Remote Control

By Andy McNab

Book Overview

Inspired by his own career as a special forces soldier, AndyMcNab debuts his best-selling series with action-packed, high-octane RemoteControl, a thrilling page turn you won't be able to put down featuringex-SAS trooper Nick Stone.Tough, resourceful, ruthless - as a Special Air Service (SAS)trooper, Nick Stone was one of the best. Now he's back on the streets. After abotched mission, the Regiment no longer want his services, but BritishIntelligence does - as a deniable operator. It's the dirtiest job in a very, very dirty world.In Washington DC, it's about to get dirtier still. On theapparently routine tail of two terrorists, Stone discovers the bodies of anex-SAS officer and his family. Soon he's on the run with the lone survivor ofthe bloodbath - a seven-year-old girl. And whilst she can identify the killers, only Stone can keep them at bay - and solve a mystery whose genesis takes himback to the most notorious SAS mission in recent history... Remote Control isthe first of Andy McNab's nineteen Nick Stone thrillers -bestsellers whose landscape is so compellingly close to the truth that they hadto be vetted by the Ministry of Defense, and could only be published asfiction... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345428056
• ISBN13: 9780345428059
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Okay, so I wouldn't say I hated the book...

This author describes things to the nth degree(!) making this book a lousy read, with a lousy ending. This is no 'spy thriller' - it's just one long, boring story. If the protagonist, for instance, is going to the corner store, he'll describe every step, every turn, EVERYTHING, it took for him to get there. It took everything I had to finish it. Don't waste your $$ unless you're interested in 500 pages of worthlessness.

McNab creates a great new hero in this tense thriller

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 other famous fictional heroes look like prancing twits (can you say "Dirk Pitt"?) An ex-SAS operator...

A Thriller For The 21st Century

There are a few books that are so suspenseful and action-packed I have been unable to put them down. Remote Control is one of them. Ex-SAS 'K' Nick Stone is assigned to follow a group of Provisional IRA members on their way to Washington. His mission is cut short, but before leaving, he decides to visit a friend's family. At this point, McNab plunges the reader into a rollercoaster ride of emotions as Stone finds the family...

Suspense and Action Packed!

From the first page all the way to the final one, Andy McNab's "Remote Control" was a gripping and fantastic read.Readers will follow the main character of Nick Stone from Gilbraltar to London and then on to the United States. While on what is termed a "deniable assignment", Nick contacts a former SAS colleague, only to find upon his arrival at their home that Kev and his family have been brutally murdered. All but one......

WOW!

I absolutely could not put this book down! McNab has a gift for writing action. The tradecraft sure sounds believable to a civillian like me. The characters are a bit cardboard-like, and I wonder how much time McNab has spent with children, but who cares? I was completely sucked in from the first page. The fight in the PIRA office in DC is a stunner, and it's not even the best part of the book. I'm looking forward to McNab's...