![]() ![]() Paperback rights to Pocket Books Literary Guild dual main selection Military Book Club main selection major ad/promo. Coyle's prose is often clumsy, the chapter-head quotes (from Napoleon, Sherman et al.) are as pertinent as fortune cookies and the ending manages to be sentimental and ungrammatical at the same time. And confusion arrives with the authentic alphabet soup: lots of info about MRRs, RDEs, BDUs, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() Interest is not sustained by the book's undeniable authenticity, which has all the style of a training manual. But all the characters are paper-thin and all sound equally earnest and boring. The narrative consists mainly of set pieces on back-and-forth desert fighting, flashing from one side to another and featuring some continuing characters. There is a little suspense about whether Iran, fighting both ``satans,'' will detonate an atomic bomb, and somewhat less about whether the U.S.S.R. Harold Coyle is an American author of historical, speculative fiction and war novels including Team Yankee, a New York Times bestseller. ``places its trust in the ability of the individual soldier and his leaders.'' We are not surprised, therefore, when his thriller picks the winner of a two-month war between the superpowers in Iran. Army officer Coyle ( Team Yankee ) says that the Red Army treasures ``conformity and discipline'' while the U.S. Sword Point by Harold Coyle Write The First Customer Review Filter Results Shipping Expedited Shipping Available In the not-too-distant future, the Soviet Union invades Iran, and the United States hastily deploys its forces to push back the Red attack-despite Irans unrelenting hostility toward America. ![]()
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