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Hammerheads

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This was quite an interesting book. The U.S. government decides to create an agency to battle imported drugs from Colombia.The name of this unit is "Hammerheads". Of course you have a favorite Dale Brown hero Ian Hardcastle. The drug lords have hired a Cuban general to lead their smuggling effort. There is plenty of high flying action in this book. The new unit is tried again and again. The drug lords through their Cuban general prove to be a worthy advesary. The state of Florida is under the gun in this book. If you like jets and airplanes this is your book. Buy it, it is a good read.

Dale Brown had Homeland Defense pegged years before it became a reality. As I was reading this book I kept wondering what if this had been in place before 9/11 - would it have made a difference? The book was great, though predictable. It was hard to put down. I enjoyed it from cover to cover!

The first book I read from Dale Brown, and I must say I am unimpressed. My foremost problem are the characters are given slight history but mostly glossed over for never ending episodes of action and skirmishes. There's not one character that truly stand out to like or hate. The family problems of the main character, Ian Hardcastle, is poorly developed, especially considering that his son is also using drugs.

I sometimes think that this is Dale Brown just wrote this to cash in on the success of Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. The solution of blockading Florida alone is still rather simplistic in my opinion. Certainly it will deal a major blow to South American cartels initially. I'm already thinking the Yakuzas and Triads might take over importing of drugs.

It is simply the best Dale Brown book. A perfect balance between sci-techno and real life - a balance so often lost by many techo-writers Dale himself including.

Drug dealers are using force to put themselves up against the US authorities in a brilliant yarn often similar to Tom Clancy's CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER and Stephen Coonts's UNDER SIEGE. It's up to Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle, who sets up the Border Security Force, armed with an assortment of high-tech weaponry, to stop them. The drug barons' arms suply provides a good degree of competition too! Mercenary fighter pilots, anti-ship missles, man-portable missile launchers all bought from Argentina after the Falklands War and ex-Cuban MiGs! The pace is like any othe Dale Brown book - fast, furious and relentless, the action never stops and everything technical is well explained. Another winner!

I read it when it came out. It has stuck in my mind as a terrible technothriller. Actually, it ended my brief fling with technothrillers since I had already become disenchanted with Clancy. There is a lot of shock value in this, quite a bit of hurrahs, and generally just a bad idea central to the book.

As usual, politics is poorly handled.

This book has lived up to the AM radio interview given by the author. Some of the ideas presented herein should be carefully considered by our border control officials and all three branches of our government. I will recommend my Congressman read this book and give his feedback. We are vunerable to terrorism through our porous borders and we should take a strong stand to protect ourselves. I highly recommend this read.

My favorite of Brown's books, this story brings back all of the usual characters in a different setting. The one drawback is too much emphasis on the V-22, portraying it as the only option.

Probably the best book I have read, I litrally could not put it down! I had nearly no sleep for the 3 days it took me to read it.

This Dale Brown novel definetly wasn't his best, and at times even unrealistic (C'mon, renegade drug dealers with F-5 fighters and antiship missiles?). Still it provided some interesting insights into the V-22 Osprey aircraft/helicopter hybrid, which also appears in subsequent Dale Brown books, and it introduces us to the eccentric (and likable) protagonist U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle, who will reappear in Brown's eighth novel, Storming Heaven. The action was pretty good, but still I wouldn't recommend this D.B. novel over his others like Day of the Cheetah or Night of the Hawk.