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Title: With Hostile Intent by Robert Gandt ISBN: 0-451-20486-7 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.91 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ACTION PACKED!
Comment: With the ease of a former fighter pilot and the style of a Hemmingway, Gandt takes his readers into the cockpit, across the forbidden land and, yes, even into the bedroom of the brave men and women who patrol the 33rd parallel.
The book captures the very soul of aerial combat and is an absorbing read for anyone who treasures the excitement of aviation.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Smart and Timely Novel That You Cannot Put Down
Comment: Let me start by saying that my brother has been trying to spoon feed me Tom Clancy books for years and I have made it through only 2 earlier works, Clear and Present Danger and Patriot Games, without bogging down in Clancy's ridiculously long passages of technical jargon. Robert Gandt's With Hostile Intent, on the other hand, strikes a satisfying balance between military expertise and technology, geo- and sexual-politics, character development, and most importantly STORY, that sets it apart from Mr. Clancy's Encylopedias. It says something that I read this book cover to cover in one day. This is not to insinuate that Gandt's action-packed novel of aerial combat, and the people and politics that propell its narrative, is lacking in technical and military reality. There are hair-raising moments which show us in detail the technical challeneges of landing a fighter plane on an aircraft carrier. Equally so the considerations pilots make when matching their combat skills to the myriad of hardware they engage. But it is refreshing to learn more about the lives and emotions of the pilots in today's Navy than, say, the electrical wiring of the instrument panels they face. The cast of characters, male and female, American and Iraqi, from the Navy's top fighter pilots to the LSOs that babysit them, are painted with fairness and empathy. I also liked some of the more subtle elements of the book: that we do not immediately know the good guy from the bad guy; that the journalists leftover from the Gulf War are still swaggering around Baghdad causing trouble; and the way Saddam's volcanic temper and viscious rule still resonate through his ranks. A great first book (in a series?) that sets up a hero for more adventures to come. Should be a solid read for any fan of military fiction-- it certainly created a fan of this impatient civilian who normally whets his appetite for a good read among the King and Koontzs, the Bukowskis and Chabons, of the world.
Rating: 4
Summary: A quick, easy to understand story
Comment: Gandt starts his fiction career wonderfully. He takes his first hand knowledge of life for F/A-18 pilots, tactics and naval life in general and composes a great story with several subplots that allow for the story of Brick Maxwell to continue in future volumes.
Keeping it simple, the main character, Maxwell, returns to a carrier squadron after several years test piloting and as a NASA astronaut. He must deal with a hot-shot commanding officer with something bordering personal hatred for him, gender politics of the new Navy, and an Iraqi threat following the first Gulf War. Gandt neverloses focus despite having so much to contemplate.
If you like this one, try Punk's War and Punk's Wing by Ward Carroll for similar life and battle stories in the Navy.
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Title: Black Star by Robert Gandt ISBN: 0451210662 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Liberia (Joint Task Force, Book 1) by David E. Meadows ISBN: 0425192067 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Terminal Run by Michael Dimercurio ISBN: 0451410467 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Joint Task Force America (#2) by David E. Meadows ISBN: 0425194825 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Cobra (Sixth Fleet, 4) by David E. Meadows ISBN: 0425185184 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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