When the National Security Agency intercepts and decodes an obscure email message indicating a severe threat to the US, the American President considers his options. No Navy task force can solve this problem; it's too complicated for Delta Force and too delicate for the Marines. A B-2 bomber will only make things worse. What if, he asks the NSA Director, the same technology that made the interception possible could be used as an offensive weapon? What if the NSA turned from crypto-spy to crypto-warrior? Armed with satellites, ships, planes, and an array of sophisticated hardware - much of which it invented itself - the NSA proves as competent at covert action as it is at spying. With members of all services working closely with the agency, there is no place on earth it can't reach. Success leads to a permanent NSA Group that acts directly for the NSA Director. But the high-wire nature of its missions and the secretive, ego-driven culture of the agency means disaster always looms nearby...
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Stephen Coonts is a former naval aviator who flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. Since his debut FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER he has become one of America's most promising writers of military fiction. Jim DeFelice is the bestseeling author of two thrillers Coyote Bird and War Breaker. But he is best known for his collaborative work with - amongst others - Dale Brown. Dreamland which he wrote with Brown was a New York Times bestseller.
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On the crackling edge of high tech - a fun, fun book,
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This review is from: Deep Black (Deep Black 1) (Hardcover)
This first installment of the "Deep Black" series, although published seven years ago, still seems to live on the crackling edge of high tech. An NSA team races around Siberia, first to inspect the wreck of a top-secret spy plane, then to free a prisoner - and finally back to Moscow, where an attempted coup is about to start. And which side is the US on?
The agents constantly pull futuristic gadgets out of their bags and pockets - any number of video cameras, sensors, explosives, handheld computers, futuristic guns, even electronic lockpicks. Backing them up are the whole array of NSA technology, including robot planes and satellite-launched probes - some of them actually controlled by near-teenagers back in Washington using all their video game skills as music pounds through their ear buds. You can't tell how much of this is real, and we don't know where Coonts and DeFelice get their inside dope, but it all feels real. What's really good about this novel, though, is the characterization. The sharp edges of these new characters really come through. Charlie Dean, once a Vietnam-era Marine sniper, now finds himself working with young tech-savvy agents half his age. He's from the era of tough guys with guns, endurance and smarts. They're from the era of the Internet and ever-evolving rapid circuitry. Dean doesn't trust it much, or trust the kids' trust in it, and meanwhile they resent this dinosaur from the 20th century thrust upon them as an observer on a sensitive mission. Lia DeFrancesca is such a bitch on wheels her extreme attractiveness must be the only reason the men around her don't kill her. That - and that she's a good man in a tight situation. Team leader Tommy Karr laughs his way through dangerous moments in the way only a 23-year-old can - all the while making the right calls in split seconds. Back in Washington, NSA mathematician Johnny Bib hovers on the brink of insanity as he cracks codes and tries to tease out the deeper meanings. It's his big boss, William Rubens, who gets the best ride here. The authors do a superb job showing the NSA's deputy director posturing and infighting as he tries to advance his unit while anticipating and heading off the flank attacks of his bureaucratic rivals. Coldly brilliant, on the fine line between intuition and an almost reptilian paranoia, Rubens must stay one step ahead of the plots, and plots within plots, both abroad and at home. The characters' rough edges and the breathless pace of the new technology surrounding the spy game combine to make this a fine, fine book.
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Lots of fun,
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This review is from: Deep Black (Deep Black 1) (Hardcover)
The first book in a really fast paced, high tech series. If you like futurist technology and spy novels then you'll love this book.
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am about half way through the book, I like the charcters but the story is kind of slow compared to the Jake Grafton series.
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