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Choke Points

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Mike Walling's plotline is not just an exceedingly fast paced and very scary post 9/11 suspense thriller--I pray to God this never happens--it could be a horrific headline from the future.

Like the author I am an ex-Coast Guardsman and even though it is a work of fiction this freight train Coast Guard action scenario is 100 percent credible. Walling develops his totally believeable characters very well and the fast paced suspenseful plot has more twists, turns, and suprises than the Snake River Canyon. In the Coast Guard I was stationed all over the world including most of the places mentioned in the book. I've just retired from the Navy's Military Sealift Command where I spent a lot of time deployed to the Middle East where I had the privilege of seeing the Coast Guard in action--believe me when I say that issues of maritime security were of constant concern to us in the Gulf especially after the bombing of the USS COLE. More than once I have heard the sound of one or more of the ship's 50 Cal. gun mounts firing warning shots when a small boat was approaching too close and too fast. From page one to the end the hair on the back of my neck was standing straight up. This is not a book that you read once and put down. This is a read again and again type of book that I would very much like to see on the big screen.

Jim Gilliam

The story begins with a rush and never lets up ! Mark Fletcher is believable and three-dimensioned, you really care what happens to him and his group. There's enough technicalities to keep men interested and enough female interaction to keep women page turning. I hope Mike writes more novels of this riveting genre!

From start to finish Choke Points was entertaining. The realistic representation of what could really go wrong at our ports is one of the scariest notions in this post 9/11 world. The details were just right. The dialogue great. And the way the story was told over time was a intriguing vehicle. Can't wait to see what Walling comes up with next.