I was skeptical of the bad reviews, but they were right. Once I realized this was a book of failed plans and cascading consequences, I tried to liste..Show More »n to it as a comedy of errors, a spoof on all the unlikely successes of lit characters and movie scenarios where unlikely schemes always succeed. But there's nothing fun about this book, which reminds me of the book about the Brit seafarer and his men enslaved in Africa: too grim for words. The narrator makes the best of some bad material and worse writing. Give tthis one a pass.

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This is another fine effort by McNab. It moves swiftly along, laced with the kind of knowing savvy about his topic that is becoming a welcome hallmark..Show More » of this writer's craft. It also lends itself quite nicely to the audio format. I'd recommend this book to anyone interested in the spy-war-commando action genre.

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Read the publisher's summary and be done with it - it is far more exciting than the book.

If you are a masochist who loves an "action" s..Show More »py story developing at less than a snails pace and don't mind the words "click-click" repeated ten zillion times - this is for you.

The author spends more than six hours describing an almost uneventfull surveillance routine!

A total yawn and waste of an audio credit.

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Enjoyed Remote Control -- in part because of the cool narration -- and looked forward to this one. But Dark Winter seenms padded with endless, apparen..Show More »tly useless detail, and the narration can be hard to take. The narrator fairly screams when he comes to action bits, which I found distracting and even annoying at times. I'd try something else.

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I nearly stopped listening but was glad I didn't. It starts very slow but picks up to be quite interesting.

I was a fan of McNab's Nick Stone series. So when "Brute force" was released, I was keen to read the latest Nick Stone thriller.

I bough..Show More »t "Brute Force" on Audible, but later received the hardcover as gift. I decided to read the book before listening to the audio. After reading the book, I regret buying the audio.

This book is rubbish; the average chapter length is no more than 5 pages. Facts not being checked by the author/editor is illustrated by the following: The main character, Nick Stone, ends up in the Libyan Desert driving an automatic shift Audi Q7, however two chapters later, during a shoot out, the Q7 conveniently `develops' a clutch pedal (which is only possible in a manual shift vehicle)! Mr. McNab, whatever happened to that JB7 and boulder used to block the road? How did it conveniently disappear?

Generally the plot is weak, and re-hash of facts made obvious in all previous books and painstakingly repeated here, which to me, seems like 'padding'. The book seems more like a poorly contrived plot to meet a publisher's deadline or contractual obligation. I reached a point, where I believe that the Nick Stone character has outlived its 'sell by' date. Because McNab starts introducing 'past' facts that were not evident in earlier series, assuming the author wants to maintain that each story is a sequel (since some parts of the story refers to previous adventures)

I wonder who is more stupid, the author for not knowing the difference or the editor/publisher for not realizing this hogwash? Or us readers, for being duped into buying such rubbish? I hope McNab returns to his old style and writes decent stories.


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