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Title: Mission Compromised by Oliver L. North, Joe Musser ISBN: 0-06-055584-X Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.98 (85 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You won't put it down
Comment: Oliver North's first venture into fiction is a tremendous success. I'm a stickler for detail in action/thrillers, and Colonel North truly delivers. The blending of fact and fiction, real people with fictional characters, makes this a frighteningly realistic story. The prior Administration failed in a lot of ways while "fighting" terrorism, putting politics over results - and our servicemen and women - and Colonel North picks up on those failures, creating almost an expose of how the war on terror was "fought" before 9-11. Along with the nonfiction works, "Ghost Wars" and "Losing bin Laden," "Mission Compromised" is a must read. I can't put down the sequel, "The Jericho Sanction," either.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Work of Military Suspense
Comment: I just finished LtCol North's book, and found it to be both a "page turner" and a quick read for a book of some 600 pages. The basic storyline is straightforward enough; a "good guy" Marine and his ultra-secret special operations unit are misled and ultimately betrayed by their superiors, one entranced with the "New World Order," and one out for his own profit. There are plenty of twists and turns, however, and suspense builds steadily throughout the last half of the book. This is written from a conservative viewpoint, and the developing Christian faith of the protagonist and his wife, and the faith of those who help them, become fairly important to the plot development. The basic story, however, is strong enough that it should overcome any dislike these factors might engender in liberal readers. In any event, the book is generally well-written, and certainly grabs and keeps your attention as the events begin to accelerate. This is definitely a book that, once started, is hard to put down until finished.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wickedly Scary...........
Comment: The scary part of this novel is not being able to tell fiction from truth. My first accessment of the book was a Christian Fiction novel, based on military practices and policies and functions. Throw in Oliver North, a true hero, both writing and appearing in the novel, and your mind can really play tricks on you, telling you that some of the things you are reading are not all that "fictional".
The Christianity and sound gospel doctrine in this book added a nice warmth to the story. I enjoy good novels with well-written doctrine intrinsic to the theme of the story and while this story would have been nice without it, it would not have been the same, nor would this novel be as popular, in my opinion.
My vote if for this book to turn into a series, going beyond the boundaries of "trilogy" that so many writers seem to halt at these days. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I will be both reading The Jericho Sanction and recommending this book to my friends!
Mr North, Thank you for the fascinating, too-close-for-comfort, tale!
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Title: The Jericho Sanction: A Novel by Oliver North, Joe Musser ISBN: 0805425519 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Under Fire: An American Story by Oliver L. North, William Novak ISBN: 0971700915 Publisher: 21st Century Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Last Days by Joel C. Rosenberg ISBN: 0765309289 Publisher: Forge Books Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Last Jihad by Joel C. Rosenberg ISBN: 0765346435 Publisher: Forge Books Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Greater Freedom: Stories of Faith from Operation Iraqi Freedom by Oliver North, Sara Horn ISBN: 0805431535 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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