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| 35 book The Nathan McBride Series by Andrew Peterson Forced to Kill Author: Andrew Peterson Publisher: Leisure (Jan 2012) Pages: 288 pages Sold by: Amazon Digital Services Inc. Price: €2.33 (Kindle Edition) ASIN: B006WBQOE2 This is Book Two in the Nathan McBride series following on from 'First to Kill' (reviewed July/August 2012). When a mutilated body is discovered in a remote Utah lake it triggers a chain of events that will take Nathan's memory and soul back to his Nicaraguan nightmare. Nathan believes his Nicaraguan interrogator Montez de Oca has now resurfaced on American soil after 14 years in obscurity. McBride's body was scarred beyond belief as Montez de Oca created his work of art with a blade and left him close to death. Now he faces his old enemy where his hatred and want for revenge must be held back so that he can discover de Oca's plan and enact justice. Follow trained marine sniper and exCIA black ops member Nathan McBride on his toughest mission yet as he plays cat-and-mouse with de Oca and ends at the heart of the US government. Option to Kill Print Length: 172 pages Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (Sept 2012) Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Price: €2.33 (Kindle Edition) ASIN: B008MMQ50C McBride returns in the third instalment of the toughest new guy, action thriller of the 'soon to be a movie' series. In a few short steps Andrew Peterson has created a character that other authors only dream of. The action jumps off the page and your life will pass you by as you try to keep track of McBride in a '24' style serial where everything happens so quickly you won't put it down. It starts with a text message that leads to a child abduction of a niece Nathan never knew he had and then Peterson takes us on a rollercoaster shootout after shootout in down-town Los Angles that finally climaxes in the desert. This 36hr story ends in a life-or-death finale I haven't read since 'Point of Impact', the book that became the movie 'Shooter' with Mark Wahlberg. This book was initially released in 7 episodes as a Kindle serial, where you received a serial every 2 weeks over a 3 month period. *All episodes are now available for immediate download as a complete book. Andrew Peterson holds the classification of 'Master' in the US National Rifle Association's High Power Rifle ranking system and has won numerous competitions throughout the US Southwest. When he's not writing, he enjoys scuba diving, target shooting, flying helicopters, hiking and camping, and an occasional round of golf. www.andrewpeterson.com dvd THE EXPENDABLES 2 Directed by: Simon West Featuring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Dolph Lundgren, Jean-Claude Van Damme & Chuck Norris Genre: Action Duration: 1 hr 42 mins Certification: 12 Released: 7 Dec 2012 Simon West (most noted as the screen writer of 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider') brings us the second instalment of 'The Expendables' franchise. The film is a 'Who's-Who' action movie, featuring nearly every action hero from the last two decades, such as: Stallone, Statham, Lundgren, Li, Schwarzenegger and Willis all reprising their roles for this entertaining sequel. Completing the line-up is the legendary Chuck Norris making a great cameo appearance as the lone wolf. Ross (Stallone) is approached by CIA man Mr Church (Willis), who calls in his favour and tasks 'The Expendables' to go to the former Soviet Union to retrieve something that was on a crashed plane. The team find the package but are then ambushed and have their sniper killed by the aptly named Vilain (Van Damme), who leads a group called 'The Sangs'. And so begins a chase to stop Vilain find the buried plutonium and sell it - with some great battles and climaxes. This film is not meant to be taken seriously and the one-liners set the movie off perfectly. game Dead Space 3 Team up and take down the terror together in the third instalment of the Sci-Fi genre 'Dead Space 3'. Isaac Clarke returns, joined by merciless soldier John Carver, they are now on a journey across space to discover the source of the Necromorph outbreak. Crash-landed on the frozen planet of Tau Volantis, Isaac must comb the harsh environment for raw materials and scavenged parts, using his engineering skills to the ultimate test to create and customise weapons and survival tools. Facing more deadly evolved enemies and brutal elements including avalanches, treacherous ice-climbs, the unlikely pair must work together to save mankind from the impending apocalypse. Isaac can choose to team up, not only for his own survival, but for mankind's. Play together with a friend or go it alone as Isaac Clarke using the seamless new drop in, drop out co-op functionality. Each mode offers unique story elements and gameplay. www.deadspace.com Genre: FPS - Platform: Xbox 360, PS3 & PC - PEGI: 18+ - Price €49.97 (PC €39.97) (gamestop.ie). Released: 08 Feb 2013. © 2013 Electronic Arts. All Rights Reserved. www.military.ie the defence forces magazine

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