Crossfire Book

"Crossfire" is a superb book from ex-SAS soldier and instructor Andy McNab. You follow Nick Stone, a hardened ex-SAS operative working as a bodyguard for a journalist in Iraq where things quickly turn sour. Stone ends up searching for the journalist who had saved his life in an ambush, and who was then taken hostage by terrorists within the region. Stone picks up the trail taking him to Dublin, London and then Kabul which leads to a heart-pounding climax involving Taleban, bounty hunters and a wide array of other various dangers that would face a foreigner within the hostile Iraq region. Andy McNab does an incredible job of making every single piece of information he writes authentic, which really adds to the interest that the reader feels towards the story and methods of Nick Stone. The details that McNab includes about the brutal undercover and army work are fascinating to someone who is interested in the conditions that soldiers and operatives face all around the world, something that really separates McNab's novels from the rest of the field as his fictional stories are grounded in reality and factual knowledge of the world of undercover and army life. I also found the vivid imagery of the countries that Nick Stone travels to incredible, you get a real sense that McNab has experienced what the character is going through in these incredible locations which only adds to the depth and immersion that the reader experiences when reading "Crossfire". McNab does a great job of absorbing his readers into the life of Nick Stone, he treats the readers as adults by using the acronyms that soldiers use in foreign territory and strong language that you would expect to hear from lonely soldiers that are missing the comfort of their home. It almost makes you feel like you are the character within the story, which is no easy task for an author to do. "Crossfire" is an incredible book which will grab you by the throat and won't let go until you have read the final page of this intense, detailed, authentic and dramatic novel from the fascinating mind of the greatest war-thriller author of this generation, Andy McNab. If you are even slightly interested in war, crime and thrillers or if you're just after an exciting read, then "Crossfire" is the book for you.