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Checkmate [Kindle Edition]

Karna Small Bodman
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Dr. Cameron Talbot has invented a breakthrough technology to defend against cruise missiles. But she needs support from skeptical company officers, funding from a reluctant Congress, and help from the White House to develop her life-saving project. Lt. Col. Hunt Daniels, detailed from the Pentagon to the White House National Security Council to investigate Dr. Talbot’s work, sees the potential of the invention. The fact that he’s attracted to the brilliant scientist adds one more dimension to his interest in her work.
            But disaster is brewing overseas as militants in the disputed Kashmir region of India steal a series of missiles from sympathizers in the Pakistani military and launch one against India. At the same time, they send one of their agents to Washington, D.C., to steal Dr. Talbot’s technology so they can protect themselves when their enemies retaliate.
            The scientist and the NSC staffer find themselves enmeshed in terrorist plots and political wrangling at the highest levels. With scenes in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Capitol Hill, Georgetown restaurants, and Washington dinner parties, as well as action in Kashmir, New Delhi, and at the Taj Mahal, the tension and intrigue escalate until two nuclear-armed countries stand at the brink of war.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 450 KB
  • Print Length: 341 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0765315424
  • Publisher: Forge Books; 1st edition (3 Oct 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B000Q9ISKO
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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2.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother 29 Mar 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Karna Bodman's credentials to write this book lie in her having served in President Ronald Reagan's administration, on the National Security Council and has been a media journalist for 15 years. Unfortunately, they do not make her a good thriller writer. This book is cliched, predictable and the characters are stereotypes you could hardly care less about. Example: The president's comments on the press is "Amazing they even know where Kashmir is. They probably think its where they make sweaters". Hmmm; this from a writer who has an Islamist terrorist group launch a purloined cruise missile in chapter one, then in chapter two introduces the Brilliant, Beautiful, Blonde heroine who, under the avuncular guidance of ex-Army General friend of her father and his evil-accountant partner, is coincidentally working on a computer programme that will take over control of an enemy cruise missile while its in flight and.... then I lost the will to live,or at least to read more than a few chapters further. "High Tension"? Give me a break!
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3.0 out of 5 stars interesting but 18 Jan 2007
By Harriet Klausner - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
At Bandaq Technologies, Cameron "Cammy" Talbot leads a team of brilliant technocrats in developing the ultimate missile defense program. She and her crew ignore the Star Wars initiative of shooting the projectile out of the sky. Instead they concentrate on a program that takes control of an incoming missile's guidance system in order to reverse it; hitting the initiator. Due to unsavory lobbying her program is in jeopardy as Congress considers moving funding to a rival firm supporting the Star Wars initiative.

Still as Cammy and cohorts make major progress, Muslims steal three Pakistani cruise missiles, firing one at India. This terrorist group intends to take over Kashmir as they expect India to reciprocate leading to an all out war with nukes between India and Pakistan.

Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Hunt Daniels meets Cammy when someone tries to kill her. They each feel a strong attraction to one another while someone wants her new technology stopped before completion with her dead before it can be used to prevent a deadly nuclear war.

The premise of this tale is superb, but Karna Small Bodman is unable to decide between a romantic suspense and a nuclear countdown thriller; the reader gets some of both, but the sum of the parts does not quite make a cohesive whole. Still the story line is fun to follow as Cammy races against time to prove her concept works even as she ponders whether Hunt is the hunk who makes her feel complete. Congress seems realistic as money speaks in spite of the cost to the world. Overall this is a fine novel that will please fans of final countdowns to pending disaster with a romantic subplot weaved into the last digits.

Harriet Klausner
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fast paced government thriller (with romance) 10 Feb 2007
By Grace Camille Lyons - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
If you enjoy fast paced books with intrigue and government inside angles...this is a great read. Fasten your seat belts and have fun!

I normally do not read this type of literature, but enjoyed this romp. If you are a fan of The Last Templar, etc., you will want to read this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good read 31 Mar 2010
By J. Robert Ewbank - Published on Amazon.com
This book by Bodman was one that I had a little trouble reading. I finished it and enjoyed it but the plot and storyline got a little sidetracked for me by the government speak and military speak. I know, I know it was a story which involved the government and military,but sometimes for me anyway, they seemed to get in the way of the plot.

Good characters, good plot, the good wins over evil in the end.

A good read.

J. Robert Ewbank author "John Wesley, Natural Man, and the 'Isms'"
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