Sudden Threat Review

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(More customer reviews)Author A. J. Tata has got to have the hottest new action book out on terrorism by far! His newest book "Sudden Threat" sizzles like an over-heated barrel on a M-60 Machine Gun! There is enough action, suspense, intrigue, death, destruction and dangerous politics for four novels! This book is a winner and will be a definite hit for those who love to read books on the war on terrorism.
The book is well crafted. The plot is dynamite - totally an original way to tell a great story. The dialog is alive and moves the plot forward; but it is his portrayal of the people in the story that allows the reader to fully visualize them in their minds. This is a brilliantly crafted book that is destined to be a top seller! Buy it and read it - it is that good!
"The Military Writer's Society of America" gives this book its top award of FIVE STARS! This book is also on my short list of recommended novels to read!

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In December 2001, CIA paramilitary operative Matt Garrett is mysteriously pulled from Pakistan as he closes in for the kill of Al Qaeda senior leadership and is reassigned to a low-profile mission in the Philippines. But as he sifts through the wreckage of a downed C-130 in the tangled jungle, he finds a dead U.S. Special Forces paratrooper who is not supposed to be there and is thrown into a contest of wits and resiliency in the uncharted rainforests of Mindanao.Manipulated by the secret plans of a powerful quartet of upper-echelon Rolling Stones groupies in Washington, DC, Garrett and U.S. Armed Forces establish their bona fides as true patriots on the cutting edge of freedom as they struggle for survival against the rising tide of Islamic extremism and the reemergence of the Empire of the Sun in the ever-expanding Global War on Terror.In the stunning prequel to his award-winning novel Rogue Threat, A.J. Tata creates an uncanny sense of presence on and off the battlefield in Sudden Threat, a novel rife with conspiracy, diplomatic double-talk, betrayal, loyalty, valor and honor.

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Firestorm: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)Prison did not hold Julio Vargas, Sara Conner's deadliest enemy. He has been bought out of the prison and is paid to train an elite group of terrorists-a group like the United States Special Forces.
Sara Conner is unaware of Vargas's release from the prison and settles into her new life as a teacher and independent woman. With her newfound confidence and sense of self, she contemplates a new relationship with DEA agent Doug Bradford. But Bradford turns up missing.
Written off by his own agency as dead, no one bothers to look for Bradford, or to investigate his disappearance. In the DEA's eyes, Bradford is following his own agenda, and they don't appreciate it.
But Sara Conner isn't buying it. Bradford is the most trustworthy person she knows. She begins her own investigation, which uncovers information the DEA missed, and she and two agents set off to trace Bradford's last steps.
"Firestorm" follows on the heels of "Crossfire," which introduces Sara Conner and her unwitting marriage into a family of criminals that DEA Doug Bradford brings to justice.
Windle's knowledge of Columbia and Bolivia bring to life rich details of this area of the world famous for its constant conflict, drug smuggling and strife. Readers will feel the cloying heat of the tropics and lose themselves in the pages of a thriller with a Christian hero and heroine.
Intrigue, believable bad guys, smart heroes and God's truth-Firestorm has it all and is written with exceptional skill in an arena that holds the elements of today's world, both good and bad, in a believable and thought provoking test of faith, skill and determination.


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Old enemies resurface in the lawless Tri-Frontier region of South America. but, this raging firestorm sweeps across the border...and this time, the flames of terror burn in their homeland.

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Deliver Us from Evil: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)I received a review copy of Robin Caroll's exciting debut novel. Warning: reading this book will keep you up late--compelled to discover the final, exciting conclusion to this wonderful book.

Robin Caroll's characters were strong, brassy and real. Roark reminded me of the U.S. Marshall in the movie The Fugitive. He liked to be in control of everything. His motto, "Don't let them see your weakness."

Brannon reminded me of the female character in G.I. Jane. She's a rough and tough girl you don't want to mess with when she's working. Here's a peak at how Brannon snaps at Roark, " Let me tell you something, Mr. Marshall. I don't care how big and important you think you are--you will not make it out of these mountains without our guidance. So you can stop with the arrogance and know-it-all, take-charge attitude. We must work together to survive."

