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From the author of the critically acclaimed Admiral Morgan series comes a topical, provocative, military thriller that marks the start of a brand-new series starring Navy SEAL Mack Bedford.
Near the start of this straightforward action thriller from bestseller Robinson (Ghost Force), insurgents fire internationally banned Diamondhead missiles at a tank convoy in central Iraq led by Navy SEAL Lt. Cdr. Mackenzie Bedford, incinerating a number of Mack's men in their tanks. In retaliation, Mack guns down the dozen Arabs who fired the missiles as they attempt a fake surrender, for which he's drummed out of the navy. Back home, Mack's son, Tommy, is suffering from a rare disease that can only be cured by an operation costing $1 million. Mack agrees to help assassinate right-wing politician Henri Foche, a major shareholder in the French manufacturer of the Diamondhead, to earn that $1 million. Foche, who's running for the presidency of France, promises policies that will ruin the shipbuilding livelihood of Mack's Maine community if he wins the election. Despite the opposition, Mack marches implacably and sometimes implausibly on to his foregone triumph. (May)
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Ronald Harrison
reviewed Diamondhead on March 20, 2013
Diamondhead
Really, really bad. Does this author have any concept of the military? Almost none of it was accurate. You don't retire with benefits at 13 years. Tanks don't carry passengers, and if they did, SEALs would not use them for insertions (tanks are not too stealthy). The protagonist's "amazing" sniper shots are done by soldiers every day at the rifle range, and his huge death-defying leap into the water is done by every sailor at boot camp.
This mistakes are rampant, and the implausibilities just keep on coming. Even the core problem with the French missile is that it burns. Well, almost all anti0tank weapons burn. That is how they work.
The protagonist is a thug, not the hero the authors tries to paint him to be. And even if I am a conservative, the right-wing rants were so pervasive and continual that I was turned away.
This was just a bad, bad book.
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