September 1, 2012

  • Exit Wound

    The book I am reviewing in this post is Exit Wound by Andy McNab which is an excellent SAS thriller which I bought from a carboot sale. Like most of his books this features Nick Stone the exSAS covert operative. In 1989 when the Berlin Wall was about to come there were many in the soviet military machine who were selling secrets to the west to make money. Stone went on an SAS mission to buy some secret information but one of the men got shot. He was very close to his comrades on that mission. Then fast forward to 2008 and they are at an SAS reunion and the same buddies tell him about a mission to go to Dubai to retrieve a solid gold door that once belonged to Saddam Hussein. He joins the mission as a favour to his friends more than anything. In Dubai apparently it has been hit badly by the recession and a lot of airplanes fly there almost empty and come back full. A lot of foreign nationals have lost their jobs and they can freeze your bank account if you fall behind on your debts. So often they dump their car at the airport and fly back before they get the chance to freeze their account. Anyway Nick Stone and his friends find they have been set up and Nick just about gets away and all 3 of his comrades are shot. He visits Iran and Russia in an attempt to get revenge and it does have a happy ending. One thing he says about Iran is they aren't just a bunch of goatherders and are quite intelligent. Despite Americas best attempts they have built nuclear power stations. They also have developed a missile that can deliver a 1,000kg warhead 2,000 km away. They are definitely the most powerful nation in that region. With Russia Andy reckons Putin who was the president started the war in Chechnya to distract the russian public from the corruption in their own country. It is an interesting book even if you just read it for his comments on different countries.

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