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Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1988, soon after being involved in the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltar. Now working for British Intelligence on deniable operations, he discovers the seemingly senseless murders of fellow SAS soldier Kev Brown and his family in Washington, DC. Only seven-year-old Kelly has survived--and immediately the unlikely pair are on the run from unidentified pursuers.
On his own, Stone would stand a chance of escape. But, needing to protect the girl, he is hamstrung. Together they are plunged into a dark world of violence and corruption in which friends and enemies are indistinguishable.
Gritty, original, vivid and menacing--in the hands of Andy McNab the action thriller moves into another dimension. Other thriller writers talk and talk. Only McNab has walked the walk.
Amazon.com Review
Don't expect to see Andy McNab's photograph on the cover of his first thriller, Remote Control--the former British Special Air Service agent says both the Colombian drug cartel and the Provisional IRA still have contracts out on him. His two nonfiction books, Bravo Two Zero and Immediate Action, give more detail about his prolific past.
Remote Control is the fictional story of an SAS agent named Nick Stone, who is on the case of two Irish terrorists. He follows them across the Atlantic to Washington, D.C., but is suddenly ordered back home on the next available flight. His old mate Kevin Brown, now with the Drug Enforcement Agency, lives near the airport, so Nick decides to drop in. He finds a slaughterhouse: Kev, his wife, and youngest daughter have been battered to death, but daughter Kelly has survived in a special hideout. Prying information from the shocked child, Nick links the killers to either the CIA, the DEA, or his own organization--which means that he and Kelly are virtually on their own. As Nick trundles the spunky youngster from one seedy motel to another, stuffs her with junk food, and teaches her the rudiments of spy craft, he also begins to piece together a picture of why Kevin and his family were killed. There is a connection between a terrorist bomb scare in Gibraltar in 1988, the Colombian drug cartel, and high-level intelligence-agency skullduggery. McNab keeps dropping those shiny nuggets of believability along the trail and winds up holding our attention until the predictable but satisfying end. --Dick Adler
Remote Control Reviews
Remote Control Reviews
| 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful  McNab creates a great new hero in this tense thriller, By fionnmaccumhal "fionnmaccumhal" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Remote Control (Mass Market Paperback) Andy McNab's first thriller is a top-notch combination of violent action,pulse-pounding excitement and edge of your seat suspense. In "Remote Control" McNab introduces a new hero, Nick Stone, who makes most The action in "Remote Control" never lets up for more than a few pages, and even 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful A Damn Good Read, By Kali "bengaligirl" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews This review is from: Remote Control (Hardcover) REMOTE CONTROL is an exciting, bullet flying, rib cracking, guts spewing story about an ex-SAS man, Nick Stone, who gets caught up in the vicious murder of an old friend and his family. Rescuing the only surviving member of the massacre a seven-year-old shell shocked little girl called Kelly, Nick goes on the run, and finds out that even friends are potential enemies in a world of IRA deals, drug cartels and messy TransAtlantic politics. This is a knuckle bitingly good book and I spent the whole of an evening reading it from cover to cover. Andy McNab is as good a writer of fiction as he is of fact. I liked his hero because it showed the man to be human and not just a killing machine as SAS soldiers are often portrayed in many novels. I hope that McNab thinks of writing a sequel to REMOTE CONTROL as Nick Stone and Kelly make quite a formidable team. A big thumbs up for this cracker of a first novel. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful  Not great, but not bad, By "smokey_joe" (USA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Remote Control (Mass Market Paperback) After reading McNab's "Bravo Two Zero" and "Immediate Action," I thought I'd give his fiction a try. Overall this book is entertaining, with more action than recent vintage Clancy novels. The action is often quite intense and, in those moments, it is a real page turner. The technical and tradecraft details are what really make this book. McNab, or course, is all the more believable in these areas due to his personal experiences as relayed in his non-fiction work. He buys a credibility there that Clancy, et al. just can't match. Worth reading for that fact alone. While the story is good and the details better, the writing itself is sometimes clumsy. Maybe this is nitpicking, since the reality is that the writing somehow seems to "fit" the story (you wouldn't want Steinbeck or Hemingway telling the story, would you?). However, I suspect that the writing is simply due to first novel syndrome (I had no complaints about his writing in Bravo Two... Read more |
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