![]() ![]() ![]() Paperback rights to Pocket Books Literary Guild dual main selection Military Book Club main selection major ad/promo. It is interesting and well written a fast moving plot with accurate facts. Coyle's prose is often clumsy, the chapter-head quotes (from Napoleon, Sherman et al.) are as pertinent as fortune cookies and the ending manages to be sentimental and ungrammatical at the same time. The book is a 1988 novel so predates modern political and geopolitical situations. And confusion arrives with the authentic alphabet soup: lots of info about MRRs, RDEs, BDUs, etc. Publication date 1988 Topics United States. Interest is not sustained by the book's undeniable authenticity, which has all the style of a training manual. But all the characters are paper-thin and all sound equally earnest and boring. The narrative consists mainly of set pieces on back-and-forth desert fighting, flashing from one side to another and featuring some continuing characters. There is a little suspense about whether Iran, fighting both ``satans,'' will detonate an atomic bomb, and somewhat less about whether the U.S.S.R. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. ``places its trust in the ability of the individual soldier and his leaders.'' We are not surprised, therefore, when his thriller picks the winner of a two-month war between the superpowers in Iran. Army officer Coyle ( Team Yankee ) says that the Red Army treasures ``conformity and discipline'' while the U.S. ![]()
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