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Summary: You Can't Put It Down!
Review: Ollie North and Joe Musser have crafted a powerful, fast-paced narrative in "Mission Compromised". It's a real page-turner that far outshines many other novels, and features a style that rises above most best-selling faith-based books. The mixture of well-researched detail about the inner-workings of government and its "what if's" makes this fascinating, fun and often very sobering reading. You won't absorb the daily news in the same way after enjoying this book!
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Summary: Tom Clancy Move Over!
Review: As a lover of high-tech, para-military fiction, I was facinated to read what Oliver North has written, or was that "has lived"? Not only was this a "great beach read" featuring a finely woven plot around current political happenings in the White House, United Nations and the Middle East, but it left me with a very strange sense that this scenario was way too real! After all, Oliver North has lived more clandestine situations than any of us, including Tom Clancy, could ever dream about!
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Summary: "Thrilling"
Review: "Mission Compromised: A Novel," by Oliver North, Joe Musser (Contributor) is a nonstop, action adventure, about a Marine on a 'Mission' of a lifetime.(A clever, well-written thriller about terrorism that I found very exciting.) John Savoy
Savoy International
Motion Pictures Inc.
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Summary: Wonderful poli/spy thriller, highly recommended
Review: Oliver North ventures into the realm of fiction, and emerges victorious with this carefully crafted story. His "insider" knowledge of the White House and the military make for a wonderful, Clancy-esque story ripe with details and full of surprises. MUST READ!!
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Summary: Wickedly Scary...........
Review: The scary part of this novel is not being able to tell fiction from truth. My first accessment of the book was a Christian Fiction novel, based on military practices and policies and functions. Throw in Oliver North, a true hero, both writing and appearing in the novel, and your mind can really play tricks on you, telling you that some of the things you are reading are not all that "fictional". The Christianity and sound gospel doctrine in this book added a nice warmth to the story. I enjoy good novels with well-written doctrine intrinsic to the theme of the story and while this story would have been nice without it, it would not have been the same, nor would this novel be as popular, in my opinion. My vote if for this book to turn into a series, going beyond the boundaries of "trilogy" that so many writers seem to halt at these days. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I will be both reading The Jericho Sanction and recommending this book to my friends! Mr North, Thank you for the fascinating, too-close-for-comfort, tale!
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Summary: Excellent Work of Military Suspense
Review: I just finished LtCol North's book, and found it to be both a "page turner" and a quick read for a book of some 600 pages. The basic storyline is straightforward enough; a "good guy" Marine and his ultra-secret special operations unit are misled and ultimately betrayed by their superiors, one entranced with the "New World Order," and one out for his own profit. There are plenty of twists and turns, however, and suspense builds steadily throughout the last half of the book. This is written from a conservative viewpoint, and the developing Christian faith of the protagonist and his wife, and the faith of those who help them, become fairly important to the plot development. The basic story, however, is strong enough that it should overcome any dislike these factors might engender in liberal readers. In any event, the book is generally well-written, and certainly grabs and keeps your attention as the events begin to accelerate. This is definitely a book that, once started, is hard to put down until finished.
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Summary: Good ending? Bad ending? Great ending? Awful ending?
Review: Fantastic book! As I approached the end of the book, however, I was EXTREMELY disappointed in the ending. That changed, however, as I figured out what the author was doing. (Hint: when you read the book, do NOT skip the epilogue; specifically, the next-to-last sentence.) North and his co-author are fantastic story-tellers.
North writes this book from a Christian perspective, which is a breath of fresh air from this type of novel. Several subplots tie themselves in together as the story winds up.
I've read several other books of war-fiction, and this was by far the best. I'm looking forward to the sequel.
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Summary: A refreshing read!
Review: I enjoyed many things about this book, the development of characters, the story line and especially the lack of profanity. I thought North got his points across very well, without 4 letter words, and this was refreshing. I did have to remind myself that it was a work of fiction; however, so much was based on real life that I had a bit of trouble sorting events out.
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Summary: A Bit Uneven - But Worthwhile
Review: After ordering The Jericho Sanction, I figured I had better read this book first as it is the lead novel in a planned trilogy. I am currently reading the 2nd book and can report that it is much more smoothly written than the first, but that reading the first was helpful. Oliver North certainly knows from first hand experience the perspective that Major Peter Newman, USMC brings to his job at the National Security Council, because Newman is the first person to hold the position that North used to have since the Iran-Conta dust up. Newman is put in charge of a covert UN force who are authorised to bring to justice international lawbreakers. His immediate superior, the president's NSA as a deceitful SOB who is in league with a former Russian KGB agent and general who is now a Deputy Secretary General at the UN. He is also involved with selling nuclear weapons to Iraq, among other things, and it is the Iraq factor that leads to the deliberate sabotaging of Newman's mission to Iraq, by both of Newman's supervisors.
The timing of the novel is set during Clinton administration and if you are a fan of that group, this story will go down with some difficulty for you as there is little to be proud of in the way the US government conducts itself. The claim that Sandy Berger was stuffing classified documents into his pants in order to remove them from the National Archieves is child's play, compared to the activities of the NSA in this novel. There is, as others have noted, a heavy dose of Christian evangalisim in parts of the book. It is part of the plotline and gives the rationale for some of the actions that take place. It could have been done with a lighter hand, but I did not find it offensive or distracting. All in all, I was glad I read it as necessary homework for the books that follow. You get the names of the players and the background for the story's framework. There is a bit of the Tom Clancy urge to overdescribe some aspects of things that don't really advance the story.
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Summary: Wickedly Scary...........
Review: The scary part of this novel is not being able to tell fiction from truth. My first accessment of the book was a Christian Fiction novel, based on military practices and policies and functions. Throw in Oliver North, a true hero, both writing and appearing in the novel, and your mind can really play tricks on you, telling you that some of the things you are reading are not all that "fictional". The Christianity and sound gospel doctrine in this book added a nice warmth to the story. I enjoy good novels with well-written doctrine intrinsic to the theme of the story and while this story would have been nice without it, it would not have been the same, nor would this novel be as popular, in my opinion. My vote if for this book to turn into a series, going beyond the boundaries of "trilogy" that so many writers seem to halt at these days. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I will be both reading The Jericho Sanction and recommending this book to my friends! Mr North, Thank you for the fascinating, too-close-for-comfort, tale!
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