- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Headline Feature; 1st ed 1st printg edition (2 Dec 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0747222908
- ISBN-13: 978-0747222903
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.4 x 4.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,542,794 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When renegade African general, Obe Belewa, seizes power in Liberia, it's the first step in a plan to unite all of West Africa under his rule. And unless he can be stopped, the continent will be sucked into a devastating conflict which could cost thousands of lives.
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Format:Paperback
Commander Amanda Lee Garrett returns in this latest novel from Simon Cobb. With the USS Cunningham in dry dock following the events portrayed in Sea Strike, Commander Garrett is assigned to a United Nations task force operating in West Africa. Her mission is to bring a halt to the empire building schemes of General Obe Belewa.
The setting is that of a littoral warfare environment and is extremely reminiscent of accounts of coastal and riverine activities along the Mekong Delta in the Vietnam War.
The main characters are very true to life while having a cavalier attitude to standard US Navy doctrine and adopt new ones all within the proper chain of command, much as did the crews of the US Navy Monitors and 'Swift' boats in Vietnam. The Vietnam War was another time, and Seafighter combines high technology PGACs (Patrol Gunboat- Air Cushion) equipped with a wide array of weaponry, stealth features and general versatility to perform the littoral and riverine combat role. Commander Garret must put these to great use along with her own brand of guile and cunning to operate within UN mandates to defeat a devious enemy. An enemy which has no regards for UN mandates and who will try anything to achieve his dream of uniting West Africa under his control.
Overall, a great book with plenty of action and military planning. I eagerly look forward to Simon Cobb's next offering.
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I bought this book, having read all the other Amanda Garrett books in the series already. I bought the sequel to this(Target Lock) as my first James Cobb book, and thought I'd pick up the rest over time. Boy was I wrong. As the 3rd book in the series, all the main characters had been given filling, fleshing them out to make them believable. Cobbs' choice? Take the hero and her sidekick, the "blonde Valley girl" Intelligence officer, and remove the ship, the rest of the crew, and the love interest. The entire book takes place on or off the coast of Africa, and every character added has been done before. Cobb could have phoned this book into the publishers, and, entertaining as some parts are, taking a high-tech future fighting unit and taking all the technology away makes it a very, very forgettable book.
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