SWORD, THE [Import] [Hardcover]

Daniel Easterman (Author)

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• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Allison & Busby (September 24, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 074908121X
• ISBN-13: 978-0749081218
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,772,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars YIELDING THE SWORD OF PROPHESY, July 31, 2008

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This review is from: SWORD, THE (Hardcover)

Daniel Easterman [Dennis MacEoin] is an Islamic studies academic (and a former Bahaist) who has always published novels with a realistic grasp of international power games. And real people getting caught in the gears of said games. When it comes to near East political yarns, there is simply no contest: Easterman delivers.

As with other novels, THE SWORD is page turner with each crisis resulting in an even higher level of urgency. The balance of the world seems to hang on every turn the hero takes and every bullet he fires. The main problem with Easterman's novels (ever since the The Seventh Sanctuary), is the writer's eagerness to kill off main characters or their loved ones. Sometimes these deaths serve as character motivation. Sometimes they are just pointless.

Not for light reading but recommended.