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Summary: liberation day
Review: McNab is the best, highest level spec ops author....believable, likeable, funny, un-prejudiced, sticks to the story...unlike marcinko, I've never seen one of McNab's I didn't like..
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Summary: This didn't do much for me...
Review: Since I was out of recreational reading material the other day, I picked up Liberation Day by Andy McNab at our library. This is an espionage thriller novel with a main character by the name of Nick Stone. It's also part of a series using the same characters. This is the first time I've read McNab's writing, and I can't say I was impressed...This story takes place shortly after 9/11, and Nick Stone is going on one last mission. He has to infiltrate a country, find a certain target, and physically cut off the guy's head and deliver it back to his handlers. If he completes this, he's been promised his US citizenship. His girlfriend finds out about his last mission and decides to leave him, making his future less certain. With this turn of events, he goes back into action. He's asked to track down a series of physical money transfers in Monaco and Nice that will be used to finance more terrorist activities. That is the majority of the action in this novel. The author apparently was an actual Special Operations member who has to have his novels reviewed by British Secret Service before publication. The realism and understanding of the trade shows up in his writing, but it's to the detriment of the storyline. There was far too much checking of watches, radio chatter, and detailed descriptions of each area. While it may be accurate from a spy standpoint, it makes for a less-than-exciting read. The plot was rather basic, and it was as if he was trying to fluff it out with all the spy minutiae. Maybe his earlier stuff is better... This one certainly didn't do it for me.
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Summary: This didn't do much for me...
Review: Since I was out of recreational reading material the other day, I picked up Liberation Day by Andy McNab at our library. This is an espionage thriller novel with a main character by the name of Nick Stone. It's also part of a series using the same characters. This is the first time I've read McNab's writing, and I can't say I was impressed... This story takes place shortly after 9/11, and Nick Stone is going on one last mission. He has to infiltrate a country, find a certain target, and physically cut off the guy's head and deliver it back to his handlers. If he completes this, he's been promised his US citizenship. His girlfriend finds out about his last mission and decides to leave him, making his future less certain. With this turn of events, he goes back into action. He's asked to track down a series of physical money transfers in Monaco and Nice that will be used to finance more terrorist activities. That is the majority of the action in this novel. The author apparently was an actual Special Operations member who has to have his novels reviewed by British Secret Service before publication. The realism and understanding of the trade shows up in his writing, but it's to the detriment of the storyline. There was far too much checking of watches, radio chatter, and detailed descriptions of each area. While it may be accurate from a spy standpoint, it makes for a less-than-exciting read. The plot was rather basic, and it was as if he was trying to fluff it out with all the spy minutiae. Maybe his earlier stuff is better... This one certainly didn't do it for me.
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Summary: not so great, but worth a read
Review: This is surely not one of the best books of Andy McNab.
Liberation Day is a funny book with nice characters and Humour.
The Story is not so great as Crisis Four or Firewall, but it's a good read and worth the money.
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Summary: My first and unfortunately last Andy McNab novel
Review: Um, sorry but that was not very good. My main complaint was the editing. The publisher needs to get on top of things. At one point, the protagonist is driving a Renault but a few pages later it changes to a Citroen. Also, the author has several amusing cliche's that become overused. For example, every time someone gets whapped in the head, smacked, socked, or otherwise bludgeoned, he "gets the good news." Cute. I liked it the first couple times. After a dozen references to characters "getting the good news," it becomes tiring. However, I did like some of Andy's descriptive text. It was fresh and humorous, such as the description of the Monaco police wearing Legoland uniforms. Funny! Also, his depiction of the French police force as being blundering and less-than-efficient was pretty accurate. I've been inside a French police station and it reminded me of the TV show "Barney Miller." All in all, the book was a disappointment. It was my first Andy McNab book and I found it to be pretty cheesy. The main character's name is "Nick Stone". Might as well call him, "Nick Danger, Private Eye." Also, the main characters spend 90-percent of the book on a tedious stake-out. McNab treats us to several descriptions of terribly dull secret-agent-tips, such as 1: Wrap your candy bars in saran wrap so they don't make noise, and 2: when you listen at someone's door, open your mouth so you can hear better. (Yawn.)
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