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Title: A Different War: A Mitchell Grant Adventure by Craig Thomas, Stephen Thorne ISBN: 0-7540-0075-3 Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Pub. Date: January, 1998 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 12 List Price(USD): $94.95

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Summary: Gant is back ?
Comment: Mitchel Gant, the harried but heroic aviator of Craig Thomas' cold war techno-thrillers "Firefox" "Firefox Down!" and "Winterhawk" is back. While Gant, like the technothriller genre, seem out-of-place in the 1990's, author Craig Thomas knows well enough not to try stretching outdated ideas. Where once he faced sinister Russians and high-tech fighter planes, Gant is now on the run from Aero UK, a consortium of evil MBA's who succeed by literally crashing the competition. No longer with the CIA, Gant now investigates crashes for the FAA, poring over the ruins of airliners nowhere near as exotic as the Firefox. While investigating the crash of an Aero UK competitor, Gant is pulled into a web of corporate deceit not unlike the power-plays of the cold war, and easily as deadly. With billions at stake, Aero UK will stop at nothing to prevent Gant from revealing its role in the saboutage. Though corporations replace the KGB and the Vance 494 airliner seems a far cry from the MiG-31, Thomas pulls it off, producing a gripping novel, with his trademark prose, terse and fast paced lines written as if the author was in the middle of Tae Bo. Thomas' detailing of Gant's first flight in the Vance jet conveys the gravity and fluidity of flight in ways no author-pilot has been willing or able to approach. Still, "War" is not quite up to the earlier Thomas epics. Its fast pace only highlights how slim a book it is and Thomas doesn't give "War" the wide scope of say "Winterhawk". There is no superweapon slowly bearing down on millions, no seemingly unreachable border, nothing to really convey tension. And there isn't enough of Gant. The nominal hero, Gant is only one of several players, one whom Thomas seems almost reluctant to bring out. "A Different War" is only one of Thomas' latest attempts to say goodbye to the kinds of books he wrote in the 1980's. I just wish he wasn't so eager to do so.