Liberation Day
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The brilliant new bestseller from the author of Bravo Two Zero.November 2001. A Zodiac inflatable slips away from a submarine off the North African coast. If he hadn't needed American citizenship so badly, Nick Stone wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job, but the CIA's offer of a new life in the United States, and the chance to share it with Carrie, the woman he's fallen in love with, is one he cannot refuse.The job seems simple enough for a man of his particular skills: infiltrate into the hostile and violent republic of Algeria, kill a money-laundering local businessman, and bring back his severed head to the West. Stone isn't told why the man has to die like this, and he doesn't want to know. He just guesses it's got something to do with the democratic world's fightback after the terrible events of 11 September.But as events unfold alarmingly fast, Stone realizes that by no means has he been told the full story - and that in reality the job has only just begun. Then comes the devastating news that Carrie, enraged by his broken promise never to work with the CIA again, has turned her back on him for ever.Operating in the dangerous underworld of the south of France, where al-Qaeda has embarked on a panicked round-up of funds using the ancient banking system of hawalla, Stone is in at the deep end of a very dirty war. In the most daunting mission he has ever undertaken, as one bloody twist leads to another, Stone ultimately finds himself confronted by the most desperate dilemma a man could ever face.
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Nick Stone saves the world again. Sadly, nobody thanks him (yet again)
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If Nick Stone wasn't so desperate for his American citizenship, he probably wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job with the CIA. But Carrie is over there and he simply can't refuse the chance of a new life with the woman he loves.
The story starts with Stone, Hubba-Hubba and Lofti on an Algerian job. They're out to kill the baddie: Zeralda. He is a hawallada (al-Qaida money man). They find him with another man, Greaseball, and a gang of frightened boys. Stone then kills and decapitates Zeralda.Once back in Boston, Carrie gets wind of what Stone has been up to. She's not happy and she stomps off. George, Carrie's father, recruits Sone to go to France and kill three other hawallada (to prevent world terrorism). The contact for the job is Greaseball.Stone manages to plant a charge on a boat, then pump one hawallada with ketamine. One down, two to go. Then it all goes to pot. Hubba-Hubba and Lofti bleed to death. Then George reveals that Greaseball has double-crossed al-Qaida and stolen their money. So Stone has to let him go.Stone thinks of Hubba-Hubba and Lofti and of Greaseball making off with the dosh. It wasn't enough to have prevented dozens of major terrorist incidents around the globe. Stone wants revenge. He dials a code into his phone and Greaseball's boat turns into a fireball.
All in all another page turner in the Nick Stone series. However, prepare yourself as it is heavy on tedious preparation and surveillance. The team waits, they prepare, the field work goes on and on. This makes the middle section of the book somewhat slow-moving and unexciting. Hundreds of pages of field work exposition. This needed some pruning. The end was exciting but it would have been better if some of this action interspersed some of the plodding setup.
