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Title: Flash Point by James Huston ISBN: 0-380-73282-3 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.04 (26 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Almost a really good book
Comment: I enjoyed James Huston's first two efforts and had high hopes for his third novel. I am "into planes" as joegstein mentions, but I didn't find the fighter plane information was what cost this book two more stars. It seemed to me that the author couldn't figure out who he wanted to make the central character of the book as the story wandered back and forth between the aircraft carrier, George Washington and the CIA in Langley, VA. He also couldn't seem to decide exactly who the good and bad guys were and kept positing alternate theories through his characters. I suppose the ending of the story attempts to settle that question, but it does so in a fairly casual and undramatic fashion. I enjoyed the read until I got to the end and wondered why he chose to stop there. There were things left to be sorted out and to the extent he tried, I was disappointed. As I said at the outset, this was almost a really good book. Huston can write. He just needed to give this one a bit more thought.
Rating: 5
Summary: Huston in his element
Comment: Finally in his third book, Huston has hit gold. Being a former F-14 pilot, he is at home in the cockpit, and it shows in the air combat sequences that are well spaced throughout this novel. He also makes the reader feel a part of an F-14 squadron with his knowledge of daily life on board a carrier. The detail with which he illustrates his characters and the experiences of a naval aviator has the intimacy that only someone who has been a member of such a close group of fighting men could express.
In total, this third novel has all the best parts of a thriller, the plausable action, the characters, and the suspensful plot, and I would recommend it to any technothriller fan, especially a reader of Stephen Coonts.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beats Clancy
Comment: The Washington Post said "If you like Tom Clancy, Huston is good step up" which I think is right on. Flash Point is all about aircraft carriers and F-14 Tomcats. Unlike Clancy, Huston is a Top Gun graduate and the book reeks with authenticity.
But the eerie thing about this book, which was published in 2000, is the depiction of terrorist groups and all the difficulties a conventional military and cold war strategic thinking has in dealing with the new terrorist situation. Huston has obviously done a lot of thinking about this and has some really interesting ideas.
Like Clancy's characters, Huston's spend a lot of time worrying about whether they are doing the right thing, but in Huston's case, it is much more realistic and plausible for reasons that I can't disclose here without giving away the plot.
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Title: The Price of Power by James Huston ISBN: 0380731606 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Fallout by James Huston ISBN: 0380732831 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Balance of Power : A Novel by James Huston ISBN: 0380731592 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Shadows of Power by James W. Huston ISBN: 0060008369 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Secret Justice : A Novel by James W. Huston ISBN: 0060008377 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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