Echo Five [Paperback]

David Chacko (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 25, 2008

"Echo Five" takes place at the end of the world where terror is the norm and the heat arrives from the rim of hell. Jason Ender, who has been assigned to debrief high value terrorists in the Horn of Africa, finds himself caught in a rising tide of violence that begins with the death of a young female interrogator-Echo Five-and ends with the discovery of a plot that threatens to pull the plug on the petroleum lifeline to the West.

Editorial Reviews

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...keeps you glued to your seat with his non-stop action and excellent storytelling ability. Would make an excellent movie. -- Michele E. Davis, ArmchairInterviews.com

A breathtaking read, one cannot help but wonder whether Mr. Chacko is prophet, insider, or perhaps a little of both. -- Sylvia Cochran, RoundTableReviews.com

From the Publisher

Echo Five, the third novel in the Jason Ender series is another blistering ride through the badlands of espionage and terrorism. The two previous novels in the series are Less Than a Shadow and The Peacock Angel. This time the action is literally blistering, as the novel is set in one of the hottest places on earth--a military installation at the Horn of Africa that guards the strategic Red Sea.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Foremost Press (January 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978970470
• ISBN-13: 978-0978970475
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,112,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

David Chacko has written nineteen novels. Many are in the espionage and mystery genres with occasional outbreaks into common sense. He can usually be found in Istanbul or New York. The consistent factor here is that both places have good food, beautiful women, and memorable views of the sea.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Next Front, February 19, 2008

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The Sage of Morton St. "Model" (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Echo Five (Paperback)

Echo Five is the third novel in the Jason Ender series. As with the first two, Less Than a Shadow and The Peacock Angel, this one is ahead of the curve in letting the reader see the inside of the "secret wars of America." Instead of danger in the Middle East, Echo Five goes south to the Horn of Africa, the area bin Laden calls "The Third Front." Here, the ferment of poverty and chaos breed terrorism in numbers. Added to it are the conflicting interests within our government, where the War on Terror has given way to a War of Turf. These conflicts seem to have resulted in the suicide of an interrogator--Echo Five. Or have they? Terrorism seems to be far in the past. Or is it? This novel lets us know all the answers in David Chacko's usual explosive way.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deception in Spades, August 3, 2008

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E. Ulusan "Time Piece" (Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Echo Five (Paperback)

This is the second David Chacko book I've read, but it won't be the last. Echo Five begins as a spy novel with all the heads counted, from the boys in Washington to the men in the field. But that's deceptive. As soon as Jason Ender hits the ground in the Horn of Africa, he learns that what he needs to complete his mission--a young army lieutenant and interrogator called Echo Five--has committed suicide. Ender is suspicious, and his suspicions turn the story from espionage to mystery as he takes it on himself to find the reasons why Carolyn Fordyce died. Sleuthing his way through the modern armed forces, Ender tracks the real killer as well as others responsible for her death. He puts himself against the power structure to do it, balancing his career and the truth. When Ender's mission and Echo Five's killer come together, it makes a shocking and disturbing conclusion. It's the last deception, and the best.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A thriller well worth your time, March 7, 2008

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Armchair Interviews (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Echo Five (Paperback)

In the midst of the writers' strike, what the Screenwriter's Guild needed was a great writer such as Chacko in their back pocket. While self-published, this book is a testament to a prolific writer that keeps you glued to your seat with his non-stop action and excellent storytelling ability. While this is the third in Chacko's series revolving around interrogator (also called "echos") Jason Ender, there isn't much back history repeated like you'd read in a Harry Potter novel.

Ender is sent to, what bin Laden called, The Third Front, also known as the Horn of Africa, to work with Echo Five, an Arabic translator, in order to question prisoner 91. Lt. Hours before Ender de-planes, Carolyn Fordyce kills herself at the self-sufficient cell community of government employees and civilians that are working for the same cause in the heat of sun, and surrounded by terrorism and subversive plots thicker than a police officers donut-filled stomach.

Fordyce's suicide (a.k.a. Echo Five), turns Enders normally curious brain on fire with a burning passion to discover the truth about what happened to her "behind the wire." What he discovers is a conspiracy that involves government contractors who work for The Donner Part; a sexual situation involving a Somalian woman who was a local translator for any echo on staff that might need her; and fraudulent activity that goes all the way up the chain of command. Chacko is a tour de force writer in a world filled with constant conflict, war, genocide and jihad.

Armchair Interviews says: Engaging, interesting, this espionage thriller is a book you can't put down. Would make an excellent movie.