The Price of Honor

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Summary: 5 stars for the Colonel!
Review: This is a very fast moving thriller, with a few surprising plot twists. Hack made the female reporter a strong and realistic partner, and not a clingy "love interest." Readers of ABOUT FACE will also enjoy the hero's nickname of "Hawk," and the action at Whitefish, Montana. I hope Hack's working on a sequel.

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Summary: A Warrior's Look at the Army --Past and Present
Review: Col. Hackworth has done a masterful job of describing today's soldiers as well as those of the Viet Nam era. His novel is a true page turner and his attention to detail is magnificent--not too much, not too little. If you read DeMille or Clancy and especially if you're a Viet Nam veteran {I am--1ST CAV) this is a must. I hope that there are more to follow.

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Summary: Battle Scarred and Rhetoric Weary
Review: Colonel David Hackworth has been there. Vietnam, Korea, etc. Because of the knowledge he has endured, if you will, his first fiction novel, The Price of Honor has an electricity to it that is all enveloping. The details are sharply defined. The issues, both from a military standpoint and a personal standpoint stand in sharp focus. There is no sparing of the language, the blood and emotion. The gritty realism, tempered with liberal editorializing on the plight of the Armed Forces is a revelation for those who just get their news from CNN. I know, it's fiction, but it is often only through fiction that the truth can truly be uttered, even though it may be said with sadness. And just to keep us in the emotional loop a bit longer, the develping relationship between Sandy and Abbie has sparks of its own. A great cast of characters, well fleshed out. A bit of humor, a bit of technology, clandestine operations, political skeletons, lust for power, lust for it's own sake, unsparing combat realism, and just enough mushy stuff to keep me riveted. With the book's generous length, I really felt I acquired more than a passing fancy or momentary hatred for the characters. I got into it, I got involved. I'm glad I did.

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Summary: Women
Review: No Green Beret would talk to his main squeez, girl firend, or wife the way Sandy talks to Abbie. We have more respect for womanhood to use such obscene language in their presence. We keep barracks talk in the barracks.

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Summary: Hack shows us how the military works
Review: The Price Of Honor is a great book. Not only for the action scenes, but for the insight into how the military bureaucracy works, and how it reacts when it is confronted with failure. Especially insightful is the description of the absolutely corrupt military procurement system. If the American Public doesn't wake up to what is happening soon, we will have a military full of gear, but empty of people.

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Summary: NEVER WAS NEVER WILL BE
Review: Col Hackworth never served in Special Forces or Special Operations, he constantly hangs around them (i.e. Somilia) and quotes them as if they are best buddies. He has no business writing about SF & SOF, He was caught with an outright fabrication (Ranger Tab) by the US Army Ranger Association and than tap danced out of the area when caught. He is one of the higest decorated BN Cmdr for valor in the VN war, in fact more combat decorations than most Inf Platoon Leaders, he does that well.

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Summary: Hack Tops Clancy and Griffin!
Review: Col. David Hackworth has entered the world of fiction with one fine piece of work. His first attempt smacks of "been there and done that" in a style not unlike Clancy of Griffin but with a gut feeling reality that brings back emotions once past. The entire book was a page turner and the last half was a nonstop joy ride. Well done Hack, I highly recommend this novel.

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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This is a great novel. It starts off in one of the biggest dungheaps the army can send anyone, Somolia, and follows a SF captain who's family are army legends. Cpt Sandy Caine's father, Alex, died in Nam under shameful circumstances. Or so the family thinks. Soon it appears there was a coverup, and that Alex wasn't the coward the Caines had thought for thirty years. Sandy Caine tries to find out, and every time he thinks he knows, everything changes. I highly recommend this book to any one who likes military novels,loves mysteries, and just plain enjoys great reading.

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Summary: From the man who's been there, outstanding.
Review: Col Hackworth has been there and seen it all in the years he's been soldiering, both in and out of uniform. It shows. The books accuracy and drive come straight from that source. You can bet, that if it's in this book, chances are it happened for real, somewhere, sometime. On the mark indictment of the powers who abuse the system.

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Summary: Great novel.
Review: Price of Honor is an excellent novel. The pace is exciting, and the military and political story-telling abilities of Col. Hackworth are excellent. On military matters of software, hardware, and honor, the author's narrative is particularly rich. To my pleasant surprise, however, the love and romance scenes are pretty good, too. They aren't just thrown in, and abruptly written, as can happen when the author's heart is clearly on gadgetry or war or mystery.