LAST Light is the fourth Nick Stone thriller from former SAS-Sergeant Andy McNab.

Now established as one of the UK's top selling thriller writers, McNab draws heavily on his experiences in the world's most highly trained and skilled Special Forces unit to make his fiction writing explosive, fast-paced and highly authentic.

Nick Stone, ex-SAS, now working as a K on deniable operations for the Special Intelligence Service. Tasked with carrying out an assassination at Westminster that has been sanctioned by the Foreign Secretary himself, Stone realises almost too late that something is wrong. He aborts the operation, but is met with an ultimatum from his bosses: fly to Panama and finish the job, or Kelly, the 11-year-old orphan in his guardianship, will be killed.

Stone is under pressure. He prepares to carry out his task in the Central American jungle, aided by two American eco-scientists on the CIA payroll. But as events unfold, it becomes evident that nothing in Panama is quite what it seems and Stone finds himself in the middle of a conspiracy involving Colombian guerrillas, the US government and Chinese big business -- with hundreds of innocent lives at stake. (Transworld £16.99).