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Summary: A true thriller!
Review: The situation - Middle Eastern terrorists led by one Colonel Qazi take over a US navy carrier and arm the nuclear weapons stockpile. Jake Grafton, CAG on board must avert their attempt to discredit the US. This was the first Coonts book I read and was swept along by the sheer fast pace of it. The characters are well portrayed and not just cardboard characters for window dressing, they contain dimension. The carrier scenes are striking and realistic and for those unfamiliar with life in the Navy such as I was, it's all explained in simple prose and not too much technobabble. The aerial scenes are as brilliant as anything Dale Brown has written and the general pace of the story is in the tradition of old hands like Alistair Maclean (RIP) and Clive Cussler. If you want an uncomplicated, thrilling read, get this one.
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Summary: Final Flight
Review: This book had all the making of a best seller. A great plot exciting and doesn't let the reader go. I personally found this one of Stephen Coonts best books ever. The reality of the events of this book almost makes it seem like a real event. This book has everyone involved. The US, Christians, Arabs, Jews, Atheist, and the rest of the world are all in trouble. The Arabs are after the US again. This time they are trying to capture one of their nuclear weapons. They are shown as experts in black mail as they "recruit" the people they need to complete their mission. They plan to use it to destroy all the religions that oppose them. They infiltrate the supercarrier USS United States. Jake Grafton is losing his vision and his pilots as problems start to occur on the planes. Still the problem falls on him. The Arabs make it into the carrier and take hostage the Admiral using him they get 7 nukes in to the coppers and fly away. It is now Jake's job to catch and destroy the Arabs before they can use the nukes. The ending is one of a kind.
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Summary: Final Flight
Review: This book had all the making of a best seller. A great plot exciting and doesn't let the reader go. I personally found this one of Stephen Coonts best books ever. The reality of the events of this book almost makes it seem like a real event. This book has everyone involved. The US, Christians, Arabs, Jews, Atheist, and the rest of the world are all in trouble. The Arabs are after the US again. This time they are trying to capture one of their nuclear weapons. They are shown as experts in black mail as they "recruit" the people they need to complete their mission. They plan to use it to destroy all the religions that oppose them. They infiltrate the supercarrier USS United States. Jake Grafton is losing his vision and his pilots as problems start to occur on the planes. Still the problem falls on him. The Arabs make it into the carrier and take hostage the Admiral using him they get 7 nukes in to the coppers and fly away. It is now Jake's job to catch and destroy the Arabs before they can use the nukes. The ending is one of a kind.
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Summary: If you like action and planes, you will LOVE this book
Review: This book was great. I had to read a book for English, and i choose this book. I was filled with action. It kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I ended up reading the book because i wanted to, not because i had to
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Summary: If you like action and planes, you will LOVE this book
Review: This book was great. I had to read a book for English, and i choose this book. I was filled with action. It kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I ended up reading the book because i wanted to, not because i had to
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Summary: 2nd best book writen by the author
Review: this is the second bestseller this author has come out
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Summary: Great sequel to "Flight of the Intruder"
Review: This was Coonts's first sequel to the unmatched 'Flight of the Intruder', bringing Jake Grafton back (for the first and ' it seemed in '88 when this book came out ' last time). While 'Intruder' took place during the Vietnam war, 'Final' has 'Cool-Hand' Grafton flying F-14 Tomcats in our times. Though nearly court-martialed at the end of the older book, 'Final' starts off years later with Grafton on the nuclear aircraft carrier 'United States', having achieved the vaunted position of 'CAG' ' the air-wing commander, and the highest ranking aviator a board. (In 'Intruder', Grafton deliberately attacked an unauthorized target; just as Grafton's career appeared doomed, President Nixon unleashed the 'Christmas Offensive', and the brass realized that they can't very well court-martial a gung-ho fighter pilot for striking back at the Vietnamese when the President declares an all-out air offensive.) Grafton's job is frustrated by the degree of bureaucracy that stands between him and getting his job done. Unfortunately, this isn't helped by his ship's position in the Med, where it attracts the attentions of a sinister arab mastermind, Col. Quazi. Owing his services to a fanatic arab leader with whom he is at odds, Quazi nevertheless plans and executes a daring and bloody infiltration of Grafton's carrier, with an eye towards its 'special' weapons (okay, its nukes! At the time, the USN's policy was to neither confirm nor deny the existence of nuclear weapons on any of its ships; given that the United States is a huge and modern aircraft carrier, Quazi figures his chances of finding nukes aboard are high). This was a great book, one that turned technothrillers on their head, even if it wasn't as much fun as 'Intruder'. For one thing, virtually none of the characters that made the older book fun return (like the boisterous and snobby 'Razor', the craven 'Rabbit' Wilson or the noble and demanding Camparelli; 'Tiger' Cole, Grafton's old navigator, doesn't return and his replacement here, 'Toad' Tarkington doesn't quite fill Tiger's shoes; 'Cowboy' is back, but more on him later), and much of the priceless repartee that Coonts gave his fliers is absent here. Grafton, who was a very approachable character in the older book is more remote here ' owing to both his higher rank (fewer people can talk to him one-on-one) and the complex plot involving terrorists which keeps Grafton from becoming a character central to the book. Coonts seems deliberately dead serious, but he handles it well. Coonts also manages to save the day without relying on the typical technothriller stand-bys: instead of special forces or expert analysts or the heroic and hunky operative, Coonts has the day saved by the embattled sailors of the USS United States, led into battle by its grizzled chiefs. When the gravity of the crisis hits Washington, Coonts manages to avoid creating the typical scene in which the planners and generals are already gathered in front of some situation room in the Pentagon, guaging the situation from countless computer screens (instead, Grafton and company have to conference the situation over the phone with an assistant SecDef, one who ofcourse orders Grafton NOT to fly off into battle). Technothriller authors often insist that their plots are 'frighteningly plausible', but Coonts succeeds here because he embraces the chaos that eludes other writers who are enamored or addicted to plots in which hi-tech and brilliant heroes will save the day in the end. If 'Final' has one big flaw, it's the arabs ' not that their evil, they're just boring. The plot works at Quazi's reluctance to make his master a nuclear power, but doesn't work that hard at it. Still a worthy read, and one of the great technothrillers suffering only in having been eclipsed by 'Intruder'.
