Pirate
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In Ted chimes sweltering follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Assassin, intrepid intelligence operative Alex Hawke must thwart a secret, deadly alliance between China and France before they annihilate everything and everyone in their hastily rush toward world domination.
Aboard the Star of Shanghai in the south of France, an American spy is held captive. He possesses vital, explosive intelligence between two nations and one horrifying plot. If he is not rescued, he faces certain torture and inevitable death. Nearby, in a seaside hotel, a man still haunted by the loss of his wife two years earlier finds comfort in the arms of a gorgeous Chinese actress–but is she to be trusted? So starts Pirate, an electrifying thriller marking the return of international counterterrorist Alex Hawke. In Paris, a ruthless successor of Napoleon has risen to power, hell-bent on restoring France’s ex- glory. His fiery ambitions are cynically stoked by a coterie of cold-blooded Mandarins, plotting behind the gates of Beijing’s Forbidden City. Cloaked in secrecy, this unholy alliance devises a twisted global plot, backed by China’s growing nuclear arsenal, that will send America and the world to the brink of a gutwrenching showdown.
With the aid of his ancient friend and ex- Navy SEAL, Stokely Jones, Hawke sets out to investigate the deadly relations that bind the French-Chinese axis. Together, they learn that a powerful German industrialist may hold the key, somewhere inside the walls of his Bavarian mountain lair. Meanwhile, clues to an ancient and gruesome murder in Paris lead to New York City, where horrifying evidence could finally bring a madman to his knees. In the end, as American and British forces prepare to defend a sovereign and oil-rich Gulf nation against unwilling occupation, the terror is all too real. The world is once more balanced on the knife-edge of a full-blown nuclear confrontation.
Hawke must once more prepare to hurl himself deep into the nightmare visions of madmen. He must garner every ounce of might, courage, and useful pain from his past. He must defeat this enemy or else forfeit the lives of untold thousands, including his own, to an axis of evil no historian could have ever predicted.
Packed with inexorable action, glamour, and high style, and featuring the spectacular Alex Hawke, who time and again transports readers to the edge of danger, Pirate is a spellbinding thriller. Be prepared for Alex Hawke’s most daunting and heart-pounding mission yet. Here is an leader who gets you in the palm of his hand…and then clenches his fist!
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Compared to Ted Bells additional books, this was a huge letdown. I hope his next book is better.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I just finished the book (unabridged audio version)and establish it to be an OK thriller provided you can overlook the major faults with the weapons and tactics used in many places in the book. There are more problems and plot holes with this book then there are with a book by Clive Cusler.
For example the US military loans Hawke a preproduction model of the F35 to glide into a hostile foreign airstrip to test the status of the now glide zone and how they will react to the US. First he’s not really trained on the plane which even the leader admits flies substantially different than less advanced fighters, but the terrible guys (foreign nations) would just about do anything to get a effective version of the plane which he had plotted to land in their laps. Later in the book there is an insane (from a military standpoint) intent to use a super gun with 120+ mile range to take in the 20 mile wide Strait of Hormuz. Not only wouldn’t it be appropriate to use it there the installation parameter and the relatively flat trajectory the gun installed where it’s supposed to be would negate the effectiveness and range of this gun which was in the real world is proposed to launch it’s shell in a ballistic trajectory. Beyond the faults with the weapons there are additional problems that our hero solves in impossible ways or in impossible time periods. The hurt to the auxiliary engines latter in the book is just one glaring example.
The book is like a James Bond movie. It works if you don’t care about the details. This was the first and will be the only book I read by Ed Bell.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this book for help on a 12 hour flight, what a mistake. Really improbable, filled with fluff, a waste of my time, and yours too. See my listing, you can buy it for $10
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
This is a real terrible version of a Tom Clancy technothriller. The characters are cartoon like, continuity editing is missing and is continuously harping about the evil French. The premise could be appealing, but it is written for an extremely simple minded audience.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is a book written as a “formula” book. It has several outright inaccuracies as has been previously cited. Hawke was agreed the first F35 to buzz around in? Riiiightt! Come on that plane wouldn’t have been allowed to be photographed much less flown by a rouge guy like Hawke. What was the point of the F35 Flight in any case?
An anti gravity train? Is this Science Fiction?
Another case was when Jet was about to be set upon by a frothing at the mouth Doberman, Jet says relief the dog. It turns out the dog was a long lost pet of hers named Blondi. Riigghtt! A pet does not show fangs and froth at the mouth.
I judge several parts of this book were just stuck in for filler.
To regularly a name shows up miraculously just at the right time to save the day.
There is a fantastic lack of creditability in this writing.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5