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The fight against terrorism has reached the next level— and now America will really go to war.
A series of cataclysmic events is exploding around the world. Two divisions of Chinese ground troops move against a neighboring Muslim nation, while a provocation unleashes generations of pent-up violence between the mainland and Taiwan. With U.S. troops still on the ground in the Middle East and “Ganistan,” and an American president forced by rapidly unfolding events to make decisions on the fly, the most dangerous threat is the one no one sees.
For off the fog-shrouded coast of Washington State, a staggering attack will flood the Northwest with American refugees and force the bravest and the best of U.S. Special Forces under the toughest of the tough, General Douglas Freeman, into a pitched, desperate battle to find a shadow enemy—before he strikes the next terrifying blow against the United States.
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First Sentence
FAST-ROPING DOWN FROM the hot, oily smell of the Pave Low chopper into the Stygian darkness of a frigid ravine, seven U.S. Special Force commandos ran quickly out of the down-blast over snow-dusted rocks toward a six-foot-high, three-foot-wide fissure in the sheer rock face-the mouth of the suspect cave. Read the first page
I love Slater's books and have been reading them avidly since I found them in the US years ago.
They are all similar in plot and characters etc but that is no bad thing. This book sees the Special Forces chaps and various others trying to sort out the terrorist baddies on Uncle Sam's very door step. Disaster piles on disaster until they overcome the odds and put the world to rights... for now.
If I had one criticism it is in the technical jargon etc. Mr Slater needs to read his Janes a bit more often - for example the F16 has but one jet engine. His books are littered with such oddities. One of his older ones has a RAF Jaguar shooting down a Russian bomber with an Exocet! One of three it seems these planes can carry (hmm it is a fiction book so...). He knows his stuff and then drops in this silliness. Oh well I forgive him when he turns out such rattling good reads as Choke Point!
On-going Story of a possible World War III scenario - common characters to some earlier "episodes". As a Hi-Tech thriller Choke Point can be un-putdownable, but I feel the basic scenario stretches credulity somewhat, but to say more on this would ruin the plot !! As a thriller I would rate it 4-5, but the basic premise lowers my rating to a 3.
I read a lot of books - primarily technothrillers. I have read all of Tom Clancys, Larry Bonds, Larry heads and many mores books. But I have NEVER experienced on who was so completely incompetently researched! That is a very big problem in a technothriller as the book continuously fails to negate your disbelieve - simply because there are SO many factual mistakes and errors, to name a few: talking about a 7-man team and then only describing 5 (the 2 remaining having disappeared?, talking about IR tape - STUPID mistake as it is reflective tape that is used by SOF operatives in tandem with starlightscopes and NVG, A sniper taking out a Pawe Low helicopter with One shot - and then suddenly it can fly again.
This a just a few of the more glaring mistakes. From the FIRST chapter. But he keeps droning on and on piling mistake upon mistake including an almost immortal Mini/midgetsub the fight with which fills MOST of the book. Completely unrealistic and frankly pretty boring towards the end.
This could perhaps have been a good book - if only the author had consulted someone who knew what he was talking about. As it is, then I have put down the book a lot of times already but have picked it up because I kept telling myself that there MUST be something interesting somewhere in it. But no.
This is nothing but a poor copy of better authors work, ie. Clancy/Bond et al. Mr. Slater could have put his shallow and completely superficially described characters in any other context because they make no sense in this and he could hardly have made it worse if the plot was a welsh sheepherder and his mates running a feud against the british lord, with a juiced up sheepdog running constant interference.
All in all its just an attempt to capitalize on the technothriller genre.
If you know anything about military DONT buy it - if not and you are not too squamish about lacking plot and believability, then buy it. If its on a REALLY good discount.
