Nick Stone (Andy McNab character)

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Nick Stone is the main character in a series of books written by Andy McNab. He is an ex-member of elite British army regiment the SAS. Andy McNab has written about Nick Stone in 10 different books. He has had many missions including kidnapping a powerful Russian Mafia Lord, killing a money laundering Algerian business man.

Nick Stone left the Special Air Service in 1987, soon after the shooting of three Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorists in Gibraltar. Once working for British Intelligence as a 'K' on deniable operations, he also briefly worked for an American agency. Now he roams the world as somewhat of a mercenary just trying to keep his head above water.

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Nick Stone's story is depicted as a very traumatic one. He grew up in England with parents who he feels did not care about him. They hardly ever spent family time together, and they never did anything to make his childhood happy. His Father is also suggested to have been a very violent man, and certain passages hint that Nick was a victim of child abuse at his hand (one passage says that his Father locked him in the garden shed on a stormy night and left him there, in the dark and on his own, until the morning). Another says that his Step-Father used to beat him, just because he liked to do it. His mother did nothing to stop this abuse, Stone stating that all she did was let it happen, then give him a Mars Bar afterwards. Nick treated his home as a waiting room until he could leave and, when he finally did, he signed up to the Army, finally being recruited into the SAS. The characters' name and early years were allegedly based on those of a teenage acquaintance of McNab last known working a postman in Dartford.

In remote control he is asked if he is still married to which he replies no he divorced her

In 1987 Stone was involved with a mission in Gibraltar to prevent three PIRA members from detonating a bomb there. This ended with the shooting in public of all three PIRA officials. This event drove Nick to retire from the SAS at some point between then and 1995.

He has had many chapters in his life and led a path that has taken him all over the world, mostly under order of "The Firm" but others out of pure bad luck.