the swirl of current events. Their only hope of clearing the family name is to break into Intelligence headquarters and steal the files that prove Fergus was framed by his commanding officer. But when Fergus takes a bullet in the leg, it’s up to Danny to do the job alone. Is Danny up to the task? And what is the Watts family s connection to the bombings? With a story ripped from today s headlines, and filled with authentic details from Andy McNab s experiences in British Special Ops, Payback continues the explosive action that made Traitor a YA action fan favorite.

Avenger

Having proved his grandfather Fergus innocence, Danny Watts and his friend Elena have now been recruited by the British government for a dangerous assignment. Elena must impersonate a would be suicide bomber to win the confidence of Black Star, the master computer hacker who is behind the rash of teenage bombings that have swept the globe.

When Black Star sends Elena to New York, Danny and Fergus come along to keep an eye on her. But Fergus knows that once this mission is over, the government will have them all eliminated. As Elena begins to fall under Black Star’s spell, it will take all of Danny s survival training to find a way out.

Having scored smash bestsellers in Britain with Traitor and Payback, the adventure continues in Avenger with all the authentic Special Ops details that made the previous books stand out.

Meltdown

The final installment of the Watts family adventures is the most action packed yet!

Once again, Danny Watts and his grandfather Fergus are on the run. But when Dudley, a top MI5 agent, tracks them down for help with a new mission, they finally have the chance to clear their names once and for all.

Danny and Fergus must find the makers of a dangerous new drug called Meltdown and destroy it before it can enter the mainstream, or even worse, fall into the hands of a radical terrorist group. But in order to do this, they must infiltrate the drug production network and once again get behind enemy lines, even fighting alongside their nemesis, Special Agent Deveraux. After all that they have been through, will Danny and Fergus finally be able to stop running?

Filled with all the action, excitement and SAS special operations techniques that have kept this series on the UK bestseller lists, Meltdown completes the Watts saga in grand fashion.

War Torn

The first novel in an exciting new series from the bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero. Sometimes the toughest battle you fight is with yourself…
Two tours of Iraq under his belt, Sergeant Dave Henley has seen something of how modern battles are fought. But nothing can prepare him for the posting to Forward Operating Base Senzhiri, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. This is a warzone like even he’s never seen before. He’s in charge of 1 Platoon, a ragbag collection of rookies who he must meld into a fighting force, and fast. The Afghanistan conflict is as harsh and unforgiving as the country itself. Their convoy is ambushed before they even reach the FOB, and two of his men are grievously wounded, one scorched beyond recognition, the other left with only one leg. Back at home, the families of the men and women at the front wait anxiously for news. Dave’s wife, Jenny, seven months pregnant, must try to hold together the fragile lives of those they left behind, all of whom remain in constant dread of the knock on the door and the visit from the Families Officer, whose job it is to deliver the bad news. War Torn traces the interwoven stories of one platoon’s experience of warfare in the Twenty First Century. Packed with the searing danger and high octane excitement of modern combat, it also explores the impact of its aftershocks uponthe soldiers themselves, and upon those who love them. It will take you straight into the heat of battle and the hearts of those who are burned by it. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Battlefield 3: The Russian (With: )

Spetsnaz was once a name to strike fear into the hearts of Mother Russia’s enemies. But what was there left to fight now the country had gone to the dogs? Dima Mayakovsky once a revered figure inside the elite Special Forces unit wanted no part of it any more. But when a dangerous fugitive surfaces in Tehran, Dima is the man Kremlin wants to bring him in. The target has something Dima’s political masters want back. And they have made sure that they do not have to take no for an answer. There is no option: the ex Spetsnaz legend must lead his hand picked team of highly trained, battle hardened operatives into explosive combat. But that wasn’t the sort of thing you could hide from the US recce satellites that circled the skies above. That meant Dima and his men became Marine Sergeant Henry Blackburn’s problem. Sent across the border into Iran to search for a missing patrol, Black’s men weren’t looking for trouble, but they found it. In spades. And as Iran descends into chaos, Dima and Black are forced to question everything they believed in, and to fight to survive, for their comrades, their honour and the lives of millions. They’re on their own. And the clocks are ticking…
Bringing his trademark authenticity and insight to BATTLEFIELD 3: THE RUSSIAN is SAS hero and bestselling author Andy McNab at the top of his game, delivering pulse pounding entertainment and awe inspiring, widescreen action.

