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Andy McNab's British intelligence agent, Nick Stone, is enough of a rebel to be denied a permanent place on the SAS roster, but he's dragooned into a freelance assignment with an ultimatum from his former employers. He's to find Sarah Greenwood, a missing agent who's thought to have defected from the service to aid Muslim militants intent on blowing up the world, or go to prison and also lose the only other female he's ever loved besides Sarah: a 9-year-old girl whose dead parents, Nick's closest friends, left her in his care.

Nick manages to locate Sarah without much difficulty, but when he's ordered to kill her, he has a change of heart. The hunter turns into the hunted, as Nick and Sarah flee her hiding place in the North Carolina woods and try to outwit the police, the intelligence services, and a team of assassins directed by Osama bin Laden. As they make their way to Washington to preempt a plan to kill Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu, Nick tries to sort out his conflicted feelings about Sarah. Is she part of bin Laden's team, a so-called runner who's a threat to the CIA and the SAS, or is she a loyal operative trying to outwit a highly placed traitor in the White House? Crisis Four is strong on its depiction of agents in the field; McNab excels at describing every last detail of the hunt, the chase, the kill. One can almost see this former SAS agent replaying scenes from his own past and struggling to get them right:

I raised the arrow in the air again and rammed it down hard. It hit against the bone again, but this time it slid off and lodged deeper into his neck. I felt him stiffen, his muscle tensing up to resist the penetration. The gardening glove gave a good grip as I pushed harder, twisting the arrow shaft to maximize the damage. I was hoping to cut into his carotid artery or spinal cord, or even find a gap to penetrate his cranium, but instead I ended up severing his windpipe. Now I had to hold him as he asphyxiated, try to stop his body-jerking from getting out of hand and becoming noisy as I waited for him to die. His movements gradually subsided to no more than a spasmodic twitching in his legs. The last reserve of strength he'd found as he saw his life slowly get darker was now exhausted. I could see dark blood oozing out of the wound; it followed along the shaft of the arrow to my glove and dripped onto the floor. When I moved my arm away from his mouth he made no sound.

The explosive denouement in the White House bowling alley ultimately reveals Sarah's true colors. It comes as no surprise to anyone except Nick, but it caps a terrific suspense story written by an author who clearly knows what he's about. --Jane Adams -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

From Library Journal

President Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, and Palestinian leader Arafat are getting ready to sign a cease-fire agreement in a ceremony on the lawn of the White House. Hundreds of school children have assembled to sing hymns of peace, and at a prescribed moment, hundreds of white doves will be released into the air, signifying a hopeful end to decades of conflict. As the leaders approach the ceremony, a terrorist activates a . Let's go back a few years to when British agent Nick Stone meets a mysterious woman known only as Sarah. On their first mission together, she nearly gets his team killed, but once the operation is over, they become lovers. Years go by and Stone loses track of her until one day he is summoned into the offices of his superiors and given a mission: kill Sarah because she apparently turned traitor. His mission leads him from the backwoods of South Carolina to the steps of the White House, where he learns of betrayal and deceit from the people he trusts. This white-knuckle thriller represents the finest in suspense fiction today and brings to mind the best of Alistair MacLean. British narrator Steven Crossley brings his theater training to the forefront, giving each character perfect inflection and a unique personality. Highly recommended for all public libraries.DJoseph L. Carlson, Lompoc P.L., CA
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Good book, but in American English 9. Januar 2002

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Again a nice and entertaining book worth reading. There's just one flaw with this edition: it has been re-written into American English, so if you are not American and/or want the original Brit text, invest one or two bucks (or quid or euro) and go for the Corgi edition. As for McNab: keep up the good work!

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Always the same... 10. Juli 2007

Von S. Arnold

Crisis Four is more or less the same like all others. Well, if you haven't read any of McNab's stories than you're well entertaint. However, after reading some of them, the basic story is always the same.
He has no money, he has to take care of somebody, he has to accept a job, he doesn't want to do - otherwise he'll loose the few things he has, he plans the operation, something went wrong, he'll loose his best mate, the mission is a success.

Seems to me that McNab is going over and over again the Bravo Two Zero Story. Probably, that's the way, he's dealing with this situation.

So basically I think that if you put all (fiction) stories from McNab together, then you have a pretty good idea what really happend in Iraq (at least from his point of view).

MI5 FBI CIA alle sind dabei und wieder einmal gegeneinander 31. Juli 2001

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Eine gute Perspective vom Hauptdarsteller und dazu ein bisschen 'normales' Leben sowie aktuelle Bezüge die natürlich in Richtung Naher Osten gehen.. alles wie gehabt aber liebevoll und detailliert beschrieben. Keine Eine-Nacht-Buch, man braucht auch mal eine Pause und er kommt NOCH nicht and John Irving usw heran aber sicherlich beim nächsten Mal..ich werde jedenfalls jetzt nach seinen anderen Büchern Ausschau halten und auf das nächste neue warten!