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Summary: best book this year!
Review: "Cobraville" is one of those books that you start reading then decide to put everything else aside until you finish. It has a strong, fast moving, intriguing plot with a diverse cast of characters. There are good guys, bad guys and some that fall in between. The plot keeps you guessing to the very end and the real villian is revealed in a surprise twist. Mr. Stround just gets better and better. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: best book this year!
Review: "Cobraville" is one of those books that you start reading then decide to put everything else aside until you finish. It has a strong, fast moving, intriguing plot with a diverse cast of characters. There are good guys, bad guys and some that fall in between. The plot keeps you guessing to the very end and the real villian is revealed in a surprise twist. Mr. Stround just gets better and better. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Cross, double-cross and triple-cross
Review: A secret mission to the Phillipines, the perfidious French and Germans, Islamist militants, a U.S. Senator, his somewhat estranged son, a mysterious D.C. insider, a handpicked assault team, a venomous Jesuit, Secret Service and other agents . . . wow, everything you need for a party. And a party is what Carsten Stroud delivers in "Cobraville." Senator Drew Langan, a member of Intelligence Oversight Committee, meets with Gunther Krugman, who passes over a blue envelope containing an intercept from the National Security Agency --- that Langan is not entitled to read. On the same evening, an intruder apparently seeks to murder the Senator. Thus begins the adventure. The plot takes one twist and turn after another. Unbeknownst to Langan, his son is a member of a team carrying out a sensitive mission in a region of the Phillipines occupied by Islamist militants. Gunther Krugman is missing. This is one of the best crafted suspense thrillers I've ever read. Stroud's characters are richly developed and his scenes are persuasive: you can practically smell the stink of the jungle and the bouquet of the fine wines in the D.C., Virginia and Pennsylvania countryside. Ultimately there is cross, double-cross and triple-cross and one hell of a fine read. Jerry
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Summary: Action and betrayal
Review: Good action in two hemispheres. But a little too tricky. A simpler conspiracy might have been more believable, but this is a well done tale by a very good author.
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Summary: 4 1/2 stars
Review: See storyline above. Carsten Stroud, one of my favorite spy thriller writers, delivers yet another exciting adventure involving both politics and terrorism. This novel will keep you on the edge. The story and writing style, both solid, will keep thriller fans happy. The only bad thing I noticed was the editing. If there are three or four mistakes I usually won't mention it, but there are at least twice this many. Highly recommended.
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Summary: exhilarating international thriller
Review: While the United Nations is struggling with a peacekeeping mission in the Philippines, al-Qaeda plans on a spectacular bombing to disrupt the efforts. US Senator Drew Langan receives classified information that highlights the al-Qaeda plot, but he sets it aside as he has no involvement in what is going on and there are capable people working the anti-terrorism circuit. However, the overseas scenario comes home to roost when someone tries to kill Drew. Meanwhile Drew's estranged son, CIA operative Cole is working an assignment near Iligan City, the sight of the al-Qaeda endeavor. He knows that with the United Nations involved,, what could go wrong will and he could be a collateral damage statistic even if he does everything right; catching malaria would be a benefit. An ocean and continent apart, the two Langans fight to survive the war on terrorism. COBRAVILLE is an exhilarating international thriller that contrasts the war on terrorism on two fronts, state-side vs. jungle warfare. The story line deftly switches back and forth between the two Langdons as each in there own way struggles to survive. Whether the fight is a jungle military operation or typical DC political bunko-bunko, fans receive an often humorous, but always insightful and keen look at a world gone amuck and gory. It is so believable fans will conclude that Carsten Stroud could make Senator Kennedy and the French believe that he knows where the WMD are hidden without bushwhacking anyone's reputation. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: exhilarating international thriller
Review: While the United Nations is struggling with a peacekeeping mission in the Philippines, al-Qaeda plans on a spectacular bombing to disrupt the efforts. US Senator Drew Langan receives classified information that highlights the al-Qaeda plot, but he sets it aside as he has no involvement in what is going on and there are capable people working the anti-terrorism circuit. However, the overseas scenario comes home to roost when someone tries to kill Drew. Meanwhile Drew's estranged son, CIA operative Cole is working an assignment near Iligan City, the sight of the al-Qaeda endeavor. He knows that with the United Nations involved,, what could go wrong will and he could be a collateral damage statistic even if he does everything right; catching malaria would be a benefit. An ocean and continent apart, the two Langans fight to survive the war on terrorism. COBRAVILLE is an exhilarating international thriller that contrasts the war on terrorism on two fronts, state-side vs. jungle warfare. The story line deftly switches back and forth between the two Langdons as each in there own way struggles to survive. Whether the fight is a jungle military operation or typical DC political bunko-bunko, fans receive an often humorous, but always insightful and keen look at a world gone amuck and gory. It is so believable fans will conclude that Carsten Stroud could make Senator Kennedy and the French believe that he knows where the WMD are hidden without bushwhacking anyone's reputation. Harriet Klausner
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