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Act of War

By: Dale Brown
Narrated by: Larry Pressman
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 Near Houston, Texas, an oil refinery belonging to one of the world's largest multi-national energy companies is destroyed by a "backpack" nuclear device. This is just one of many attacks being perpetrated against this company around the world by a group whose mission is to stop global corporations and government organizations from plundering the world's natural resources in the name of profit.

Before this group strikes again, Jason Richter is called in with his top-secret high-tech military unit, code-named Task Force TALON. Richter believes there is only one strategy with which to snare his opponents: find, pursue, engage, and kill. And the only way to do this is to beat them at their own game: be unconventional, swift, and brutal enough to strike fear into the hearts of the most dedicated terrorist. Richter must also uncover a mole high-up within the government, who is in pursuit of his own personal revenge.

If Richter fails, it won't be just the lives of his team that are lost, but America itself.

©2005 Dale Brown (P)2005 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Action & Adventure Espionage Genre Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military Military Fiction Heartfelt War Government
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I have been an admiring reader of Dale Brown for a long time now. His books kept my walks, road trips and spare time exciting and entertaining. They would go on to inspire me to do similar stufg with writing. But now, I find myself going back to the old books I didn't get the chance to read earlier... Like this one

I can definitely see how this book managed to inspire a really good PC game and a sequel to both that and the book itself. Jason Richter is just a really cool, edgy protagonist with the maverick tendencies and skills of other Dale Brown heroes - like Patrick McLanahan, Admiral Hardcastle and Nick Flynn (oh yes, that's how up to date I am!) Jefferson is a good tough soldier, and Ariadna... Ooh, man. She is smartly written!

And of course, you gotta like the CID robots - which are a unique switch from the experimental warplanes in other Brown novels. But these robots make for really interesting what-if weapons of war. They would later go on to play big roles in other novels - most notably Shadow Command, Price of Duty and the ever-so-epic Moscow Offensive.


All in all, this book is an epic read and a great starting point for all the stuff that would come later. It should be remembered for helping breathe new life into stories by the best military adventure writer in the country!

A really good thriller!

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