Book Overview
America is held hostage...in this timely and powerful new novel written by an experienced Naval officer.A group of armed insurgents have taken control of Cuba. They've shot down an American civilian aircraft, and are holding a U.S. Marine pilot hostage. Now, Admiral Tombstone Magruder is forced to lead his Carrier Battle Group into a reckless counterattack planned by overzealous politicians. This time, he's trapped -- between the violent excesses of Cuban revolutionaries...and a U.S. power play that's spun wildly out of control.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0425163458
ISBN13:9780425163450
Release Date:March 1998
Publisher:Berkley Publishing Group
Length:358 Pages
Weight:0.42 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Very Good, But not Clancy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Book was better than previous books by Douglass that I have read. Being a life member of the United States Naval Institute I have some knowledge of the proposed "Arsenal Ship" that the author used. He also used a plot ploy of "Micro-management" & "target selection" from the White House, which being a ARMY Special Forces Veteran from the Viet Nam War I am very familiar with (Johnson & then Nixon chose individual targets & "managed" the war themselves. All and all, a great entertaining adventure, but different from Clancy, which it is inevitably compared with. Definitly worth the price of "admission"
U.S. Navy takes on all enemies; foreign and domestic.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This latest part of the "Carrier" series, is one of Douglass's best to date. The Carrier battle group is literally placed in the same position as our Vietnam era forces, with the enemy (Cuban revolutionaries) on one front,and meddling, micro-managing U.S. politicians on the other. Give Douglass his due...the man knows how the military functions, and how it can respond in times of national emergencies. You feel as if you are on the deck of the Carrier Thomas Jefferson, or in the cockpit of an F-18 Hornet. You won't want to put it down!
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