Andy McNab
1) Detonator
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Ex-deniable operator Nick Stone has spent a lifetime in harm's way – but when someone he cares for very deeply is murdered in cold blood, he can no longer just take the pain. A high-level internecine conflict at the dark heart of the resurgent Russian Empire and an assassin's bullet on an isolated Alpine pass propel him from an apparently run-of-the-mill close-protection task into his most brutal and challenging mission yet. As the body count increases,...
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The best suspense writer to put pen to paper since Alistair MacLean follows up the international bestselling Firewall with the most gripping and timely Nick Stone mission yet.
LAST LIGHT
Top-secret operative Nick Stone has just aborted an officially sanctioned assassination attempt at the Houses of Parliament. Once he saw who his intended target was, he instinctively pulled out. Now Stone is in a world of trouble. His bosses have handed him a chilling...
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It's all fun and games until you lose cell service.
When an epic class trip to "Wild Out," an Outward Bound-like adventure weekend involving rock climbing, kayaking, and zip lining, is announced, Danny Mack and his best friends are thrilled. But when one of the teachers gets sick and Danny's mean older brother volunteers to chaperone, the weekend seems doomed to be a disaster.
When the group arrives at the campground, they discover that they'll...
4) Crisis Four
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A former member of the UK's elite Special Air Service, the SAS, this best-selling author has seen action on five continents. His thrillers are so chillingly authentic that he is the first British author ever required to submit one of his novels to the British Ministry of Defense for review. Nick Stone, highly trained by the SAS to be methodical and ruthless, now works as a secret agent in "deniable" operations. His current assignment is to hunt down...
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Beautifully formatted in this Apostrophe Books edition, From the battlefield to the boardroom, The Art of War has been the definitive book on strategy for more than 2,000 years. General Sun Tzu's work, still required reading for CIA officers today, has decided battles in conflicts throughout the world, and has been used in warfare by the likes of US generals Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf, Chairman Mao, and the fearsome armies of the Vietcong....
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Beautifully formatted in this Apostrophe Books edition, The Art of War sees political and military theory brought together by one of the subjects' greatest minds. This renowned work by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) has been pored over by the likes of Napoleon and Frederick the Great, and remains one of the most important works on conflict today."To know how to recognise an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else,"...
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Known as "the founder of modern strategy," Swiss military tactician Jomini put his considerable powers into a system to destroy the enemy in the most efficient manner. The result, The Art of War, quickly became a military sensation, with both sides in the US Civil War famously pitting his theories against one another. Jomini promoted the theory of going to war on the map, studying the entire theatre of conflict and concentrating your greatest firepower...
8) The Good Psychopath's Guide To Success: How To Use Your Inner Psychopath To Get The Most Out Of Life
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What is a good psychopath? And how can thinking like one help you to be the best that you can be?In this compelling guide, packed with insightful, interactive quizzes, SAS legend Andy McNab and Oxford University psychologist Dr. Kevin Dutton will help you improve qualities such as charm, coolness, courage and confidence to help you get the very best out of life and your career. Drawing on the heroic military career of McNab (a confirmed good psychopath)...
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The Germans interpret their new national colours - black, red, and white - by the saying, "Durch Nacht und Blut zur licht." ("Through night and blood to light"), and no work yet written conveys to the thinker a clearer conception of all that the red streak in their flag stands for than this deep and philosophical analysis of "War" by Clausewitz.