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Summary: Hey Tom Clancy...move over!
Review: Hey Tom Clancy...move over! Hack has just written a first class novel on the "above board honesty" that permeates throughout Capitol Hill & the Pentagon...this ought to be required reading there...those fearless REMF's & staff-weenies who love every congressman's, general's, or admiral's golf slice they've ever seen will "certainly" want to read this book...they might see themselves ;-)
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Summary: The Price of Honor is a great story
Review: The Price of Honor is a great story that covers life as soldiers live it from a perspective that has been needed in this genre for quite a while. COL (R) Hackworth really lays it all out providing an exciting story of honor and duty while at the same time sending a message that all who read will be sure to identify with. This book and the messages it contain should be required reading for anyone in office or uniform.
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Summary: Not a good novel
Review: I really wnted to like this book. I enjoyed About Face tremendously, as well as Col. Hackworth's other nonfiction. But this is not a good novel. His writing is poor: "The smell of spilled scotch floated through the room like methane over a garbage dump." Who writes that stuff? No one this side of high school. His best writing is, of course, about the battles. The personalities, especially the women, are horrid. Colonel, stick with the nonfiction.
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Summary: The Price Of Honor=WOW!
Review: If you like lots of action and adventure, fast-paced plots and sub-plots,and interesting and well-developed characters, then The Price Of Honor -- Hackworth's first work of fiction -- should go to the top of your reading list. With a golden name and a platinum future, Army Special Forces Captain Sandy Caine was born to be a soldier. The latest in an eight-generation line of Caine men to serve Duty, Honor, Country, Sandy's character has been hammered out on an almost flawless anvil of military tradition. But one bad apple did fall from the Caine family tree. When he cracked under fire in Vietnam, Sandy's father, Alex, dishonored the long grey line. And ever since his Spartan childhood, Sandy can't help brooding about it. Little does Sandy know that the truth of what happened to his father has transformed into a 30-year legacy of deception perpetuated by the Beltway's most powerful players. Don't miss this book!
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Summary: Honor is a good read
Review: Colonel David Hackworth [Hack] has drawn from the experiences of his storied military background and juxtaposed them with his findings as a war reporter-national security critic to write his first novel. The story line develops around the budding career of a young Army captain who has all the right moves: West Point graduate, Airborne Infantry, Ranger, Green Berets. Sandy Caine is the latest scion in a long and distinguished family linkage to the Long, Gray Line. Distinguished, that is, with one exception. Sandy's father had died under mysterious and seemingly dishonorable circumstances in Vietnam [more about that later]. Sandy is like any loyal and dedicated soldier who embraces the Code of Duty, Honor, Country. He goes where the guns are sounding. Where they are sounding are God forsaken places like Somalia and Bosnia. Sandy quickly proves himself to be wise and capable beyond his years in a series of difficult situations. One during which, he makes contact with a seasoned warrior, Sergeant Major Dan Perkins, who had served with his father in Vietnam. Perkins says something to Sandy alluding to his father's valor under fire, but is killed before he can fill Sandy in. The plot then spins around sandy's quest for clarification of the truth about his father. Of course, Sandy has to have a love interest, and here he proves to be not so wise and capable. Perhaps, just a little naive. She's Abigail Mancini, a reporter for a Washington newspaper trying to make the big time with a hot story out of...seems like wherever Sandy happens to be. She gets under Sandy's skin and into his bed. Ultimately, of course, She gets involved with Sandy's search for the truth, finds that herein lies a real story and we're off to the races. Hack takes us through Somalia, then Bosnia, with intermittent trips back stateside to develop political intrigue and coverup of the facts surrounding the death of Sandy's father. Along the way, Hack editorializes, through Sandy's experiences, on the follies of US involvement in every corner of the world: how we screw up doing what we shouldn't be doing. As Yogi would say, its deja vu Vietnam all over again. Inept and or corrupt politicians charting the course. Gutless dilitante generals prosecuting the war. Careerism [a dirty word] in the military. Its Anton Myrers' Courtney Massingale types from Once an Eagle vs a young Sam Damon. But this time, the good guy wins...and he gets the girl. Hack needs to follow up on "Honor", promote young Sandy a few times, and take us with him up the line. There is something powerful the way Hack communicates, through fiction, the devastating impact, which is all too real, of our Government misadventures on people's lives. Besides, does Sandy really get to keep the girl?
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Summary: This Time The Ladies Share The Guts & Glory!
Review: Colonel Hackworth's had to mostly leave the ladies out of his previous non-fiction as that's the way war is; but they sure get to show their stuff this time. Abbie Mancini is tenacious, faithful, brave, smart, and focused -- as well as sensual. She shows that women can indeed deal with men as friends, compatriots, lovers, acquaintances, and aggressors. And she's got some great friends. Several male readers have already left clues to this adventure, but if you ladies rightfully felt left out of Hack's war stories up to now, try *Price of Honor*; he lets us participate in some of that "duty, honor, courage" this time!
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Summary: The Price of Honor
Review: I just finished The Price of Honor. It was truly a captivating and most enjoyable book. As a general rule, I don't particularly enjoy fiction; however, I read this book in one sitting. I chose it because I had enjoyed Hackworth's other books. I was not disappointed in the least. This book puts Hackworth in a class of military fiction writers like W.E.B. Griffin, P.T. Deutermann, and Nelson Demille.
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Summary: I am impressed
Review: He can write novels too! I think reviews are most effective if you compare the book in question to others that most of us have read, so prospective readers have something to measure it against. The Price of Honor could be best described as a novel of action, suspense, and intrigue--with the relentless pace and stunning power of thrillers like The Triumph and the Glory, the plot twists of Grisham at his best, a theme worthy of Clancy's Clear and Present Danger, and an authoritative style that reflects the vast personal military experience of the author.
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Summary: A breath of fresh air -- Excellent!
Review: COL David Hackworth possesses by self-mastery the knowledge of combat and leadership, and there is no one today who is more qualified to opine on the state of our military and the people, both civilian and military, who lead it. The PRICE OF HONOR is truly a fine work of fiction, action-packed and filled with passion that can only come from one of America's most decorated heroes. As a soldier and Infantryman, the PRICE OF HONOR serves as a stark reminder that the soldier who risks his life to support and defend our constitution and our way of life should be the top priority of our leadership. As someone who simply enjoys reading, the book is a fantastic story about soldiers and combat, politics and power, and one that kept me reading through the night and into the early morning hours. COL Hackworth is back, telling it like it is, but this time he uses a work of fiction as his vehicle of truth. Begin reading THE PRICE OF HONOR and you will not be able to set it down. You will find yourself like me, anxiously awaiting his next book.
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Summary: A WINNER FOR THE COLONEL, THAT SHOULD NOT BE MISSED !
Review: I wanted to buy this book when it first came out. But my luck was with me and I found it at the local library in the new arrival section; so I checked it out. I found this book to be a quick paced read, but not fast paced. I would say for an author who is a Colonel it was steady reading and I wanted to always get to the next chapter. The Colonel would alway try to leave a slight cliff-hanger at the end of each chapter. You do not have to be military man or woman to enjoy this book. You will love it. If people do not pick this book up, you will be sorry ! . SO GO OUT AND GET IT, DON' WAIT FOR THE PAPERBACK. THIS BOOK OF FICTION IS A GOOD BEGINING FOR THE COLONEL. I SALUTE YOU SIR, FOR A JOB WILL DONE!
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