- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press (20 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312872054
- ISBN-13: 978-0312872052
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 x 3 cm
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Jack Novak is E. Howard Hunt's answer to James Bond. A smart, savvy hero for the 90's, Novak isn't afraid to let the bullets fly or the bad guys get what's coming to them. He charmed both readers and the sensuous heroines of Cozumel, Islamorada and Mazatlan. Now, in Sonora, we finally get the Jack Novak adventure that started it all.
The year the Guadalajara cartel tortured and murdered Kiki Camarena, Jack Novak was working out of the Nogales DEA office. Within six months he'd find himself facing down the worst of the Central American drug traffickers, avenging the kidnapping of an innocent and stopping a crooked politician with his sights on the Mexican presidency. In a desperate effort to help the beautiful Susana, Novak quickly learns he must take the law into his own hands.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This one is bad.
16 Jan 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I mean really bad. I like novels usually. I could not read more than 10 or 15 pages of this book. It seemed like it was not written by a real writer.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
I wouldn't pay money for it ....
30 April 2001
Format:Hardcover
... but then I get many free books from my job.
The action is interesting enough, and I may finish it when I get really bored. However, Mr. Hunt doesn't know a whole lot about civilian aviation, though I read he was a naval aviator. He really should learn this stuff before writing the book. i.e. Twin Comanchee with a wet bar! It only has enough room for the four seats, and what about the Grumman [sic] Skyhalk with an eight-cylinder engine? I'm afraid not. 8 cylinders is not done much (cooling problems) except in the 400 Hp version of the single-engine Piper Comanchee. It goes on like that.
Secondly, though this is only a novel, I think the author's views on the drug war are irksome, to say the least. The pilot/DEA man narrator of the story is pretty full of himself as the savior of the Mexican priests, etc. He thinks nothing wrong with making use of all the airplanes and motor vehicle's that the DEA has illegally siezed, many from people only remotely connected with drug crimes. His character feels it's OK to torture, firebomb people's ranches, etc. in the name of "Just Say No". The US Constitution (and missionaries in Cessna 185s in Peru) be damned, I guess.
Well, I hope Mr. Novak, the DEA man, gets shot in the back before the end of the book. I don't think it's gonna happen though (wouldn't want to spoil the ending anyway), and if it does, it won't be soon, as I put the book on a big pile.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
A Great Fun Read!!
7 July 2003
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Mr. Hunt does not take himself too seriously. The Jack Novak series is meant to be a fun read with some terrific, realistic facts that only a former CIA man could provide. Great summer fare.
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