Gayle Rivers... is fascinating. When you look at all of the books he wrote... They are all cutting edge with "issues" that will pop up several years after he has introduced the subject... Like PATCON etc. Many things about his stories in the late 70's and 80's were cutting edge now in hindsight and he intentionally sabotages story credibility with glaring "errors". Someone once told me that Redford's character in "Spy Games" was a homage to Gayle Rivers and an insult...between friends.... Redford driving a limey racing green 911 at the end would have never happened because he was verbal in his disdain for anyone driving anything from Porsche that wasn't white or silver.
Agreed. I read it shortly after it's release ten plus years ago. Reagan had raised a red flag years before regarding the effect of EMPs and had tried to implement countermeasures. The current state of affairs makes things notably worse. Everything has chips including your refrigerator, LRF and and Kestrel. I was also aware of the fact that there are natural sources for EMPs that could leave much greater area effected than nuclear. We have already seen the effects of simple bugs introduced into computer systems. We can't even deal with that.
A. American Survivalist series is all about an EMP scenario, which may or may not have been released by our own government after/during a coronal mass ejection... which in the book is akin to the current administration. Books were actually written during the Obama administration.
I made the mistake of picking it up just before going to Vegas with my middle son and the wheelchair rugby team he plays with, here I am thinking about what I could do in that type of situation with a group of quadriplegics.
I think I'll read "Charley Mike". There is a review by a guy that served under an infantry officer who he identifies as the writer of the book. I was in the 173rds AO for an extended period of time that encompasses the NCO's time.
Without Remorse is, without a doubt, the best of that series.Just finished Clancy's Rainbow Six. Sorry to say it was not as good as Without Remorse IMO. It needed a proofreader for starters to eliminate the typos; those really bug me. It was also a good 150 pages too long as Clancy liked to repeat himself too much. I very much liked John Kelly in Without Remorse, a strong dedicated warrior. I actually enjoyed the scene where he tortured Billy, the drug-runner, in the decompression chamber, from a medical viewpoint (I'm a retired RN). He was the same as John Clark in Rainbow Six. Now, I freely admit I'm not the most macho guy in the world. I just like to go the the range to shoot, talk to a few guys I know there, compete in some of the range competitions there. Never in the military, actually got turned down for medical reasons. Therefore, Idk how much of Clancy's manly images were real or hyped up (let the flaming begin). I'm just curious from a civilian POV.
Alas, this story seemed just a bit too far-fetched for me.
Yep, this is a good one! Col. Cooper was the man!!
