Firewall (Andy McNab novel)
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Firewall is a novel written by the ex-SAS
member turned author Andy McNab
. Released in 2000 it is the third book written about the fictional character Nick Stone
.
Offered the lucrative freelance job of kidnapping a mafia warlord of the ROC (Russian Organized Crime) and delivering him to St Petersburg, it seems to Stone that his problems are over. In fact, they are only just beginning.
Back in London, Stone is given the chance to earn enough money never to have to do this sort of work again. Stone enters the bleak underworld of the former Soviet republic of Estonia
, where unknown aggressors stalk the Arctic landscape, and he soon finds himself caught between implacable enemies. For Russia has embarked upon a concerted cyber-espionage offensive, hacking into some of the West's most sensitive military secrets. American and British intelligence agencies are determined to thwart them. And the mafia are waiting in the wings with their own chilling, brutal solution. Stone soon realises that he is nothing more than a pawn in a much bigger game.
Plot anomaly.
In Firewall, Stone states that Colonel Lynn will retire to the family mushroom farm in Wales. Yet in Brute Force (published 2008), Lynn's mushroom farm is located in the East Anglian village of Burnham Overy Staithe.
Special Air Service
Special Air Service or SAS is a corps of the British Army constituted on 31 May 1950. They are part of the United Kingdom Special Forces and have served as a model for the special forces of many other countries all over the world...
member turned author Andy McNab
Andy McNab
Sergeant ‘Andy McNab’ DCM MM is the pseudonym of an English novelist and former SAS operative and soldier.McNab came into public prominence in 1993, when he published his account of the failed Special Air Service patrol, Bravo Two Zero for which he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in...
. Released in 2000 it is the third book written about the fictional character Nick Stone
Nick Stone (Andy McNab character)
Nick Stone is the main fictional character in a series of books written by Andy McNab, who is an ex-member of British Army regiment the SAS. Andy McNab has written about Nick Stone in thirteen different books...
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Synopsis
Helsinki, Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now a 'K' working for the British Secret Intelligence Service on deniable operations, is tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained - and desperately in need of cash...Offered the lucrative freelance job of kidnapping a mafia warlord of the ROC (Russian Organized Crime) and delivering him to St Petersburg, it seems to Stone that his problems are over. In fact, they are only just beginning.
Back in London, Stone is given the chance to earn enough money never to have to do this sort of work again. Stone enters the bleak underworld of the former Soviet republic of Estonia
Estonia
Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...
, where unknown aggressors stalk the Arctic landscape, and he soon finds himself caught between implacable enemies. For Russia has embarked upon a concerted cyber-espionage offensive, hacking into some of the West's most sensitive military secrets. American and British intelligence agencies are determined to thwart them. And the mafia are waiting in the wings with their own chilling, brutal solution. Stone soon realises that he is nothing more than a pawn in a much bigger game.
Plot anomaly.
In Firewall, Stone states that Colonel Lynn will retire to the family mushroom farm in Wales. Yet in Brute Force (published 2008), Lynn's mushroom farm is located in the East Anglian village of Burnham Overy Staithe.