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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780060524104
ISBN number: 0060524103
Label: Avon
Manufacturer: Avon
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 416
Printing Date: June 01, 2004
Publishing house: Avon
Release Date: May 25, 2004
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Just prior to a precedent–shattering U.S.–Chinese weapons treaty signing at a Beijing summit, a covert CIA operation to place sensors that record low–level underground nuclear tests near the PRC's secret site at Lopnur in Western China goes awry.
The CIA team is captured by Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) guerillas. With the clock ticking and the summit approaching, the President mobilizes a top–secret unit–Task Force 160 of the Army's Special Operations Air Regiment栮d orders a team of Spec Warriors to rescue the American intel squirrels before the Chinese find out what has happened, cancel the summit, and embarrass the U.S. Then, satellite intelligence reveals that not only have renegade Uzbeks captured the Americans, they have also seized a thirty–year–old, capacitor–fused nuclear device from the Chinese military.
Within hours, an ultra–sensitive National Reconnaissance Office FORTAE (Fast Onboard Recognition of Transient Atomic Experiments) Ⲯiffer⟳atellite indicates the IMU has somehow armed the devise. National Reconnaissance Office photos show the nuke and the hostages heading for the Pamirs and Afghanistan, where remnants of the IMU al Qaeda allies still hold out. That is followed by a National Security Agency communications intercept: the Chinese president has secretly dispatched a Zhongdui (Special Forces) unit from the Jin Jiancha Zhu (Tactical Reconnaissance Office) of the People's Liberation Army to hunt down the terrorists and retrieve the nuke.
The only good news is that Beijing doesn't know the IMU is holding six American hostages渥t. Now, the U.S. team must not only beat the Zhongdui to the IMU guerrillas so it can extract the CIA team covertly, the rescuers must also take a Department of Energy expert to defuse the unstake nuke without leaving any American fingerprints.
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Four CIA operatives have been covertly inserted into China to plant devices that will measure if the Chinese are secretly testing smaller yield nuclear devices. They are ambushed by a group of Islamic terrorists who have also highjacked an unstable older nuclear device. The President orders Major Michael Ritzik to lead a top secret element of Delta Force into the area to rescue the CIA men and disarm the nuclear device. Along with the Delta Force group Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Tracy Wei-Liu is added to the group to actually deactivate the device. Several Chinese gunships are encountered and dispatched. The escape is made in a captured Chinese helicopter. Weisman writes authoritatively. The book moves along quite well. Though, I think it bogs down a bit during the planning stage of the mission. Still, quite a worthwhile read.
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While some things require a leap of faith, and not a little imagination, this story is very much the work of a master story teller. It isn't anything like the books he does with Dick Marcinko, but that takes away nothing; the two have very different styles, and this is a different story. BRAVO!
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WOW! this book is so amazing! IT IS SO EXCITING AND EXHILERATING! ITS SO GOOD! So far I am at page 8, I'm about to read more of it. I recommend this book to page 8, its so cool. For a full review of the book, read other peoples so you can listen to someone who got to, at least page 9. My favorite part of the book so far is when he puts his glasses on, ITS SO INTENSE!
P.S. The book is utterly confusing.
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The story is simple and straightforward: A clandestine CIA team operating at the Chinese-Uzbek border are taken captive by Islamic guerillas, who have also hijacked a tactical, nuclear weapon. The Combat Applications Group, CAG, aka Delta Force, is sent in to quietly rescue the CIA team and retrieve the nuke without getting caught by Chinese special forces. What makes the novel stand out is the level of detail taken to portray the planning and execution of the mission at every step of the way. The title is an odd choice since the Special Operations Aviation Regiment do not play as large a role as the title suggests. A more appropriate title would have been CAG or Delta, but it's a superior thriller nonetheless, and probably one of the most realistic portrayals of the Delta Force in fiction. Hopefully the author will turn out more books like this, but his subsequent ones (Jack in the Box; Direct Action) focus more so around the CIA.
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If you're looking for a fairly quick, Clancy-esque beach read, you could do worse than SOAR. I know, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement. But this action yarn has all the realism in technical details and battle engagements that you'd wish for-and for some people that's all they want.
SOAR is about a secret Delta Force rescue mission to extract a covert CIA operations team from western China after the latter has been captured by Uighur terrorists. The "Mission Impossible"-like rescue also involves a lot of shooting, bomb-making, and the defusing of a nuclear weapon. It's basically an action movie (with a lamentable lack of gratuitous sex).
The problem is that the characters are only sketchily drawn; they basically exist for their roles or skills. One might as well have called them "CIA Guy No. 1," "CIA Guy No. 2," "Delta Guy No. 1," etc. The guys in "The Dirty Dozen" had more personality. The politicos in Washington seem to have a little more depth, but that's at least in part because John Weisman seems to have adapted the personalities of some of our current officeholders for these roles. (President Forrest admittedly doesn't seem much like President Bush.) For some reason, there's a token female character, Tracy Wei-Liu, that's dragged through the story line, ostensibly to defuse the nuke. Perhaps the real reason is the short diversion in the latter part of the book in which the main character, Mike Ritzik, engages in a bit of repartee with her on the morality of killing in battle. But Ritzik just gets royally pissed off, and the subject is dropped. In the lead-up to the climax, the characters seem to get sidetracked into a few exchanges like this that, to me, seem unlikely when you're literally under the gun. I guess the author is trying to score a few political points amidst the fun.
I, for one, found the preparations for insertion more interesting and exciting than the actual engagement. The battle scenes just seemed a tad tedious after a while. However that may be, I'll look forward to future works by Mr. Weisman. If he can make the people as real as the technology, then he might make something really worthwhile.
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