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Seal Team Seven 09: War Cry

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This book is very good. Lots of action in this book. They are in a lot of mission in this book.

When N. Korea invades the South, the SEALs are sent to push them back. This book has a lot of action with the men going on several jobs for Stroh. It also shows a deep sense of character as the subplot develops between Miguel and Joe Douglas. These subplots are what gives each book a new feel. Very good on the part of the writer.

Reading the back cover synopsis made me think this novel would be great. The North Koreans invading South Korea, and taking the Vice President hostage. Well, the SEALs in this novel take on several missions into enemy territory. The first mission is to rescue the VP, but it only takes a chapter or two to do that. Too easy. Felt this novel could have been better written and better plotted.

Well, the VP is safely back in Seoul. In the meantime, Don Stroh and the CIA send the SEALs on various missions into North Korea. One to destroy a remote radio transmission station that the U.S. and S. Korea do not want the NK's to get their hands on. Another mission has them rescuing a general and several CO's in NK territory.

But the main mission eventually to try and end this mini war between North and South is to take out the 3 North Korean generals managing the political/military scene of their country.

One fascinating part of the book, was a conflict between Seals, Fernandez and Douglas. They get into fistacuffs a couple of times, and are threatened by j.g. Dewitt that they would be shipped out of the SEALs and to Adak, Alaska. Well, it gets interesting toward the end of the novel, when the SEALs are in a firefight with some North Korean patrol and Douglas is ordered to cover Fernandez. Well he doesn't. Fernandez is seriously wounded. Also, a couple of other SEALs get grounded by wounds, and you may not see two or three of them in the next novel. At least, I'm not expecting too. Hope the author brings back Magic Brown.

Action packed from front to end. It was like 4 or 5 books all rolled into one, with all of the different missions that had to be completed. A must read for the Seal Team Seven fan!!!! I have read all of the Seal Team Seven books, except for Direct Action. I can't find it. All of them are four and five star books. This one is excellent.

A renewel of the Korean War always makes for interesting fodder. However, Douglass could have handled it better. Also, better editing was needed. I noticed too many errors and inaccuracies for the standard paperback. The action scenes were OK. The missions got tougher as the book went on. Still I think the SEALS should have encountered a tad more difficulties. Did not get a real enough sense of the danger they were in. Plus character development was really lacking. The book was basically a series of missions the SEAL Team went on in Korea. It would have been better to have one central plot with a few other little missions thrown in on the side. Concentrating a three or four of the SEAL characters would have helped. All in all, this book had the markings that it was rushed into publication.