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RAF Tempests are crashing on routine missions and no one knows why. The Investigation Bureau is blaming pilot error. Suspicious of the cover-up, Flight Lieutenant Drew Miller, whose friends have been among the fatalities, determines to find out more. It soon becomes clear that the key to the mystery is in the cockpit of the Tempest, but how can he unlock it without ending up dead himself?
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
John Nichol is probably best known as one of the British Tornado crew shotdown in the (first) Gulf War, beaten up & paraded on Iraqi T.V. When heleft the Airforce in 1996 he started writing- first the account of hisexploits in the desert then fiction . There's some obvious comparisionswith Andy MacNab & Chris Ryan, but ironically Nichols fiction is probablymore factual than the "actual events" described by the "heroes" of BravoTwo Zero.
Point of Impact is a good example. The plot is quite simple RAF GS1 & RS3"Tempest" fighters (GR1 & FS3 Tornado's with just enough authormodification to avoid a libel court!) are dropping out of the sky becauseof errors in their fly by wire systems. The RAF & the manufacturers arekeen to hush it up rather than sabotage a multi-billion dollar arms dealto "2 Arab States" (its clearly just coincidence that Saudi Arabia &Kuwait bought Tornadoes.....). Hero Drew Miller is nearly killed in onesuch crash & is implicated in it by a biased court of inquiry... he'sforced to investigate the accidents himself to clear his name.
Add in some air-combat over Bosnia (Nichol's last operational posting) &you've got a very authentic thriller. Clancy & Dale Brown concentrate fartoo much on the technology of war. Nichol's writes first hand about thehuman factor, which makes a welcome change for the genre. This book hasleft me wondering if there's anything REALLY wrong with RAF Tornado's. Italso left me shopping for more of Mike Nichol's books. Well recommended.
Point of Impact is a good example. The plot is quite simple RAF GS1 & RS3"Tempest" fighters (GR1 & FS3 Tornado's with just enough authormodification to avoid a libel court!) are dropping out of the sky becauseof errors in their fly by wire systems. The RAF & the manufacturers arekeen to hush it up rather than sabotage a multi-billion dollar arms dealto "2 Arab States" (its clearly just coincidence that Saudi Arabia &Kuwait bought Tornadoes.....). Hero Drew Miller is nearly killed in onesuch crash & is implicated in it by a biased court of inquiry... he'sforced to investigate the accidents himself to clear his name.
Add in some air-combat over Bosnia (Nichol's last operational posting) &you've got a very authentic thriller. Clancy & Dale Brown concentrate fartoo much on the technology of war. Nichol's writes first hand about thehuman factor, which makes a welcome change for the genre. This book hasleft me wondering if there's anything REALLY wrong with RAF Tornado's. Italso left me shopping for more of Mike Nichol's books. Well recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A fair attempt. In his debut novel John Nichol does a reasonable job. However I remember the story "Rolling Thunder" by John (Templeton) Smith which dealt with the same subject matter as this story way back in the mid-eighties (a better story by half)...
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I'm not usually one for reading this type of book, the subject matter is not my cup of tea. However, I purchased the audiobook version read by John Nettles purely because I love his voice; he could read me the telephone book and make it come alive. So, from the moment Mr Nettles began reading I was instantly part of the book, as if I was standing there watching proceedings. The audio is fantastic. Not only does Mr Nettles have this amazing voice but with a light nuance here and a lightening or hardening of tone there he becomes a different character, effortlessy going from one character to the next; he's a great actor and he really brings this book to life. This book isn't so much read as acted, and boy are you in for a treat if you buy this, you'll be instantly transported into the story and it's a really good story too. Full of twists and turns, surprises and action, you won't want to stop this once you start the tape. I didn't, I listened to the whole three hours and I am going to go listen again.
It doesn't get any better than this, a great great story brought to life in the hands of the master storyteller, the never bettered John Nettles.
It doesn't get any better than this, a great great story brought to life in the hands of the master storyteller, the never bettered John Nettles.
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Top Gun - in book form!!
Like most people I'd heard of John Nichol, and remember the horrific scenes on Iraqui TV. A part of me wondered if he was just cashing in on his name, to carve a new career? Read more
Published on 3 Oct 2009 by Lara Croft
Brilliant...you will never put it down!
This is the second Tom Clancy book I have ever read and I am 13. It is a total thriller about a drug which can take peoples body and minds over. Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2001
Action at the speed of sound.
An action-packed debut novel. John Nichol sticks to the adage 'write about what you know about', and to very good effect. Read more
Published on 6 Oct 2000
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