Echo Five (Paperback)

by David Chacko (Author)

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...keeps you glued to your seat with his non-stop action and excellent storytelling ability. Would make an excellent movie. -- Michele E. Davis, ArmchairInterviews.com

A breathtaking read, one cannot help but wonder whether Mr. Chacko is prophet, insider, or perhaps a little of both. -- Sylvia Cochran, RoundTableReviews.com

Product Description
Echo Five takes place at the end of the world where terror is the norm and the heat arrives from the rim of hell. Jason Ender, who has been assigned to debrief high value terrorists in the Horn of Africa, finds himself caught in a rising tide of violence that begins with the death of a young female interrogator--Echo Five--and ends with the discovery of a plot that threatens to pull the plug on the petroleum lifeline to the West.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Foremost Press (January 25, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0978970470
• ISBN-13: 978-0978970475
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• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,079,427 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Next Front, February 19, 2008

By	The Sage of Morton St. "Model" (New York City) - See all my reviews

Echo Five is the third novel in the Jason Ender series. As with the first two, Less Than a Shadow and The Peacock Angel, this one is ahead of the curve in letting the reader see the inside of the "secret wars of America." Instead of danger in the Middle East, Echo Five goes south to the Horn of Africa, the area bin Laden calls "The Third Front." Here, the ferment of poverty and chaos breed terrorism in numbers. Added to it are the conflicting interests within our government, where the War on Terror has given way to a War of Turf. These conflicts seem to have resulted in the suicide of an interrogator--Echo Five. Or have they? Terrorism seems to be far in the past. Or is it? This novel lets us know all the answers in David Chacko's usual explosive way.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Deception in Spades, August 3, 2008

By	E. Ulusan "Time Piece" (Earth) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the second David Chacko book I've read, but it won't be the last. Echo Five begins as a spy novel with all the heads counted, from the boys in Washington to the men in the field. But that's deceptive. As soon as Jason Ender hits the ground in the Horn of Africa, he learns that what he needs to complete his mission--a young army lieutenant and interrogator called Echo Five--has committed suicide. Ender is suspicious, and his suspicions turn the story from espionage to mystery as he takes it on himself to find the reasons why Carolyn Fordyce died. Sleuthing his way through the modern armed forces, Ender tracks the real killer as well as others responsible for her death. He puts himself against the power structure to do it, balancing his career and the truth. When Ender's mission and Echo Five's killer come together, it makes a shocking and disturbing conclusion. It's the last deception, and the best.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A thriller well worth your time, March 7, 2008

By	armchairinterviews.com (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

In the midst of the writers' strike, what the Screenwriter's Guild needed was a great writer such as Chacko in their back pocket. While self-published, this book is a testament to a prolific writer that keeps you glued to your seat with his non-stop action and excellent storytelling ability. While this is the third in Chacko's series revolving around interrogator (also called "echos") Jason Ender, there isn't much back history repeated like you'd read in a Harry Potter novel.

Ender is sent to, what bin Laden called, The Third Front, also known as the Horn of Africa, to work with Echo Five, an Arabic translator, in order to question prisoner 91. Lt. Hours before Ender de-planes, Carolyn Fordyce kills herself at the self-sufficient cell community of government employees and civilians that are working for the same cause in the heat of sun, and surrounded by terrorism and subversive plots thicker than a police officers donut-filled stomach.

Fordyce's suicide (a.k.a. Echo Five), turns Enders normally curious brain on fire with a burning passion to discover the truth about what happened to her "behind the wire." What he discovers is a conspiracy that involves government contractors who work for The Donner Part; a sexual situation involving a Somalian woman who was a local translator for any echo on staff that might need her; and fraudulent activity that goes all the way up the chain of command. Chacko is a tour de force writer in a world filled with constant conflict, war, genocide and jihad.

Armchair Interviews says: Engaging, interesting, this espionage thriller is a book you can't put down. Would make an excellent movie.