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Summary: A well told, well researched and fast paced thrill ride!
Review: Drug dealers are using force to put themselves up against the US authorities in a brilliant yarn often similar to Tom Clancy's CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER and Stephen Coonts's UNDER SIEGE. It's up to Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle, who sets up the Border Security Force, armed with an assortment of high-tech weaponry, to stop them. The drug barons' arms suply provides a good degree of competition too! Mercenary fighter pilots, anti-ship missles, man-portable missile launchers all bought from Argentina after the Falklands War and ex-Cuban MiGs! The pace is like any othe Dale Brown book - fast, furious and relentless, the action never stops and everything technical is well explained. Another winner!
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Summary: An excellent book!!!
Review: I think this was another of Dale Brown's great books! This book is packed with action, excitment, and a great plot. Hammerheadsw is a wonderful Tecno-thriller a perfect sequel to the Flight of the Old Dog!! Dale Brown has done it again!!
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Summary: Another winner from Brown
Review: In his best tale yet, the techno thriller author supreme posits a new supergroup of agents brought together to foil the drug trade. Operating from off shore platforms the Hammerheads use the latest in technology to battle smugglers and cartels. When they go up against a Cuban backed drug lord, they find he has the ability to fight back. Excellent adventure, fast moving and entertaining. Brown outshines the competition in this adventure.
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Summary: Another winner from Brown
Review: In his best tale yet, the techno thriller author supreme posits a new supergroup of agents brought together to foil the drug trade. Operating from off shore platforms the Hammerheads use the latest in technology to battle smugglers and cartels. When they go up against a Cuban backed drug lord, they find he has the ability to fight back. Excellent adventure, fast moving and entertaining. Brown outshines the competition in this adventure.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: It is simply the best Dale Brown book. A perfect balance between sci-techno and real life - a balance so often lost by many techo-writers Dale himself including.
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Summary: Excellent "What-If" Story
Review: My favorite of Brown's books, this story brings back all of the usual characters in a different setting. The one drawback is too much emphasis on the V-22, portraying it as the only option.
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Summary: Sensational
Review: Probably the best book I have read, I litrally could not put it down! I had nearly no sleep for the 3 days it took me to read it.
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Summary: Too simplistic...
Review: The first book I read from Dale Brown, and I must say I am unimpressed. My foremost problem are the characters are given slight history but mostly glossed over for never ending episodes of action and skirmishes. There's not one character that truly stand out to like or hate. The family problems of the main character, Ian Hardcastle, is poorly developed, especially considering that his son is also using drugs.I sometimes think that this is Dale Brown just wrote this to cash in on the success of Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. The solution of blockading Florida alone is still rather simplistic in my opinion. Certainly it will deal a major blow to South American cartels initially. I'm already thinking the Yakuzas and Triads might take over importing of drugs.
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Summary: Too simplistic...
Review: The first book I read from Dale Brown, and I must say I am unimpressed. My foremost problem are the characters are given slight history but mostly glossed over for never ending episodes of action and skirmishes. There's not one character that truly stand out to like or hate. The family problems of the main character, Ian Hardcastle, is poorly developed, especially considering that his son is also using drugs. I sometimes think that this is Dale Brown just wrote this to cash in on the success of Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. The solution of blockading Florida alone is still rather simplistic in my opinion. Certainly it will deal a major blow to South American cartels initially. I'm already thinking the Yakuzas and Triads might take over importing of drugs.
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Summary: Not Dale Brown's Best, But Stil.....
Review: This Dale Brown novel definetly wasn't his best, and at times even unrealistic (C'mon, renegade drug dealers with F-5 fighters and antiship missiles?). Still it provided some interesting insights into the V-22 Osprey aircraft/helicopter hybrid, which also appears in subsequent Dale Brown books, and it introduces us to the eccentric (and likable) protagonist U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle, who will reappear in Brown's eighth novel, Storming Heaven. The action was pretty good, but still I wouldn't recommend this D.B. novel over his others like Day of the Cheetah or Night of the Hawk.
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