Sledgehammer [Mass Market Paperback]

Walter Wager (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2000

During World War II, five men operated as an elite OSS unit behind German lines. Experts in guerrilla warfare, they were some of the war's most secret heroes, their identities concealed or altered for each mission. Even now, they are hidden in plain sight, their old skills only lightly concealed under new personalities: crusading journalist, high-paid Hollywood stuntman, mild-mannered psychology professor, money man for a major casino gambling operation, and the billionaire who is the second most eligible bachelor in America.

The bonds of guilt and gratitude forged in wartime still hold. When the journalist is murdered, his four friends are determined to find out who killed him, and why. This death will be avenged.

The code name for this operation: Sledgehammer.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Forge; Reprint edition (2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812510380
• ISBN-13: 978-0812510386
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 4.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,798,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hard to put down, May 26, 2000

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T D Jones - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sledgehammer (Mass Market Paperback)

I bought this book 20 years ago and must have read it at least once a year since. Every time I pick it up I get drawn back in to the characters and plot.

Wager has such a cinematic style I can't understand why this has never been a major film. Although considering the mess they made of Telefon and Twilight's Last Gleaming perhaps its just as well.

A group of WW2 SOE veterans use their training to avenge the murder of a comrade in a mob-run town. Taking the view that it is "enemy held territory" they take on the mob boss and the corrupt local police and recruit the local citizens as a resistance army.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an exciting story by an excellent author, May 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sledgehammer (Mass Market Paperback)

this book is a reissue of an excellent book. A group of highly trained adventurers from WWII come together to avenge the death of a colleague. They return from normal lives they had assumed and set about trying to reform a corrupt city.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dated and Dumb, May 27, 2005

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N. Bilmes "bookaholic" (Vernon, CT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sledgehammer (Hardcover)

Of all Wager's books that I've read, this is by far the worst. The Tunnel, Otto's Boy, and 58 Minutes were exciting reads with good plots and page turning narrative. This book falls far short of those other two with its wafer-thin characters and annoyingly condescending tone. Also, for an action-thriller this book has a lot of space taken up by Wager's political opinions and societal observations of late 1960's America, which is when this book was written.

I only recommend this book for die-hard Wager fans. And, yes, that pun was intended.