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Summary: Action
Review: A very good thriller that will keep you turning the pages and looking for the next work by this author.
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Summary: Definite Homerun!!
Review: After reading the first page, I felt compelled to keep going. No other author has been as realistic and "on the money" with their cop and military characters than Marcus Wynne. He definitely hit a homerun with this book and I'll be looking for more books in the future. "No Other Option" has enough twists and turns to keep the reader glued to the book, wondering what's going to happen next. Nothing predictable and an ending to remember!!
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Summary: Blah, Blah, Blah!
Review: Although Mr. Wynne's bonafides are certifiable he has little creativity. You do not have to read this book to even know what will happen. Just read the synopsis Amazon gives for the book. Mr. Wynne needs to use something other than bad/good guy, an extremely gorgeous woman (who is in a profession where there are very few pretty woman), some simplistic action to make the book longer than it should, and of course the ending where the good guy wins but just barely scenario. The action was accurate but mainly written for wannabe heroes reading it.
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Summary: Response to a Reader in South America
Review: As a former "partner" of Marcus, I would like to say that he is a very talented, honest individual. To " A Reader In South America," I would offer a different perspective of females in law enforcement. If there are so few that are attractive, why is it so typical that their partners feel a need to either protect them or engage in other activities with them, most often both? Other females in law enforcement, please read this book. It is well written and gives us the credibility that we deserve.Great job, Marcus.
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Summary: lots of thunder but either got no rain or just drizzle
Review: at first look, it's quite promising to me that an interesting hero, dale miller, is in the making. but gradually, the whole storyline just lost its edge and turned into a mediocre so-so thriller. miller became a not so cool dude albeit shallow and stubborn. i just don't like the #1 reviewer's spoiler and her praises almost to every book she reviewed. maybe she's hired and paid by most of all the publishers (even suspiciously by amazon.com too?) to market all the new books they published for more sales and therefore always giving good reviews to every book she reviewed. in the meantime, blahblahblah out the storyline, the plot as well as the ending of every book, and killed all the fun of other readers' personal reading experience. i just hate those viewers who compulsively ripped open the whole book's details and ruined other people's reading process.
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Summary: Smell the Cordite, Feel the Muzzle Blasts....
Review: I don't read much fiction - mostly I only spend my time with non-fiction military history. So trust me when I tell you this thriller is a first-class great read. I was fortunate to get an advance copy of Marcus Wynne's No Other Option. What a great book. This is a page-turner of a novel, packed with realistic up-close and personal gunplay and urban combat, high body counts, and exploding cop cars. If I didn't already know the author personally I'd be completely blown away and wondering where this guy has been hiding...
Wynne's story is about a spec ops NCO who "goes off the reservation" and is incarcerated in federal prison. Schooled in the art of military mayhem as a trained killer, Jonny Maxwell, the villain, was once a high-speed, low-drag special operations soldier. Unfortunately, Maxwell had one serious flaw: he was an insane serial rapist who liked to listen to tape recordings of his crimes while on his military missions. Here, Wynne has created a real scumbag of a bad guy a seriously formidable individual. Some one you want to blow away yourself. Jonny escapes from Leavenworth with the intention to wreak as much havoc as possible and make a major "score" on his way out of the country. In his wake is a bloody trail of mayhem and carnage. Tops on his list for revenge is his old friend and protégé, Dale Miller, who testified against him. Miller is sent by his commander in Special Operations Command to assist the Federal Marshals in hunting Maxwell down - and if necessary, exterminating him with extreme prejudice. Miller wants to capture Maxwell and return him to prison, but you just know that ain't gonna happen. He embarks on this mission with his trusty MP-5 submachine gun and a bag of tricks. He links up with some cops who are mistrustful and to keep things steamy, a Twin Cities homicide detective named Nina Capushek. Nina is a tough, capable female who, like Miller, thrives on danger, adrenaline, and a life on the edge. They deal will several cops and Federal Marshals, who view Miller as an adversary and someone to mistrust. Further complicating matters for Miller is another "operator" sent shadow Miller and to kill Maxwell if Miller can't do the job.
No Other Option is a standout amongst thrillers. Written by an "operator" it brings a taunt, action-packed story from the shadowy world of covert operations into the bright light of federal law enforcement. It's so technically accurate and realistic the cordite will sting your eyes and the muzzle blasts will make you flinch. I read this book in one sitting. It has garnered recommendations from Stephen Coonts, David Morrell, and John "Lofty" Wiseman. Why is it so good? Maybe because Marcus Wynne is the real deal: a former grunt who patrolled the Korean DMZ as an original member of our North Korean Hunting Club. An ex-82nd Airborne trooper, he later became a Federal Air Marshal. He led a counter-terrorist Air Marshal team during the Gulf War and was later hired as a private consultant to train the South Africa Police Services' hostage rescue team and Nelson Mandela's Presidential Protection Unit. He's also a serious martial arts "player" and a skilled gunfighter. So if you're tired of reading books where the author doesn't know a 9mm from an entrenching tool, rest assured this book is accurate. Wynne gets it right, without boring you with arcane technical details or Clancy-esque techno-babble. Hopefully they'll make it into an action adventure movie without messing up that accuracy. And fortunately there's a sequel on the way.
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Summary: Amazing What You Can Stumble Upon
Review: I was at the airport and was getting ready to board my four hour flight when it occurred to me, I forgot to bring something to read. I hurried over to the news stand and did not have enough time to browse and picked up "No Other Option."
This book took me by complete surprised from the outset. It is packed with so much action and suspense, I had a hard time getting off the plane as I was about to finish. Jonny Maxwell is a hero gone bad and Dale Miller, his former partner, has been called upon by federal law enforcement to help find him.
With the help of an attractive cop in Minneapolis, Dale decides to ditch the federal boys and go looking for Maxwell himself.
Wynne is probably the best kept secret among fictional suspense writers out there. If you like lots of action and do not get turned off by explicit language and excessive violence, I'd strongly recommend this book.
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Summary: Knows what he's writing about
Review: I write thrillers (THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE) and read a lot of them. This book really impressed me because of its authentic details. Marcus Wynne is a former paratrooper and Federal Air Marshal. He knows this territory on a first-hand basis, and he writes so vividly that he makes the reader feel in the midst of the action. Highly recommended.
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Summary: The perfect operator's world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I've read truckloads of thrillers. Most of them are pretty standard fare and follow a basic formula. The end is almost never in doubt. But it's not about the destination, it's about the journey and Marcus Wynne takes the reader on a very suspenseful and exciting one with No Other Option. Some may say that the characters lack significant depth and they would be right. But let's face it, this isn't Pulitzer winning material. If that's what your looking for look elsewhere. For me, the characters are as fleshed out as they need to be. I rank Mr. Wynne right up there with my favorites in this genre, most notably Stephen Hunter. I can't wait to read Warrior in the Shadows.
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Summary: Wynne is a winner.
Review: I've read truckloads of thrillers. Most of them are pretty standard fare and follow a basic formula. The end is almost never in doubt. But it's not about the destination, it's about the journey and Marcus Wynne takes the reader on a very suspenseful and exciting one with No Other Option. Some may say that the characters lack significant depth and they would be right. But let's face it, this isn't Pulitzer winning material. If that's what your looking for look elsewhere. For me, the characters are as fleshed out as they need to be. I rank Mr. Wynne right up there with my favorites in this genre, most notably Stephen Hunter. I can't wait to read Warrior in the Shadows.
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