I felt like I was in the middle of an action adventure movie with fighting, shooting, chase scenes, fires, helicopters and police drama. This is an intriguing story filled with suspense, hope, forgiveness and justice. I enjoyed the comradery among the characters and how they chased down the bad guys. But, I especially enjoyed how this author wove a believable spiritual thread into the story; keeping the main thing the main thing even in the middle of war - I like that.

There's a race to set little girls free from brothels in the USA, before they're shipped to another location. I think Robin handled the topic of sex-trafficking with grace. I'm sure conditions in brothels are worse than described. The author notes she hadn't realized how serious this problem was before doing research. It's horrific.

I enjoyed every second of this book. Can't wait to read the sequel called Fear No Evil. Way to go, Robin Caroll, on writing such a great and exciting debut novel.

Nora St.Laurent
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A beautiful yet tough woman working in a beautiful yet tough setting, Brannon Callahan is a search and rescue helicopter pilot for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Strong faith and a decorated history of service have kept her one step ahead of on-the-job dangers, but there's no precedent for what's about to happen. After a blizzard takes down a small plane carrying U.S. Marshal Roark Holland (already haunted by a recent tragedy), Brannon must save him in more ways than one and safeguard the donor heart he's transporting to a government witness on the edge of death. Otherwise the largest child trafficking ring in history—with shocking links from Thailand to Tennessee—will slip further away into darkness along the Appalachian Trail.Endorsements"Grace-filled storytelling and strong suspense at its best!"--TitleTrakk.com"Compelling. The kind of novel 'ripped from the headlines' was meant to describe."--James Scott Bell, best-selling author of Try Fear"Sparks and bullets fly with equal abandon. Robin Caroll's talent for building romantic tension is second to none, her plot twists intriguing, and her faith elements quite uniquely woven into the tale."--RelzReviewz"The perfect blend of romance and suspense!"--Colleen Coble, author of The Lightkeeper's Daughter"Caroll knows what suspense readers want. A keeper!"--Romantic Times (Top Pick)"Started out with a big punch of adrenaline and didn't let up 'til the last page!"--GoodReads

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Memories Never Die Review

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(More customer reviews)Wow! Memories Never Die is captivating from the very beginning, then it gets better and better. All I can say is that if you are the type of person who likes to read the ending first, DON'T. You don't want to ruin the fun.

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As a veteran and hero of operation Desert Storm and currently an Army National Guard helicopter pilot, Captain Scott Seaver was no stranger to dealing with stressful situations. However, nothing could prepare him for the pain and stress of the delayed effect of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. In Memories Never Die his condition worsens as he stumbles upon a terrorist plot to kill thousands of people. In order to save himself from the disease and his family who are soon taken hostage by a ruthless terrorist, Captain Seaver must first face the demons in his mind. Only then will he be able to do what he must to save his family and thousands of others..

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Wet Desert, a Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)I thoroughly enjoyed reading Wet Desert. It is rare for a book to generate such a compulsion for me to turn the pages. I felt as if I was being pulled through the book. It's fast-paced, intelligent, thought-provoking, cohesive, and entertaining. Wet Desert not only met those criteria, it takes a place among my favorite books, in company with others from Clancy, Crichton, Grisham, and Cussler.
I liked the fact that it was technical enough to lend credibility, but not so much as to be tedious. Characters are well-defined and remain believable and consistent throughout the story. The book presents some thought-provoking issues and offers fascinating facts and insights, but for the most part allows the reader to draw his or her own conclusions. Specifically, the novel provides interesting historical details about the Colorado River, the Glen Canyon and Hoover dams, Lake Powell, and the Colorado River Delta. I found it so intriguing that I did further research, starting with Wikipedia. (In fact, you might want to refresh your knowledge of the Colorado River before you read.) Most importantly, I couldn't wait to set aside time to read Wet Desert and looked forward to turning each page from beginning to end.


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Grant Stevens, a mid-level manager for the Bureau of Reclamation, only wanted to build dams. He never imagined he would be swept into a desperate race against an environmental terrorist bent on restoring the Colorado River by blowing up the dams. Left temporarily in charge of the Bureau, Grant must react when the first dam is attacked. He faces the unthinkable task of mitigating the massive flood roaring down the Colorado. The flood will eventually threaten the mighty Hoover Dam, and if Hoover fails, the other dams downstream will fall like dominos. Working with the FBI, Grant uses his engineering skills, river knowledge, and plenty of gut instinct in an attempt to outmaneuver the terrorist. The chase will lead all the way downstream to the Gulf of California in a cat and mouse game where the stakes are high and the potential for destruction is enormous.

