Hammerheads

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Summary: An excellent book!!!
Review: Drug dealers are using force to put themselves up against the US authorities in a brilliant yarn often similar to Tom Clancy's CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER and Stephen Coonts's UNDER SIEGE. It's up to Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle, who sets up the Border Security Force, armed with an assortment of high-tech weaponry, to stop them. The drug barons' arms suply provides a good degree of competition too! Mercenary fighter pilots, anti-ship missles, man-portable missile launchers all bought from Argentina after the Falklands War and ex-Cuban MiGs! The pace is like any othe Dale Brown book - fast, furious and relentless, the action never stops and everything technical is well explained. Another winner!

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Summary: Another winner from Brown
Review: In his best tale yet, the techno thriller author supreme posits a new supergroup of agents brought together to foil the drug trade. Operating from off shore platforms the Hammerheads use the latest in technology to battle smugglers and cartels. When they go up against a Cuban backed drug lord, they find he has the ability to fight back. Excellent adventure, fast moving and entertaining. Brown outshines the competition in this adventure.

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Summary: Another winner from Brown
Review: In his best tale yet, the techno thriller author supreme posits a new supergroup of agents brought together to foil the drug trade. Operating from off shore platforms the Hammerheads use the latest in technology to battle smugglers and cartels. When they go up against a Cuban backed drug lord, they find he has the ability to fight back. Excellent adventure, fast moving and entertaining. Brown outshines the competition in this adventure.

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Summary: Simply the best
Review: It is simply the best Dale Brown book. A perfect balance between sci-techno and real life - a balance so often lost by many techo-writers Dale himself including.

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Summary: Too simplistic...
Review: The first book I read from Dale Brown, and I must say I am unimpressed. My foremost problem are the characters are given slight history but mostly glossed over for never ending episodes of action and skirmishes. There's not one character that truly stand out to like or hate. The family problems of the main character, Ian Hardcastle, is poorly developed, especially considering that his son is also using drugs.

I sometimes think that this is Dale Brown just wrote this to cash in on the success of Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. The solution of blockading Florida alone is still rather simplistic in my opinion. Certainly it will deal a major blow to South American cartels initially. I'm already thinking the Yakuzas and Triads might take over importing of drugs.

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Summary: Too simplistic...
Review: The first book I read from Dale Brown, and I must say I am unimpressed. My foremost problem are the characters are given slight history but mostly glossed over for never ending episodes of action and skirmishes. There's not one character that truly stand out to like or hate. The family problems of the main character, Ian Hardcastle, is poorly developed, especially considering that his son is also using drugs.

I sometimes think that this is Dale Brown just wrote this to cash in on the success of Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. The solution of blockading Florida alone is still rather simplistic in my opinion. Certainly it will deal a major blow to South American cartels initially. I'm already thinking the Yakuzas and Triads might take over importing of drugs.

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Summary: A Good Novel!
Review: This was quite an interesting book. The U.S. government decides to create an agency to battle imported drugs from Colombia.The name of this unit is "Hammerheads". Of course you have a favorite Dale Brown hero Ian Hardcastle. The drug lords have hired a Cuban general to lead their smuggling effort. There is plenty of high flying action in this book. The new unit is tried again and again. The drug lords through their Cuban general prove to be a worthy advesary. The state of Florida is under the gun in this book. If you like jets and airplanes this is your book. Buy it, it is a good read.

Rating:
Summary: A Good Novel!
Review: This was quite an interesting book. The U.S. government decides to create an agency to battle imported drugs from Colombia.The name of this unit is "Hammerheads". Of course you have a favorite Dale Brown hero Ian Hardcastle. The drug lords have hired a Cuban general to lead their smuggling effort. There is plenty of high flying action in this book. The new unit is tried again and again. The drug lords through their Cuban general prove to be a worthy advesary. The state of Florida is under the gun in this book. If you like jets and airplanes this is your book. Buy it, it is a good read.