hey youguuuuys!

I finished this book last night, and it was brilliant. Bit of a blurb from amazon.co.uk

Nick Stone undertook a mission to Afghanistan in the late 80s with a mysterious femme fatale, the posh Sarah; they had a fling and she promptly dumped him on her return. In 1995, they meet up briefly on another undercover mission to Syria which starts to go horribly wrong as Sarah appears to be working to a different briefing. Then, in 1998, Stone gets a summons on his pager to meet his bosses at Gatwick. Sarah has gone AWOL (Absent Without Official Leave) from her apartment in Washington DC and Stone’s job is to find her. This he ingeniously achieves quite quickly and there then follows a long, tense chase across the US. Sarah’s true past, and the secret that she holds, is gradually revealed and the ending is truly gripping.

The best thing about this book is the journey you undertake. After I finished it i flicked to the front of the book and thought “fucking hell!…what a class journeey..and only for 45p” it’s a long book ~550 pages and McNab describes everything so accuretley. There’s about 10 pages based on Nick Stone getting his mission breif in the back of a car. Then i started to think about the 24 novels and thought they’re sureley way too short. i’d be pissed off if they didn’t describe every detail of every hour. (that’s the whole point on 24) it just seems a bit too short. Anyway Crisis Four is book 2 in a long series. It was much better than the first book and the next one is called Firewall, i’ll get that off ebay. and you must be making it if…

Due to the extremely sensitive nature of his work with the SAS, Andy McNab is the only author who has to submit his fiction to the British Ministry of Defense for review, and he is still wanted by a number of the world’s terrorist organizations. He is therefore forbidden to reveal either his face or his current location.

So what have I picked up now? Mike Gayle’s My Legendary Girlfriend. It sounds a bit crap, yes. it’s about relationships and all that. hell, all of Gayle’s books are about that. But this one feels different. I’ve read all his other novels and i liked them. they were nice and quick reads, written ‘comfortable’ langauge. (i read his latest one on Boxing Day…start to finish) This is his debut novel and it just feels fresh and he uses language in a clever way. It almost feels like a different author. I thought Gayle was good with his other novels now i think he’s mint (on this book anyway)

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bought my DS today, turno got a good deal. DS, mario kart DS and Warioware Touched! for £115. wanna get ouendan! but might leave that for a bit and get the wifi dongle and mario kart ds, warioware and animal crossing (cheers ) should keep me busy for a while.

also been working on my CV tonight. redoing it all. using turon’s cv as a bit of a helping hand (hope you don’t miiind..you don’t anyway. i’ve asked you).

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