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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780312985219
ISBN number: 0312985215
Label: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: May 16, 2004
Publishing house: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Release Date: May 04, 2004
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Dr. James Kegan, a world-renowned scientist specializing in germ warfare, has vanished from his upstate New York home. But this is no ordinary missing-persons case. Kegan has left behind an unidentified dead man with a .22 caliber hole in his skull-and a contact trail that leads to an alleged terrorist cell.
Unraveling the mystery is a job for Kegan's best friend, NSA operative Charlie Dean. His mission is to infiltrate the scientist's circle of associates and decipher Kegan's confidential research. Dispatched to cover Charlie is Delta Force trooper Lia Francesca. The trail leads them to the core of a widespread killer fever that's been dormant for centuries-and its link to a virus that's quickly spreading victim by victim. With time running out Charlie and Lia must find Kegan, uncover his secrets, cut a terrorist threat to the quick, and stop the unimaginable outbreak of a new biological nightmare.
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I have enjoyed Coonts in the past, but this book was really bad.
It was dull. The main character was not interesting, but worse- he was only marginally competent. Now I learn there is a series of books with him as the lead. Why? He is not tough. He is not particularly resourceful. I don't care about him at all. I found myself skipping page after page, Finally at page 225 I punted.
I wish I had read the reviews first.
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I rather enjoyed this book, but perhaps this is because I listened to the abridged version. In this version, some of the transitions are rather confusing, but I could still follow along just fine, and it did not spoil my enjoyment of the story.
If you want realism, this is not a book for you. However, if you want a fun, suspenseful, story with cool gadgets, worldly themes, interesting characters, and a lot of action, then I would recommend this abridged version.
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Everybody CALM DOWN!!! Who cares if this book was ghost written, or why and how Coonts developed the story? If you like fast, furious action, with plenty of plot twists and turns, then read it. It's almost like watching an action movie--you DON'T always know exactly what's going on every second, but that's the beauty--you eventually find out through the action sequences. RELAX!!
Anyway, if you like this sort of thing--simple, yet action-filled, you will enjoy this book. Sometimes you just need comic-book stuff like this. Go for it!!
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Steven Coonts writes a highly improbable story about an American covert team (Deep Black) from the National Security Agency gathering data on a new Russian weapon. They fly around in an armed plane and have various firefights - is the Russian military not going to respond in force? If you can skip over the likelihood that this is even remotely possible then you will enjoy the book. This is a suspense thriller and the author says all of the technology exists or is being developed. It is how it deployed that one questions. However, if you're looking for something for a plane ride or you're a Stephen Coonts' fan then you will enjoy the book.
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You'll probably think I need to get out more, but this was my very first Coonts book. I wanted to start at the beginning of a series with hopes for the future.
There are three sets of players in this story...the Wash D.C. NSA headquarters team, a field team in Russia and the star of the story..surveilance and weapons technologies. It gets tedious as Coonts' technological descriptions get more detailed to make the reader believe the more outlandish. If you're a Clancy fan, you will obviously love this sort of thing.
The characters themselves are an odd mix of flawed people that didn't quite gel for me. Even at the end of the book, I wasn't sure of most of their motives.
There are events on the Washington end that are but soapy suds, and have no bearing on the outcome of the story. This type of thing distracts from the real action happening. I found this filler, along with the necessity to keep language on a vulgar level less than appealing.
There is also an underlying animosity between NSA and CIA at a political level. While this may be possible, it is disconcerting to think that our elite intelligence agencies can't cooperate at the topmost levels, and must instead engage in childish competitiveness rather than fully cooperating to serve American security interests.
The most unbelievable aspect of this tale is the ease with which the American field team trots all over Siberia and Moscow, disrupting the Russian way of life with the full cooperation of every Russian they meet. Apparently Coonts thinks that the average Russian wouldn't have a problem with Americans running around in helicopters and other assorted commandeered vehicles, brandishing weapons, driving up to gates of highly secure military bases and so on, and along the way stopping at the local hotels for a few ZZZs and a bite to eat. Huh?
I won't bother with the rest of this series.
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