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Summary: The perfect operator's world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: If your an operator, then you can understand.
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Summary: No Other Option
Review: Interesting start, but fails to follow through. Special government people are presented as incompentant. Regular police are also presented as over zealous and stupid. The main character is supposed to be sharp and very alert, but pulls a few too many stupid actions. Average reading, may have some insight into the minds of some law enforcement people. Okay reading if you are waiting for an doctor appointment or something to kill the time.
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Summary: Captivating and rich thriller
Review: Mr. Wynne's novel was captivating - rich characters in a cohesive and thrilling plot. From the onset the author painted a vivid story which ran like a "mental movie" - visually stimulating and detailed background with realistic and complex characters. A "must have" for the thriller connoisseur.
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Summary: TOP NOTCH SPEC. OPS. THRILLER
Review: NO OTHER OPTION is a book about covert operations by a person who has been there. Marcus Wynne is a former special operator in the U.S. Army, Federal Air Marshal,executive bodyguard,researcher and trainer. Now he has directed his talents in to a novel that gives the reader a first hand look at black operations. I had the pleasure of reading an advanced copy of this book and I was most impressed. Mr. Wynne has a good handle on the weapons, techniques and mindset of those who must operate in the shadows. Based on a true story, NO OTHER OPTION is about the nationwide manhunt for a special operator who goes "off the reservation" and becomes a serial ... murderer. Pursued by his former partner and a group of U.S. Marshals, the story gets deep into how shadow warriors live and work. HIGH INTENSITY STORY LINE!
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Summary: Superb Page Turner
Review: No Other Option is, I suppose, of the men's adventure fiction genre. Even if you don't like this sort of fiction generally (and I don't), this book is an exception. Marcus Wynne, having traveled and trained in the world of SpecWar operators, is able to bring insight into the minds of these very unusual men. The book is full of action, sure - but not fantasy action. All of it is realistic and there are no super human feats involved-albeit there are highly trained men involved. The focus isn't on the weapons, but on how someone so carefully selected and trained can go as bad as the villain does. In fact, the line connecting the traits of a villian and a hero is explored.
The best I can say for this book is that it is extremely difficult to put down - and that's what counts. The fact that it reflects realistically on the tactics of Special Operations makes it all the better. And for those of us in law enforcement, the highlighting of the differences between the military and law enforcement approach hits squarely home indeed.
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Summary: Hard charging action
Review: Read the author's biography, and you know you are dealing with someone who has been there, done that. Wynne takes us into the covert world of military special operations. He asks the question: What does a country do with highly trained operators in the absence of war?Jonny Maxwell was considered the best. But Jonny had a problem - he liked to rape women. So Jonny goes to jail and breaks out, because that is what he was trained to do. They send Jonny's partner, Dale Miller, to bring Jonny in, failing that to take Jonny out. This is an edge of your seat manhunt. A thriller that suggests SWAT teams and SOG Marshal units are not up to the task when confronting highly trained and highly organized people. It is so refreshing to read a book where the author gets the guns and the action right. Wynne obviously knows what certain kinds of weapons are capable of and more importantly what they can't do. He also understands small unit and single man actions. I enjoyed this book. It is a great find to discover another writer who works in this genre and knows what he is talking about.
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Summary: Without Quarter Asked or Given
Review: Readers of novels about men and women whose sense of honor and duty (battered, stained, and weary though it may be) helps sustain them in battles most of us would as soon not think about, let alone fight, are always faced with the problem of wading through formulaic junk by armchair soldiers, special ops wannabes, and hardware obsessives before finding the rare book written by someone who not only knows what they're talking about, but can also take that knowledge and tell a believable story based upon.
The modern ranks of such writers are thin. Among them are Ralph Peters and Susan Matthews, Keith Anderson, Derek Robinson and Andy McNab, A. F. N. Clarke, and several others here and abroad. Now, Marcus Wynne has joined them.
Wynne's NO OTHER OPTION is distinguished in three ways:
The story is straightforward, clearly told, and uncluttered with the useless narrative tricks favored by self-reverential "artists" and their toadying literary-critic and academic allies. It MOVES. The characters are believable: while some of them are possessed of uncommon abilities, they are common people in the sense that we feel we could know them. They're not exotic creations living fantasy lives; Wynne refuses to lead us into James Bond or Modesty Blaise territory. Even the man being hunted - a man of such ferocity and ruthlessness as to make a basilisk seem like a tame house pet - even this man is written as an individual, not a kind of totemic object (that bit's for the artistes). The third and, in a way, the most impressive thing about NO OTHER OPTION is the restraint with which Wynne tells the story. In the hands of someone less able (it's difficult to believe this is his first book), the events and characters would be rendered with the luridness and voyeurism that so often taints hard-boiled fiction. Wynne is much too intelligent for that. When I was reading this book I was reminded at times of Capote's IN COLD BLOOD or Len Deighton's BOMBER: terrible deeds made more so by the author's calm and formidable skill.
This is an exceptional book. I look forward to Wynne's next with a mixture of dread and the most intense curiousity.
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Summary: Practically perfect until the very end
Review: So as not to repeat the words of others, I'll just keep my review limited to this SPOILER: The character development is top notch, the heroes are good, the bad guy is even better, and the pace is calculated well. The only downside (which I'm charging a full star for) is that after all of that, I wanted to see the hero take down the bad guy because of his skills and cleverness, not because he got lucky or got bailed out. Still pretty good, and highly impressive for a first effort.
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Summary: Smell the Cordite, Feel the Muzzle Blasts
Review: Sorry, glitched on this before ... the "star rating" should be 5 out of 5 for No Other Option. Anxiously awaiting the sequel.
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Summary: High Quality military/police thriller. Breathtaking stuff.
Review: SpecFor man gone mad. Every militaries nightmare. What happens when a highly trained assassin loses the plot and goes 'bad'. Jonny Maxwell, just such a soldier, a member of a very elite SpecFor group has been jailed for a large number of rapes. He escapes jail, leaving dead guards in his wake, and we follow his rampage through the Midwest of the USA, corpses left scattered everywhere, as ghe authorities bring Jonny's military colleague Dale Miller to assist the police efforts to recapture the convict. The book weaves its compelling tale around the friendship that was enjoyed by Dale and Jonny, by Dale's intimate knowledge of Jonny's methods, and and throws in the detruction of more policemen than exist in many small towns, a few criminals, a few houses and cars. This book would be the ideal basis for a film to beat Lethal Weapon. Astoundingly believable plots and characters. Breathtaking!!
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