From Publishers Weekly
The gripping second Strategic Solutions Inc. military thriller from Coyle and Tillman (after
Pandora's Legion) details the workings of a PMC, or private military contractor. The U.S. government, which wants plausible deniability if things go wrong, hires SSI to send a team to a corrupt, unstable Chad to train its army in counterinsurgency techniques. The authors dig into the contract negotiations, move through the operation's organization and planning stages, and open out into training and the operation itself. Things begin to fall apart when stopping a secret shipment of yellow cake uranium destined for Iran takes precedence over the SSI team's original mission. An overabundance of characters leaves little time for development, but the operational minutiae are absorbing (even the contract negotiations), and the action, which ranges from the desert to the high seas, explosive. The authors keep reader interest high from the intriguing beginning to the final promethean twist.
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Review
“Coyle is a master at high-tech suspense. He spins his story with such power that you’re swept along to the climactic finish.”--Clive Cussler
“Action-filled revenge fantasy for desk-bound Terminators.”—Kirkus Reviews on Harold Coyle’s Strategic Solutions: Pandora’s Legion
“The Tom Clancy of ground warfare.”--W.E.B. Griffin
“Coyle is best when he’s depicting soldiers facing death . . . He knows soldiers, and he understands the brotherhood-of-arms mystique that transcends national boundaries.”--The New York Times
“Nobody knows war like Harold Coyle, and nobody writes it better.”--Stephen Coonts
“Coyle has been dubbed the Tom Clancy of ground warfare, and it’s easy to see why. He focuses on the grunts because no matter how fancy the weapons are, eventually the military has to send in men to take and hold territory.”--New York Post
