Andy McNab News

The new Nick Stone will be released 15 September and is named ‘Dead Centre’:

Indonesia, January 2005. Nick Stone is working undercover, to retrieve incriminating material from amongst the tsunami-ravaged chaos of a devastated landscape. His team is attacked and a man dies — but not before he makes an agonising promise that will return one day to haunt him…

Moscow, March 2011. Semi-retired but restless, Stone finds himself at the centre of an extraordinary encounter which turns his world upside down. An oligarch’s young son and heir has been snatched — with his mother — from aboard a luxury yacht in the Seychelles, and only one man has what it takes to track them down and bring them home.

The fuse is lit, and Stone is hurtled into his most complex and compelling mission yet — a mission that leads him from the Alpine enclaves of the super-rich to the savage underbelly of war-torn Somalia. And in a world where piracy, extortion and betrayal lurk in the twisted wreckage of imperial ambition, Stone’s principal objective turns remorselessly from liberation to revenge…

Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Bantam Press (15 Sep 2011)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0593065220
ISBN-13: 978-0593065228

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Lots of articles about Jason Statham being in sight to perform Nick Stone in the upcoming movie Echelon, based on the Andy McNab novel ‘Firewall’. I’m not going to post them all here. We know Andy McNab said ages ago he would like Jason Statham to get the Nick Stone part “since he’s such a nice guy”. We’ll see but time is running and it won’t be long until we’ll know for sure, so… to be continued!

The articles also say that Hyde Park will try to sell Echelon at the Berlin movie festival and that a director has been found.. Simon Crane – a ’stunt coordinator previously known for his work on Angelina Jolie vehicles  The Tourist and Salt’. It will be his directors debut. Good luck Simon, don’t let Andy’s many fans down!

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More Tour Dates – Andy is really busy this month!

Manchester 26/01/2011

Waterstone’s Manchester Deansg
7:00PM
£3, available from the shop and redeemable against the purchase of the book on the night
Further details: 08432908485
Go here for more details

Formby  27/01/2011  Thanks for alerting us Angel

In conjunction with the Formby Branch of Rotary Club and Help for Heroes 
The event will be ticket only at Treetops Country Hotel, Liverpool Rd, Formby
Go here for more details

Hertforth Heath 31/01/2011 

Haileybury. A charity fundraiser for Help for Heroes
Adults: £10. Under 18s, over 65s & military personnel: £6
Group reductions for 10 or more.
Booking: books @ Hoddesdon 79, High Street
Hoddesdon EN11 8TL 01992 442290
Go here for more details

Other Tour dates  (for details see our earlier post):

25/01/2011 Bookmark, Spalding

28/01/2011 Bishopswood House Bishopswood Ros-On-Wye

01/02/2011 Rainham Library

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Andy was guest columnist in ZOO Magazine. Angel sent us the scanned version, I had to cut & paste a bit to make it fit the post here. Thanks Angel, it’s great!

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Killing? It’s just a job for Andy McNab. The highly decorated soldier and best-selling author feels no fear; rather he enjoys the excitement of conflict. But is this physically powerful man actually an emotional coward? And is anyone brave enough to ask him?

Interview: Andy McNab, soldier and best-selling author
Published Date: 30 November 2010
By Catherine Deveney

ANDY McNab is the most affable, good-humoured man you could meet, which makes his absence of empathy all the more startling. The ex-SAS man, the most decorated soldier in the British Army since the Second World War, and now best-selling author of the Nick Stone thriller series, is sitting with a Diet Coke, agreeing he “couldn’t have cared less” the first time he killed a man.

What if someone got run over and killed in front of him? “Well, they’re dead, aren’t they? What’s the point in being upset?” Married five times, he talks with equal detachment about ex-wives. What does his fifth wife think of him? “That I’m a dickhead.” Thing is, he’s just been tested for an experiment at Cambridge university and the parts of his brain governing empathy and fear were both visibly underdeveloped.

How did he feel about that? “Great,” he says. We both laugh. Even the psychologist joked about it. “He said, ‘You don’t care do you?’” And McNab’s wife? “She just said, ‘I know’. She’s known for years. That’s why she says I’m a dickhead.”

Blue eyes … dark hair … the craggy side of handsome. Friendly and engaged. McNab is never photographed openly – nor does he use his real name – because of his intelligence background in Northern Ireland. But we meet in a London hotel and he talks fast, in a Cockney drawl, with the openness of a man who’s figured things out and doesn’t much care what others think. Clues to his extraordinary levels of detachment are all there in a complex life story, from his abandonment as a baby to his capture and torture in Iraq. There are clues in his books too. The man who entered the British army with a reading age of 11 has just published Zero Hour, the 13th Nick Stone novel. Stone, a tough, independent intelligence operative, is a largely autobiographical creation, McNab admits. It’s easier that way. He describes Stone as “an emotional dwarf”. But he also says he has the capacity to be “soft as shit”. Draw your own conclusions.

Go here to read the full interview in The Scotsman

Andy McNab in The Scotsman 2010

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