The Specialists: Plunder [Mass Market Paperback]

Chet Cunningham (Author)

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From Publishers Weekly

Cunningham (War Cry) introduces a new series featuring the Specialists, an elite, international team fighting against terrorism, corruption, drug cartels and other evil. When the six Specialists are sent to Berlin to investigate the suspicious death of George Silokowski, an American, it becomes clear that the victim was trying to track down a missing fortune (part of tens of millions of dollars siezed by the Nazis in WWII) that belonged to his Jewish grandfather. The Specialists, whose trigger-happy members have been hand-picked from the U.S. Navy, CIA and FBI by an eccentric millionaire, must find out who was involved in the Nazi crime, where they are now, what happened to the missing money and why Silokowski and others hot on the trail of the plunderers ended up dead. The trail eventually leads to the heads of some of the most powerful corporations in Germany and to a one-eyed hit man against whom Specialist Wade Thorne has a personal vendetta. While there are interesting twists, the story is marred by too many coincidences. (Dec.)

Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 055358071X
• ISBN-13: 978-0553580716
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,192,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Reads like an episode of "Mission Impossible", December 8, 1999

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This review is from: The Specialists: Plunder (Mass Market Paperback)

In Kettering, England lies Castle Baldemere, the home of American billionaire J. August Marshall. Although reasonably famous for his entrepreneurial successes and his philanthropic donations of money and time, Marshall is better known in the gray world inhabited by spies and secret agents. For a decade, Marshall headed up the CIA, but quit when he felt his agency had too many bosses pulling its strings for personal advantage.

Marshall formed an elite counter-terrorist organization THE SPECILAISTS that consists of six agents who will do whatever is needed to complete the job. Currently, the group is in Berlin investigating why George, a cross-country motorcyclist, had an accident while riding his bike. George was seeking information on the person who accepted a bribe to get his Jewish grandfather into Switzerland in 1942. The team learns that a special German squad made millions in exchange to spiriting people out of Nazi Germany. These bribes allowed this group to start businesses just after the war. Today their companies make up twenty-five percent of the Germany's economy. The SPECILAISTS have two goals: (1) Obtain reparations for the descendants of the ripped-off Jews; and (2) Stop the appointment of one of them from being named Minister of Finance.

THE SPECIALISTS: PLUNDER reads more like an episode of the TV show Mission Impossible. The story centers on six individuals with no government sanctioning going up against seemingly impossible odds to right a wrong. Except for a bit on Marshall, the other characters (team members, the German bribe squad, and the victims) never are developed. Readers who want action, action, and more action will not miss that at all because Chet Cunningham provides that and even more excitement.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Specialists - Plunder, October 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Specialists: Plunder (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was a wounderful read. Fast paced with a lot of action. Well done. I am looking forward to the next book.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Made for Hollywood, January 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Specialists: Plunder (Mass Market Paperback)

Cheezy dialogue, obvious plot, predictible characters, gratuitous violence, completely out of touch with what goes on with the real special ops people, this has all the ingredients that appeal to those who rely on Hollywood for their "literary" venue. Yes, this is fiction, yes fiction is supposed to be entertaining. But what age group is the author trying to appeal to?