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Sacred Stone (The Oregon Files) Review

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(More customer reviews)I should start by saying I am a big Clive Cussler fan and have read all his books. The only ones I have not enjoyed are the two Oregon Files ones.
There are so many characters I could not remember who was who without having to keep looking at the cast list at the front.
I reached the point of not caring anyway and just kept reading to get to the end. The whole thing reads like a Mission Impossible TV episode but nowhere near as good or exciting.
The scenes in the UK were very sloppy; there are no such things as pound notes and the beefeaters actually guard the Tower of London not Buckingham Palace.
I can only hope that it is Craig Dirgo that is the problem and that when the next Oregon Files book comes out written by Jack DuBrul (who I am a great fan of in his own right) that things will improve.

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A Mammoth Resurrection: abitchibawin Review

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(More customer reviews)A EXCELLENT BOOK THAT BRINGS OUT SOME OF AUTHERS INNER FEELINGS

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Just as Henry Thoreau, Charlie Johnson finds himself an alien to his contemporaries. On a quiet lake he finds solitudesome would suspect a place to heal or hideand a purpose. But his predictable world is shattered when Sheriff Bodeman requires his tracking expertise. The object of the Sheriffs search, a suspected serial killer known as The Skinner, carries a secret of immense importance. The search sets off a chain of events that quickly challenge not only Johnsons survival skills, but also casts him into an unlikely alliance with a corporate executive and a young, out spoken woman deputy. He immediately trusts Jerry Koler, but his relationship with Lora Whitney gets complicated. He owes her his life, but her loyalties are unclear. Johnson has no idea something is missing from his life until he suddenly becomes the hunted, and is forced to come to terms with his own past. A critical turning point in his life becomes the focal point of all past events, even the death of an ancient mammoth. Two months earlier he knew Lora Whitney only by sight, and Jerry Koler, Chris Colby, and Maclin Ethek not at all

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Blackout Review

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(More customer reviews)In Hong Kong, FBI Agent Kat Bronsky and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Robert McCabe wonder. . . where do you go when there is no place to hide from the people chasing after you? McCabe believes he has a partial answer to what caused Sea Air Flight 122 to crash in the Gulf of Mexico, killing over two hundred people. He is convinced that a terrorist act caused the disaster, but has no proof. Kat thinks McCabe has the evidence to prove his assertion. She plans to fly back to Washington with him, but at the last moment is called off the plane.

They agree to meet, but a bizarre incident happens. The pilot of the plane McCabe is flying dies and the co-pilot goes blind. The plane crashes in Viet Nam with only six survivors. Kat rescues them even as the saboteurs give chase. These unknown assailants seem to always be one step ahead of Kat, as if they are being fed insider information from the top. Still, Kat thinks McCabe knows something critical even if he is unaware of its importance. He is the target and she must keep him safe.

John J. Nance is renowned for his pulse pounding thrillers that always take the audience along for one heck of a ride. His latest tale, BLACKOUT, is another triumph for an author with one of the last decade's best résumé. The graphic story line feels so believable that many frequent flyers will take the bus just as many moviegoers avoided beaches after Jaws. The engaging characters gain empathy, as what happens to McCabe and Kat seems important to the reader. Mr. Nance provides his fans with an electrifying tale that shows how talented he is.

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Fire Flight: A Novel (Nance, John J) Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been in the business of wildland firefighting and airtankering for more than three decades, and I'm darn proud of the image of my brethren that John Nance paints in this grand novel. Clark Maxwell and Bill Deason, if not psuedonyms for real airtanker pilots, represent the best among us, and the flight sequences are steller. So, for that matter, is the character development, and the depth of Clark's attitudes and opinions and struggles, especially where Karen Jones is concerned. I've known at least three Karen Jones in the smokejumper circles, and Nance's descriptions are dead on. I'm aware there are some rancid comments from one of my mad-about-everything fellow pilots posted here, but disregard his nonsense. This is great fiction against the background of the real deal, and you can take that from one who's been there. Recommend this to evryone you can. If they listen to this man, we just might get some things fixed in Washington!

