Sand Blind (A Mask Noir Title)

Rating:
Summary: Pretty Hum-Drum Stuff
Review: Although this was published under the "Mask Noir" imprint, it's more of a thriller set just prior to the Gulf War, than a mystery per se. The story is about an embittered British radar technician who is inexplicably fired from his job in England. He soon finds himself unwittingly (at first) in the employ of Iraq in modifying a radar system so that it can detect stealth aircraft, and thus protect the Republican Guard. There are all kinds of standard thriller complications: a Palestinian "honey-pot," a CIA "watcher," an likable elderly father, etc. The book skips around a bit, sometimes in first-person by one of Saddam's attendants, sometimes in first-person by the CIA watcher, sometimes in a Pentagon meeting, but it mostly follows the radar tech. The attempts to portray the Americans are fairly clumsy, and the Palestinian girl's motivations seem to be awfully flexible. Pretty hum-drum stuff, all in all.

Rating:
Summary: Pretty Hum-Drum Stuff
Review: Although this was published under the "Mask Noir" imprint, it's more of a thriller set just prior to the Gulf War, than a mystery per se. The story is about an embittered British radar technician who is inexplicably fired from his job in England. He soon finds himself unwittingly (at first) in the employ of Iraq in modifying a radar system so that it can detect stealth aircraft, and thus protect the Republican Guard. There are all kinds of standard thriller complications: a Palestinian "honey-pot," a CIA "watcher," an likable elderly father, etc. The book skips around a bit, sometimes in first-person by one of Saddam's attendants, sometimes in first-person by the CIA watcher, sometimes in a Pentagon meeting, but it mostly follows the radar tech. The attempts to portray the Americans are fairly clumsy, and the Palestinian girl's motivations seem to be awfully flexible. Pretty hum-drum stuff, all in all.