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This review is from: The Country Team (Hardcover)
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This huge, explosive novel of war, peace, and the ever-changing limbo in between is bound to have widespread repercussions, sure to be one of the most hotly discussed - pro and con - of our day. Robin Moore, whose 'Green Berets' has sold over three and one-half million copies, has fashioned, in 'The Country Team,' a dynamic, sweeping panorama of a strategic country in Asia rapidly falling under communist influence. The country, Mituyan, is mythical but typical. What Robin Moor reveals in the story of this land is essentially true of almost all the small countries of the world that are sorely beset by communist pressures and infiltrations. Like its celebrated predecessor, 'The Country Team' is fiction, and, like 'The Green Berets,' it is solidly rooted infact. Any "old Asia hand" will acknowledge the accuracy and truth of the conditions and conflicts that Moore presents - the politics, the treachery, the torture, the illicit and exotic love, the drug trade, and, ultimately, the price paid by the people of the country. The central character of the story is Mike Forrester, American soldier-of-fortune plantation owner who is married to a Mituyan woman. He is drawn into the fight to preserve Mituyan's freedom when his plantation is sabotaged by terroist guerrillas; and, as a secret agent for the Americans, he becomes thoroughly involved in the struggle. Because he has major status and is well known throughout the country, he is able to participate in palace intrigues, assassination plots, dangerous missions, delicate diplomacy, and political coups. But chiefly, he uses his intimate knowledge of the nature of the people and the country to further the cause of Mituyan's freedom, and at great personal risk battles the guerrillas in the cities, in the mountains, in the poppylands, and on the rivers to strike telling blows. But though Mike Forrester is the hero, this book is essentially about the operations of the Country Team of Mituyan. The Country Team is a basic U.S. operational unit the world over, designed to keep each trouble-spot nation is Asia, Africa, and Latin America on the side of the free world. It consists, in each country, of fivemen who, too often, work at crosspurposes: the ambassador, the general in charge of military assistance, the U.S.I.A. representative, the head of AID, and the CIA station chief. Each eports independently to Washington whenever disagreements arise- and they often do - and internal wrangling can get white hot. What Robin Moore has done is this huge multifaceted novel is to unfold in revealing dramatic incident and detail the entire picture - mistakes as well as successes - of the way we conduct our foreign policy. Unflinching in its exposure of communist terror techniques, 'The Country Team' is a book unashamed of our heroes and our triumphs. Yet it is a book that is fearlessly honest about the failures of American military and security operations. It is bound to be news -this year and for many years to come.
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