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Best Action-Adventure Novel I Ever Read, March 12, 2002
This review is from: The Takers : Compelling Action in the Spirit of Raiders of the Lost Ark (Mass Market Paperback)
Why is this book out of print? At least there's an audio cassette version still available. The Takers was the first in a projected series that never got beyond the second book, and more's the pity. Ahern writes taut action/suspense, and The Takers rolls along like a freight train. Ex-CIA special operations head Steiglitz and his psycho-daughter Sonia are in a race against heroes Josh Culhane and Fanny Mulrooney - he an action-adventure novelist and she an occult writer, presently helping out the CIA - to attain an ancient sea map that will theoretically lead them to the lost continent of Atlantis. Several dead bodies, exotic locations and hair-raising scrapes later, they find what they are looking for beneath the ice of the South Pole: an ancient flying saucer base, replete with still-working technology from the stars. The story and handling are more adult than usual for this type of thing, and at least as good as anything Michael Crichton or Preston and Childs have ever written. Jerry Ahern, where the hell you been, man? Write more of these things!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
PAGE TURNER, May 16, 2000
This review is from: The Takers : Compelling Action in the Spirit of Raiders of the Lost Ark (Mass Market Paperback)
THE TAKERS WAS AN EXECLLENT BOOK. IT HAD ACTION, ADVENTURE WITH A HISTORICAL FICTION ANGLE THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE. THE PACE WAS FAST AND KEPT YOU TURNING THE PAGES TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book...Would have been a great series., November 19, 2009
This review is from: The Takers : Compelling Action in the Spirit of Raiders of the Lost Ark (Mass Market Paperback)
The Takers is a book that really deserved a series. I read this first in high school and really enjoyed it. As a previous reviewer noted, it is filled with in-depth shooting details that may bore the average reader. Simple to explain: Jerry Ahern is a writer and producer of various shooting sports magazine articles and at one time was CEO of Detonics. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he had his own line of shooting accessories (such as holsters and knife sheaths.)
The story line seems to have been co-opted over the last 2 decades, insofar that every sci-fi show (the Stargate franchise, for example) and some series' just about included the "alien technology left on earth" storyline.
The "communications" between Josh and his deceased brother are just eerie enough to raise one's hairs at the back of the neck and add additional suspense.
I beleive this is one book that could definitely be brought back into print. Unfortunately, as noted above, quite a few authors have latched onto the formula, but when the book was written, computers, not to mention the Internet, were not available for research, so all of it had to be doen the old fashioned way.
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