Threat Level Black [Mass Market Paperback]

Jim DeFelice (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2005

A Simon & Schuster eBook

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Jim DeFelice may be the best technothriller writer doing it today."

-- Stephen Coonts

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

About the Author

Jim DeFelice has written more than a dozen novels, including the New York Times bestselling Dale Brown's Dreamland and Stephen Coonts' Deep Black series. His other novels include Cyclops One and Threat Level Black, published by Pocket Star Books.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Star (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743464230
• ISBN-13: 978-0743464239
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,321,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More of what makes DeFelice the Schwarzenegger of techno-thrillers, December 22, 2005

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Michael Blitz (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Threat Level Black (Mass Market Paperback)

DeFelice's books are always good stories. Threat Level Black invites you into the cold steel world of hot conflict. I don't read DeFelice to restart the world's turbine; I read him because his books obey the first law of well-told tales: they provide temporary transportation from here to there. TLB is a lot of fun, with odd-lot characters and a compelling plot. I read the book while on a flight from NY to LA, finishing it just after the drop of landing gear. Now that's transportation.

2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hey, I just might ..., July 28, 2005

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E. T. Ashworth "tompaine47" (Richmond, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Threat Level Black (Mass Market Paperback)

The previous reviewer sited some examples of poor editing that are valid. Surely they must be embarrassing to the author and the editor.

We need not make a snide remark about readers with too much time on their hands, need we?

This did what it was supposed to do -- it whisked me away in a story, with people I cared about, an outcome I rooted for, and killed a couple of lunch hours grave yard dead, which is all I ask from a work like this. Thanks, Mr. DeFelice!

Sure, there were shills, placekeeping characters, those that exist to deliver one line. I'm not sure about Howe's friend, Alice, for instance. Awfully fickle, that one, and inexplicably so. But, hey, people are that way.

I'll buy the next one, just to keep up. Recommended.

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Too many loose ends, March 17, 2005

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Jas B (Bellevue, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Threat Level Black (Mass Market Paperback)

A few inconsistencies: a guy being killed one way and then the killing referred to by Kuong as being something else entirely, a sentence attributed to Howe when he wasn't present and Blitz was the obvious speaker, among others. The witty sarcasm of Fisher helped keep the entertainment level up where the facile plot manipulations and shallow character developement would sometimes elicit a "Say what?" The book left me feeling like I had just seen the first installment of "24 Hours" or something. I don't feel compelled to buy the next one to find out how everyone's coming along or if Fisher is able to defeat the anti-smoking nazis.