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STIRLING HUNT

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Full Name: Stirling Hunt
Nationality: British
Organization: MI6
Occupation Agent

Creator: Stewart Clyde
Time Span: 2020 - 2023

ABOUT THE SERIES

Stirling Hunt is an agent with MI6.

To be more accurate, he is "a deniable MI6 black-ops operative who takes his orders from handlers in a special operations division of the Secret Intelligence Service."

His full history, explaining a whole lot more about who he was and why he became such a determined - actually obsessed - terrorist-killing machine, comes in the prequel adventure that was released halfway through the four full-length adventures (as of this writing). In the first two adventures, his motivation was strong but nothing like it was described in that prequel. For that reason, most of what follows here is from that description.

"Hunt was a gifted university student, Olympic-level athlete, and he was in love. Until it was taken from him. After proposing to his beautiful American fiancée, she is taken away from him by a deadly terrorist attack." Elsewhere it is mentioned that "Hunt had been in the first year of his Doctorate, reading Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He stayed on for postgraduate studies, because he was trying to qualify for the Olympics as a rower, and this was his final shot before the real world kicked in and the obligations started."

It was then that he met, dated, and fell in love with Kelly Armstrong, an American finishing her schooling at the same college. That was before she took a quick trip to the American embassy in Tanzania to sign up for a stint with the Peace Corps and was one of the many victims of the Al Qaeda attack there in 1998.

That loss devastated Hunt, at least until he realized "that he had nothing left to live for, and that the love of his life deserved more than the violent death she'd gotten. Now he only had something to kill for."

What would follow would be a fair number of years training for what would eventually become his life with MI6.

BOOKS

Number of Books:4
First Appearance:2020
Last Appearance:2023

1 Blood Feud Blood Feud
Written by Stewart Clyde
Copyright: 2020

"Stirling Hunt is sent on a dangerous mission to steal a rare diamond, infiltrate a criminal mafia, and assassinate its leader. The Special Forces veteran is owed a debt, and he intends to collect."
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2 Black Beach Black Beach
Written by Stewart Clyde
Copyright: 2020

"Stirling Hunt was out. He’d left international espionage behind and disappeared into the underworld of Eastern Europe in search of answers after a life of violence. But, when the Prime Minister’s son is kidnapped, British Intelligence turn to the only covert operative they know who can get him back.
The hostages are being held deep in the west African jungle. And the hostage-taker is demanding something the UK Government cannot give. With the Prime Minister losing patience and ready to invade, the countdown to war has started."
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3 Red Vendetta Red Vendetta
Written by Stewart Clyde
Copyright: 2021

"A secret that could change the balance of power across the world is stolen. It's a race against the clock to find the perpetrators and avert disaster.
Hunt’s third mission evolves from ‘protect the asset’, to ‘find the killer’. In a race against the clock to prove his innocence, and with the whole British intelligence establishment on his tail, can Hunt find the real killers before it's too late?"
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4 Zero Hour Zero Hour
Written by Stewart Clyde
Copyright: 2023

"With a pair of ex-Delta assassins on his tail and a truckload of unfinished business, Stirling Hunt comes out of the darkness and into the light, while a retired Russian admiral is coming in from the cold. Hunt's old boss, confidant, and friend wants him dead. With his cover blown,and on the run, Hunt has no choice but to fight back. What he wants is to be left alone but where there is trouble, Hunt tends to find it."
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NOVELLAS AND SHORT STORIES

Number of Stories:1
First Appearance:2021
Last Appearance:2021

1 English Assassin English Assassin
Written by Stewart Clyde
Copyright: 2021

"Hunt was a gifted university student, Olympic-level athlete, and he was in love. Until it was taken from him. After proposing to his beautiful American fiancée, she is taken away from him by a deadly terrorist attack.
The quest to catch her killer takes Hunt from Egypt, to the United Kingdom, to Afghanistan and back as he seeks retribution against a terrorist mastermind. With the clock ticking and millions of lives on the line, this is an unstoppable novel about a young man primed to become an English assassin."
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MY COMMENTS

I was less than thrilled with the initial rational given in the first book for Hunt's subsequent involvement with MI6. It was ... okay. The second book did not really expand on anything for me but the story was darn good. That is when the prequel novella come out and I read it and after getting over my confusion as to the discrepancies between the two "histories", I decided I really like the novella explanation and that made the third book really good for me.

I do not know if the author has gone back to revise the first book or not. I would recommend strongly reading the novella before anything and then on to the books.

GRADE

My Grade: B

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