Liberation Day

Nick Stone saves the world again. Sadly, nobody thanks him (yet again)

From the blurb ....
If Nick Stone wasn't so desperate for his American citizenship, he probably wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job with the CIA. But Carrie is over there and he simply can't refuse the chance of a new life with the woman he loves.

The story starts with Stone, Hubba-Hubba and Lofti on an Algerian job. They're out to kill the baddie: Zeralda. He is a hawallada (al-Qaida money man). They find him with another man, Greaseball, and a gang of frightened boys. Stone then kills and decapitates Zeralda.Once back in Boston, Carrie gets wind of what Stone has been up to. She's not happy and she stomps off. George, Carrie's father, recruits Sone to go to France and kill three other hawallada (to prevent world terrorism). The contact for the job is Greaseball.Stone manages to plant a charge on a boat, then pump one hawallada with ketamine. One down, two to go. Then it all goes to pot. Hubba-Hubba and Lofti bleed to death. Then George reveals that Greaseball has double-crossed al-Qaida and stolen their money. So Stone has to let him go.Stone thinks of Hubba-Hubba and Lofti and of Greaseball making off with the dosh. It wasn't enough to have prevented dozens of major terrorist incidents around the globe. Stone wants revenge. He dials a code into his phone and Greaseball's boat turns into a fireball.

All in all another page turner in the Nick Stone series. However, prepare yourself as it is heavy on tedious preparation and surveillance. The team waits, they prepare, the field work goes on and on. This makes the middle section of the book somewhat slow-moving and unexciting. Hundreds of pages of field work exposition. This needed some pruning. The end was exciting but it would have been better if some of this action interspersed some of the plodding setup.