Confirmed Kill [Mass Market Paperback]

Michael Z. Williamson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 30, 2005

When a pair of soldiers faces down deadly enemies together time after time, they become an efficient and deadly team. Kyle Monroe and Wade Curtis, two of the Army's most dangerous snipers, work together like a well–oiled machine. After hunting down terrorists in Pakistan and Romania, always under the official radar, Monroe and Curtis have learned how to get the job done by working together.

So when General Robash asked them to take on another extremely important mission, traveling to Indonesia to kill high–level terrorists with connections to Al Qaeda, they knew they were the best two men for the job. But as they're prepping for the mission, Robash has to undergo emergency heart surgery––leaving the men under another's command. Now the paper–pushing Colonel Wiesenger has decided to accompany the men on the mission, and it's soon obvious that three's a crowd. It will take all of the experience and skill the two snipers have to trek through the jungle villages of volatile Indonesia, and stop the terrorists in their tracks. They must kill the terrorist leaders before more innocents, including those of American oil workers, are added to the list of casualties in the war on terror.

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About the Author

Michael Z. Williamson served for five years in the United States Air Force and five years in the Army National Guard, and has spent eight years in the Air National Guard. He is a competitive shooter who also collects and builds firearms and enjoys recreational parachuting. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Avon (August 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060565268
• ISBN-13: 978-0060565268
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #742,470 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Z. Williamson is retired military, having served twenty-five years in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force. He was deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Desert Fox. Williamson is a state-ranked competitive shooter in combat rifle and combat pistol. He has consulted on military matters, weapons and disaster preparedness for Discovery Channel and Outdoor Channel productions and is Editor-at-Large for Survivalblog, with 300K weekly readers. In addition to these activities, Williamson tests and reviews firearms and gear for manufacturers. Williamson's books set in his Freehold Universe include Freehold, Better to Beg Forgiveness, and Do Unto Others. His novel The Hero - written in collaboration with New York Times best-selling author John Ringo-has reached modern classic status. Williamson was born in England, raised in Liverpool and Toronto, Canada, and now resides in Indianapolis with his wife and two children.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Battle Story!, September 28, 2005

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Melvin Hunt (Cleveland,, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confirmed Kill (Mass Market Paperback)

This is the third story about Army Ranger snipers Kyle Monroe
and Wade Curtis.They had previously been the heroes of "Scope
of Justice" and "Targets of Opportunity".In this novel American
intelligence services pick up on a plot in the jungles of Indonesia.Monroe and Curtis are given the assigment of taking the killers out.A group of al Qaeda fanatics plan on blowing an oil rich province sky high.Hundreds of innocents will die.
General Robash,their commanding officer,suffers a heart attck.
He has to have heart surgery and is definitely out on sick
leave.He is replaced as commander of the mission by Colonel Weisinger.Weisinger is fat,out of shape and incompetant.He is
a disaster as a commanding officer and causes more problems than
he solves.Monroe and Curtis have numerous gun battles with the
Indonesian terror group.The Rangers finally have to lead a rescue effort to save an American hostage and her daughter.This
book is nonstop action.This is an excellent followup to the other two books.Buy this book and read it.You will enjoy it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good just keeps getting better, September 26, 2005

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Geoffrey Kidd (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confirmed Kill (Mass Market Paperback)

If you've read this far down the page on the book, you already know this is the third book dealing with the life and death missions of Wade Curtis and Kyle Monroe, and it is, by far, the trickiest.

Mars may be the God of War, but Murphy is the God of Armies, and, as usual, Murphy has a field day with a Curtis-Monroe mission. On top of the usual perils of dangerous territory, uncertain allies, finding the target, and enemies who would delight in their deaths, they start out saddled with a half-trained and fully-clueless superior officer with a horrible talent for screwing up.

"Mad Mike" has a talent for dropping the reader into not just the action, but the *feel* of the action, and everywhere in the story, just as in the previous books, we get carried along into the minds of the characters and how their work impacts them, even as we get to read a very well-told suspense thriller. Always, right up to the end, we are forced to keep asking ourselves "Will they succeed?" and "How in the hell can they pull this one out of the firefight?" and ask those questions right along with Wade and Kyle.

This book is well worth reading just for the Army-tours-Hell story. Be aware, though, that Williamson bestows a great gift on anyone who reads through it. For he uses his talent to place the reader into the minds of his characters and shows you something that, when it occurs, is a glorious thing in a life. There is the moment when a boy CHOOSES to become a man, with all the responsibility being the latter entails, and you get to see it through HIS eyes. That passage alone is worth the trip.

Thank you, Michael.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More MAD MIKE MARCHES ON! (and getting better, too!), September 10, 2005

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Walt Boyes "Walt Boyes" (Aurora IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confirmed Kill (Mass Market Paperback)

Mike Williamson and I disagree about this book. I think it is the best of his Targets series so far, and he thinks it is the weakest. Where is it written that authors can analyze their own books correctly?

In this book, Williamson adds complexity to the already complex plots and characterizations of Kyle Monroe and Wade Curtis, his lone wolf Paladins from Targets of Opportunity and The Scope of Justice. Not only is their mission much less defined, they are also burdened by a desk warrior who seizes on the opportunity to make his bones in a "special ops" role.

Do they get their mission done? Do they carry their commanding burden (oops, I meant commanding officer) or do they frag him? Do the terrorists win one, or can Monroe and Curtis pull another one out of the bag?

And what will this mean to the introspective Monroe? How long can he go on doing this without going over the edge?

Well, I'm not going to tell you the answers. To find out, it will cost you. You will have to send Mad Mike Williamson money. And as he says, "Thank you. Never can get enough."

That's true of Williamson's writing too.

Walt Boyes
The Bananaslug. at Baen's Bar