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Summary: Great sequel to "Flight of the Intruder"
Review: This was Coonts�s first sequel to the unmatched �Flight of the Intruder�, bringing Jake Grafton back (for the first and � it seemed in �88 when this book came out � last time). While �Intruder� took place during the Vietnam war, �Final� has �Cool-Hand� Grafton flying F-14 Tomcats in our times. Though nearly court-martialed at the end of the older book, �Final� starts off years later with Grafton on the nuclear aircraft carrier �United States�, having achieved the vaunted position of �CAG� � the air-wing commander, and the highest ranking aviator a board. (In �Intruder�, Grafton deliberately attacked an unauthorized target; just as Grafton�s career appeared doomed, President Nixon unleashed the �Christmas Offensive�, and the brass realized that they can�t very well court-martial a gung-ho fighter pilot for striking back at the Vietnamese when the President declares an all-out air offensive.) Grafton�s job is frustrated by the degree of bureaucracy that stands between him and getting his job done. Unfortunately, this isn�t helped by his ship�s position in the Med, where it attracts the attentions of a sinister arab mastermind, Col. Quazi. Owing his services to a fanatic arab leader with whom he is at odds, Quazi nevertheless plans and executes a daring and bloody infiltration of Grafton�s carrier, with an eye towards its �special� weapons (okay, its nukes! At the time, the USN�s policy was to neither confirm nor deny the existence of nuclear weapons on any of its ships; given that the United States is a huge and modern aircraft carrier, Quazi figures his chances of finding nukes aboard are high). This was a great book, one that turned technothrillers on their head, even if it wasn�t as much fun as �Intruder�. For one thing, virtually none of the characters that made the older book fun return (like the boisterous and snobby �Razor�, the craven �Rabbit� Wilson or the noble and demanding Camparelli; �Tiger� Cole, Grafton�s old navigator, doesn�t return and his replacement here, �Toad� Tarkington doesn�t quite fill Tiger�s shoes; �Cowboy� is back, but more on him later), and much of the priceless repartee that Coonts gave his fliers is absent here. Grafton, who was a very approachable character in the older book is more remote here � owing to both his higher rank (fewer people can talk to him one-on-one) and the complex plot involving terrorists which keeps Grafton from becoming a character central to the book. Coonts seems deliberately dead serious, but he handles it well. Coonts also manages to save the day without relying on the typical technothriller stand-bys: instead of special forces or expert analysts or the heroic and hunky operative, Coonts has the day saved by the embattled sailors of the USS United States, led into battle by its grizzled chiefs. When the gravity of the crisis hits Washington, Coonts manages to avoid creating the typical scene in which the planners and generals are already gathered in front of some situation room in the Pentagon, guaging the situation from countless computer screens (instead, Grafton and company have to conference the situation over the phone with an assistant SecDef, one who ofcourse orders Grafton NOT to fly off into battle). Technothriller authors often insist that their plots are �frighteningly plausible�, but Coonts succeeds here because he embraces the chaos that eludes other writers who are enamored or addicted to plots in which hi-tech and brilliant heroes will save the day in the end. If �Final� has one big flaw, it�s the arabs � not that their evil, they�re just boring. The plot works at Quazi�s reluctance to make his master a nuclear power, but doesn�t work that hard at it. Still a worthy read, and one of the great technothrillers suffering only in having been eclipsed by �Intruder�.
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Summary: Wondeful Page Turner
Review: This was my second Stephen Coonts, the first i read was The Flight of Intruder, a Great book too ..
Final flight is even better, i think is one of the best thrillers i have read, wondeful story, great plot and the Jake Grafton Character is very Good, Toad Turkington is a very Funny Character. The description of the flight scenes are very well done, it's almost you were in the carrier. This book is a must have. Highly recommended.
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Summary: TOO good can't be put down, before finishing.
Review: TOO good can't be put down, before finishing
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