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Summary: another bomb
Review: In the usual fashion of Stephen Coonts novels they take the best clip from the book to lure unsuspecting people to buy the book. Once you get the book though you trudge through page after page of slow and boring literature.. To put it into perspective, I am more likely to pick up my Economics text and read it for fun than i am to read Cuba. The book is horribly drawn out.. What could have been said in 100 pages has been drawn out to 390 pages. Guess I should have learned from the Under Seige. I recommend reading a book by a better author such as Dale Brown or Tom Clancy.
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Summary: Not up to Stephen's Standard.
Review: When Stephen Coonts wrote 'Flight of the Intruder' he wrote it like the ex-Navy Aviator he was. When he wrote Cuba he wrote like a lawyer and it's disappointing. Lots of words but not much action. And everything is politically correct with the ladies doing most of the flying. And, oh yes, a two star admiral flying an F-14 off the deck of a carrier! Really, Stephen! Give us a break.IF you can wade through the first two-hundred pages you might get interested in this story. But I did a lot of wiggling around in my chair and never really enjoyed any of this. Maybe add a star if you are a female.
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Summary: good but not the best
Review: A bit slow at times and required some perseverance to read, but at the end became a page turner and more in keeping with what I expected.
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Summary: Not exactly a page turner
Review: I have greatly enjoyed Mr. Coonts past books, most of which I found gripping and hard to put down. But with Cuba, I found it hard to pick up. I don't think I can explain exactly what is wrong with this book other than saying it is..well...kinda dull for this author. The plot is rather plodding and never really fully encompasses the reader in its excitement and, personally, I don't really care about Cuban political struggles. I'll say it again, I really can't define what is wrong other than the fact that the book is truely boring. Don't waste your money on the hard-cover edition, save it for the paperback or, better yet, check it out from the library for free.
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Summary: From Lt to Vice Admiral, how time flies.
Review: As an old "brown shoe" Navy man (Pensacola 57) I love naval aviation books. This is one of the most enjoyable. From the days of nearly being court martialed in Nam, to Rear Admiral. Jake Grafton has progressed. So too has Stephen Coonts. This is a well written, carefully crafted novel; his characters are believable and the plot builds to the appropriate crescendo. My only regret is that I see an end to the jake Grafton books, he will now be too removed from any action.
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Summary: All-out action
Review: 'Cuba' is one of Coontz's best. I bought a copy along with 'The General's Daughter' and 'The Triumph and the Glory' thinking I'd be set for a couple weeks but ended up reading all three in four days I'm a big techno-thriller fan and look forward to the new stuff from Coontz, Clancy, Dake Brown, et al because every other genre puts me to sleep. Jake Grafton takes on a scheming Cuban politico in this one and the action never stops. It's sort of a new twist on the Cuban Missile Crisis updated to 1999, Coontz style. Enjoy!
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Summary: "Cuba" is a worthy part of the Jake Grafton series.
Review: I found this to be an exciting read, once I got past the inconsistency with Coonts's "Under Siege," in which Fidel is executed as a democratic movement takes over Cuba. In this one, we seem to be in an alternate reality, where, years later, Castro is about to die of natural causes. Whether he'll be succeeded by the brutal secret police chief or an anti-Castro dissident is one of the several plot lines of this book. The main plot line, concerning use of left-over Scud missiles to potentially deliver deadly viruses to major cities in the Southeastern U.S., consumes most of the book. What I liked best was the secondary plot concerning two CIA agents operating in Cuba. They were well fleshed-out characters who added enough variety to the typical Grafton-Tarkington-Moravia plot to make this more than a formulaic add-on to this series. You can still depend on Jake Grafton to supply laconic common-sense reactions to military and political situations, as others run in circles, scream, and shout. One final point -- the final mini-chapter climax was both surprising and satisfying.
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Summary: Not His BEST work ...
Review: I just got done reading Mr. Coonts' new Jake Grafton novel ... CUBA. While it was good read about favorite characters (Cool-hand ... Toad ... Rita) I for one wouldn't call this a 'Jake Grafton Novel." I would have to say that our favorite A-6 driver was probably involved less than 25% of the story. While I did enjoy the story line, I also felt that it was much shorter than I would have liked. I'm sure a person of Mr. Coonts' caliber at writing stories such as (my favorites) "Flight of the Intruder" & especially "Final Flight" ... that we could've gotten a more detailed story line that what transpired in CUBA. The other thing that bothers me is that in almost every story after "Final Flight" Mr. Coonts seems it's necessary to have Jake in the throes of deciding what to do with his career. He's always on the brink of being forced into retirement by the political-ites of Washington. The story line of "Final Flight" was, I felt, superb with the many different characters, dialogue, flight scenes & espionage entanglements as compared with CUBA. It almost seems that Mr. Coonts was just trying to write a book for the sake of writing one. While I still remain a fan of Mr. Coonts & his cast of characters ... Jake, Callie, Toad, Rita, and mny others, I was disappointed by this book on a whole. If you're a FAN of Mr. Coonts from his first book "Flight of the Intruder" then you may be disappointed with this book. If you're new to Mr. Coonts' story-lines, then you will probably enjoy this book.
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Summary: "Cuba" is a worthy part of the Jake Grafton series.
Review: I found this to be an exciting read, once I got past the inconsistency with Coonts's "Under Siege," in which Fidel is executed as a democratic movement takes over Cuba. In this one, we seem to be in an alternate reality, where, years later, Castro is about to die of natural causes. Whether he'll be succeeded by the brutal secret police chief or an anti-Castro dissident is one of the several plot lines of this book. The main plot line, concerning use of left-over Scud missiles to potentially deliver deadly viruses to major cities in the Southeastern U.S., consumes most of the book. What I liked best was the secondary plot concerning two CIA agents operating in Cuba. They were well fleshed-out characters who added enough variety to the typical Grafton-Tarkington-Moravia plot to make this more than a formulaic add-on to this series. You can still depend on Jake Grafton to supply laconic common-sense reactions to military and political situations, as others run in circles, scream, and shout. One final point -- the final mini-chapter climax was both surprising and satisfying.
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Summary: My first Coonts but certainly not the last!
Review: As I was browsing a local book store back in April, looking for some reading material to take along on a trip south, the title CUBA jumped out at me from the shelf. As my destination was, in fact, Cuba (I'm a Canadian), I picked up the book without further investigation, believing there is no such thing as "coincidence" and whatever happens, happens for a reason -- see "A Road Less Travelled". It turned out to be the right move. Cuba is a highly entertaining piece of fiction, mixed with a satisfying amount of non-fiction, resulting in a "good read". The situations in the book are neither implausible nor improbable, particularly in view of past and current world happenings, while still providing escape. I fell into and throughly enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone who likes adventure, suspense and action, with a touch of reality. And, I must confess, it was even more enjoyable when being read only a relatively short distance from where it all "happened". I'm going on to the other Coonts efforts.
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