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Call to Duty Review

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(More customer reviews)"Call to Duty" was not bad as novels go. The idea of the two parallel plots, one in WW II and the other in the present-day, was an interesting concept, and each of the two plotlines on its own was excellent, however the constant switching between the two in the text did get a bit tiresome. A great insight into the background of Herman's characters, with favorites from The Warbirds, Firebreak, etc. A must-read for Richard Herman fans.

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Running from the Devil Review

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(More customer reviews)I start each book I read full of optimism, hoping to be able to rave about it. Especially in the case of a book like Running from the Devil, a debut thriller written by a woman and featuring a female protagonist. I wanted to love it. It's true that I was racing to finish reading it. But, alas, it was only so I could be done with it and move on to something more enjoyable.
I have to admit that the opening is strong. The reader is plunged into a plane crash as seen through the eyes of the afore-mentioned female protagonist, Emma Caldridge. Emma is a biochemist working in the cosmetics industry. She had been flying to Columbia to hunt for botanicals to use in her work. While she dozed, the flight had been taken over by hijackers. Many passengers die when the plane is forced down onto a too-small landing strip. Emma is thrown clear of the wreckage, miraculously unharmed. She manages to avoid being captured with the 70 other survivors by the guerrillas that hijacked the flight. A plane-load of Americans are valuable hostages.
And so begins an epic rumble in the jungle. Emma is the wild card, trailing the guerrillas and hostages. She seems to have a hidden agenda, but we don't know what it is. To this mix, add a lone drug enforcement officer, American government and military assets, Columbian government and military assets, good and bad mercenaries, any number of drug cartels and paramilitary groups, a child soldier, some indigenous peoples, and two bomb-sniffing dogs. Shake well.
It's not a bad set-up, but I began to have problems with the novel early on. Simply put, I had a big problem with believability. Little things... When time is of the essence, why drive over to a company to acquire basic information that can be achieved with a phone call? Would the US government allow a contractor field a major press conference on his own? Call me a nit-picker, but lots and lots of these little things took me out of the story. As I got deeper and deeper into the book, the actions of the characters became so over the top I couldn't believe any of it.
My other big problem was the utter lack of subtlety in the storytelling. I could give any number of examples, but I feel like I'm droning. I don't want to imply that Ms. Freveletti has done nothing right, but it wasn't enough. I would add that is disingenuous of Morrow to market the book as featuring "the speculative-science adventure of James Rollins." As if.
Now, I'm willing to overlook any number of flaws when I'm caught up in a novel, but I never was caught up. I realize mine is the minority opinion, but by the time I reached the end, Running from the Devil was simply tedious.

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Icefire Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is one of the few that I just could not put down. The story is interwoven with such high-tech equipment and so believable that once you are in you can't let go. The military equipment mentioned in the book is on the edge of fiction and fact. A must read for anybody who is into a militaristic fiction plot that seems based on quite alot of fact.

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The Sentinel: A Wildfire Story Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm almost done the book. It is great! The Sentinel is full of a lot of humour, a great number of intertwined storylines, and numerous teaching moments. The McNeil character is only one of many that are both entertaining and have depth.


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Within a relatively short snapshot intime, thirty-four days, on a significant piece of forestland, eighty thousand one hundred and fifty hectares, orclose to two hundred thousand acres, a drama unfolds. It isthe drama associated with the very real story of wildfire.Antagonists impacted by wildfire include not only the higherspecies, or so we'd like to see ourselves, but also ourcodependants we categorize as flora and fauna.A fastmoving cold front crosses northeastern Ontario, bringingwith it heavy lightning and the promise of wildfire due toextreme drought conditions. An aging trapper spends a lastsummer in his cabin and struggles to come to terms with theloss of his wife and his own mortality. A sow bear and hercub wander into unfamiliar territory in search of food inorder to survive.Ontario's fire staff, faced with theworst fire season they've experienced in a decade, will bepushed to the brink when Wawa fire 43 cannot be contained.And an ancient white pine on a ridge bears witness to eventsas they unfold, events that may result in devastatingconsequences for this sentinel of the forest.

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