The Grey Man

‘A STUNNING ACTION THRILLER FROM A REAL LIFE HERO. Kevin Dodds leads a dull, uneventful life. He has a steady job at the bank, a nice house and car. His wife goes to Bingo on a Saturday night, but he usually stays in to save money. But Kevin has spent enough quiet nights in watching TV and decides he’d like a night out himself. And he’s not talking about a pint and a packet of peanuts down at the local. He’s going to attempt to pull off a daring bank robbery single handed. Kevin is about to take a heart thumping step into the unknown.

Last Night Another Soldier

A new Quick Read title from the author of Bravo Two Zero. Afghanistan, 2009. A Rifle section is halfway through their six month tour of duty in Helmand Province. Sixteen men from their Battalion have already been killed. Forty seven others have been wounded and flown back home. The last three months have been tough and it shows. Their kit is in a bad way. They are in a bad way. Young men with tans, scruffy beards, peeling noses and lips burnt raw by the Afghan sun. Despite the hardships they are enjoying their time out here learning how to fight the Taliban. The lads are on their way to becoming the best soldiers in the Army. Last Night Another Soldier…
is the story of four of the young men in this Rifle section, partly told from the point of view of eighteen year old squaddie, David ‘Briggsy’ Briggs.

Bravo Two Zero

‘We put the SAS deep into enemy territory…
they let us know what was going on out there. They were our eyes.’ General H Norman Schwarzkopf, Supreme Commander Allied Forces, February 1991 On the night of 22 January 1991, eight members of the SAS regiment boarded a helicopter that was to infiltrate them deep behind enemy lines. Their mission, under the command of Sergeant Andy McNab, was to sever the underground communication link between Baghdad and north west Iraq, and to seek and destroy mobile Scud launchers before Israel was provoked into entering the war. Their call sign Bravo Two Zero. They patrolled across flat desert to reach their objective and find a hiding place before first light. Within days, their location was compromised. The Iraqis attacked and after a fierce firefight the patrol was forced to escape. In the desperate days that followed, though stricken by hypothermia and other injuries, the patrol lost seven men. Only one escaped. But for Andy McNab and the other survivors, however, the worst ordeals were yet to come. This story is a chronicle of superhuman courage, endurance and dark humour in the face of overwhelming odds. Bravo Two Zero is already part of SAS legend and here, Andy McNab himself relates the story which will surely become a classic of war history.

Immediate Action

He is one of the most highly decorated soldiers alive. He is also the first to break the code of silence about the most elite fighting force in the world. What Andy McNab has to say is so explosive that the British government tried to stop him.A street fighter, a hard case, and a flawless soldier, Andy McNab became one of the elite fighting men in ‘the Regiment’ Britain’s covert SAS. His actions behind the lines in the Gulf War made him a hero. But the full story of his life and his amazing career in Special Forces has remained a secret…
until now. In harrowing detail, McNab takes us inside the Regiment, chronicling nine years of covert operations on five continents. Plunging us into a world of surveillance, counterintelligence, and hostage rescue, he takes us behind the scenes on some of their top secret missions. For the first time, he reveals the shocking details of their training physically severe, mentally grueling, and sometimes deadly. And he dares to expose some of their highly confidential codes and rules including the one that sanctions murder. This is the story of the fighting men of the SAS. Here is how they live. And here is how they die…

Seven Troop

In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to B Squadron, one of the four Sabre Squadrons of the SAS, and within it to Air Troop, otherwise known as Seven Troop. This is Andy McNab’s gripping account of the time he served in the company of a remarkable group of men from the day, freshly badged, he joined them in the Malayan jungle, to the day, ten years later, that he handed in his sand coloured beret and started a new life. The links they forged then bound them inextricably together, but the things they saw and did during that time would take them all to breaking point and some beyond in the years that were to follow. He who dares doesn t always win…
From the Trade Paperback edition.

Spoken From The Front

The biggest military author introduces real life voices from the battlefields of Afghanistan. Spoken From The Front is the story of the Afghan Campaign, told for the first time in the words of the servicemen and women who have been fighting there. With unprecedented access to soldiers of all ranks, as well as pilots, reservists, engineers, medics, Royal Military police, mechanics, cooks and other military personnel, Andy McNab has assembled a portrait of modern conflict like never before. This is the full experience of British troops on the ground and in the air. The horrors, cruelties, drudgery, excitement and banter of these soldiers’ lives combine to form a chronological narrative of all the major events in Helmand during the British Army’s time there. From their action packed, dramatic, moving and often humorous testimonies in interviews, diaries, letters and emails written to family, friends and loved ones, merges a 360 degree picture of guerrilla warfare up close and extremely personal. It is as close to the real thing as you can get.