Dark Winter

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Outside of Pakistan, the world's highest concentration of al-Qaeda lurks in South-East Asia, and there Nick Stone's bosses get wind of an act of terror that will dwarf even the nightmare of 9/11. When Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Bin Laden. But there are complications, not least because he is working alongside an attractive woman whose motives he doesn't fully understand. Target neutralizeÖk Stone returns to the USA and a maelstrom of personal problemsvMelly, the fourteen-year-old orphan to whom he is joint guardian, Snnot escape the ghosts of her traumatic past; she has a prescriptmn drug habit that's spiraliing out of control, and Stone knows lm is íhe only one who can help her. He takes her tóvrecuperatPm England, but the ter|b|e consequences of what happéned in Penang are ^ev||| behind. Realizing he cannot escape them, Stone u^^^gf. ^Boomsday threat against the... Tovább

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Outside of Pakistan, the world's highest concentration of al-Qaeda lurks in South-East Asia, and there Nick Stone's bosses get wind of an act of terror that will dwarf even the nightmare of 9/11. When Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assassinate a biochemist, he expects his mission to be a straightforward part of the fight against Bin Laden. But there are complications, not least because he is working alongside an attractive woman whose motives he doesn't fully understand. Target neutralizeÖk Stone returns to the USA and a maelstrom of personal problemsvMelly, the fourteen-year-old orphan to whom he is joint guardian, Snnot escape the ghosts of her traumatic past; she has a prescriptmn drug habit that's spiraliing out of control, and Stone knows lm is íhe only one who can help her. He takes her tóvrecuperatPm England, but the ter|b|e consequences of what happéned in Penang are ^ev||| behind. Realizing he cannot escape them, Stone u^^^gf. ^Boomsday threat against the populations of New finds himself facing an unspeakable trade-off: the life of someone he loves, revealing tradecraft Addictive . . . Packed raph McNab is a terrific novelist. When it comes to thrills he's Forsyth class/ Mail on Sunday 'McNab's great asset is that the heart of his fiction is non-fiction: other thriller writers do their research, but he has actually been there/ Sunday Times Vissza