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Crisis Four

Crisis Four

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Fast Start, Slow Middle, Predictable Ending
Review: My first Andy McNab book. Really, I expected more of a thrill from a former SAS member with all kinds of ops under his belt. I did like the way it started fast but then it really slows down. Some dicey moments at the very end. I will have to try some other McNab books. Meanwhile I will stick to Stephen Hunter and Ridley Pearson for nail biting thrillers.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Non-stop brilliance - the best McNab ever!
Review: Possibly the best book ever in its genre!! For totally raw, in your face, absorbing, thriller action this book is a must. I could not put it down, and read it front to back in just under six hours. Non-stop brilliance and action, with a twist that you would never expect. Enjoy!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Disappointing follow up to Remote Control
Review: Reading Remote Control (McNab's first novel) was like reading Hunt for Red October when it first came out. This was an author who grabbed you from page one, and didn't let go until the last page. Every detail was there: the authentic action, the realistic descriptions of the terrorism, and most importantly, the believable actions of the characters. You truly believed that McNab's Nick was real. And dangerous.

Crisis Four was, in the end, disappointing. There is a difference between detail (Nick's clearing of the house in Remote Control - each excruciating detail of ensuring that the threat was not still in the house - was a great example of sustaining tension across an entire chapter for something that would take just a few minutes to act out) and boredom. At one point in Crisis Four, we spend a good thirty pages with Nick as he carves out a spot in a bush. Nothing happens. Yet we read about every branch, every last bodily function while he hides in the bush, and every thought that passes through Nick's head.

The frenetic pace of Remote Control is gone, replaced by a rather linear plot which just plods along. I was frustrated, because McNab so clearly nailed Remote Control - but has lost his touch with Crisis Four. Here's hoping that he regains his form with the next book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great!
Review: This book is great, McNab writes very detailled, so you found yourselve wondering if the events are real ore close to real.
it's like you'are being the main character, The tension is unbelieveble.
it's a real page turner, on every page you just can't sit still.
A book that's worth five stars and a must for every McNab fan.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Just great!
Review: This book is totally everything you ever wanted, good plot, action and a great tension.
I simply couldn't put it down, it was that good.
It was very well writen, very detailled, sometimes i wondered whether the events were real or not.
It's the best book i've ever read,
You won't be sorry if you buy it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Crisis Four could have ended better
Review: This book started out REALLY good but then kinda flopped in the end. I guess you would have to read <i>Remote Control</i> to get some of the plot twists, which is a shame since I picked this one up and thought, well, great, I'm finally going to be reading about Osama bin Laden. I was expecting many more SAS vignettes than were actually delivered in the last half of the book, which is really kinda bad since there is only one real surprise in it.

McNab's attention to detail is well and good but I prefer globe-trotting action that goes right to the top rather than two people sodding about in the North Carolina woods. I feel that the last 1/3 is a bit tiring, but maybe it's because I read the whole book in 1 day.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Cronin dont miss this book
Review: This book was great it is less technical than remote controle nicks charecture shows the flaws of a true human, as he slowly comes into the world of emotions that has been opened up to him. Its great the way McNab has nick fumbel through the mine field of emotions that he is for the first time allowing himself to experience while also making his way through a real life minefield of problems. The final pages leave Nick as a real human and not one of these super human tough guys we read about all the time, but you also know that he will still gut you like a pig if need be. If you liked remote controle you must read this one to find out what happens in the continuing saga of Nicks life. Cant wait to read McNabs next book, but not sure he can revive Nick Stones charecture. Hopefuly we will see in time

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: very adequate
Review: this is another very adequate thriller by McNab. The plot and plotting seem more mature than in his first novel - which was good anyway. The writing style is relatively simple, but this makes this very much the "normal man's thriller", with good action, good macho thrills, women, fighting, none too taxing twists...(which are sometimes very welcome). McNab's use of cliches is also strangely endearing...Nick Stone is definitely a normal guy, doing and saying and acting in the way normal people do. He's a human character, and McNab develops him well. Sarah Greenwood, the woman he is sent by his superiors to hunt down is also a very strong presence in the novel...

To anyone who wants good action, thrills, adequate writing and a human lead, coupled with a good plot, i would reccomend they give McNab try.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Am I the only lost person??
Review: This is not a book it is a screen play. Made for the big or little screen complete with bad language. I have not read his prior books so this one has lost me. maybe if I had I would be able to follow this. I can't seem to 'catch his drift" so the book has been filed to 'read when all other books have been read shelf.'There are much better thrillers out there!!!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Just soooooooo Good!
Review: Totally great this book of Chris Ryan, it's totally my kind of story and of many people i think.
I wouldn't say much about it, just one thing: BUY IT!
you won't be sorry.


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