EAGLE STATION (ROLLING THUNDER\STEEL TIGER\PHANTOM LEADER\EAGLE STATION) (Kindle Edition)

by MARK BERENT (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
The fourth novel in this Vietnam series (after Phantom Leader ) takes place during the fall of 1968. As a desperate President Johnson seeks to purchase goodwill by halting the bombing of North Vietnam, fighter pilot Court Bannister and Special Forces colonel Wolf Lochert team up to protect Eagle Station, a clandestine radar installation in northern Laos. These series regulars are joined by new faces, including a helicopter pilot and a para-rescue specialist, in a sequence of adventures that begins with a hair-raising aerial rescue and concludes with hand-to-hand combat against a Soviet team sent to capture the radar station. A strong subplot focuses on U.S. efforts to establish contact with POWs in North Vietnam. The author believes an intensified air campaign would have won the war and despises the politicians who refused to allow it, and his message occasionally gets in the way of his story. But the action scenes are first-rate throughout, displaying the command of detail Berent's readers have come to expect.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Kirkus Reviews
Berent's US Air Force saga (Rolling Thunder, Steel Tiger, Phantom Leader) continues, taking his pilots and commandos into Laos and a late-1968 battle to protect a radar outpost. With only a few weeks to go before the presidential election, both the North Vietnamese and Lyndon Johnson are working on plans to swing the vote the way they want it to go. They both like Hubert Humphrey. President Johnson is getting ready to pull the plug on bombing north of the Demilitarized Zone, and the North Vietnamese are trying to choreograph the ``confession'' of a downed airman with a military action against the American radar base in Laos that controls much of the sky over their country. Recurring heroes Court Bannister and Wolf Lochert, pilot and supercommando, respectively, head for the threatened installation, pausing only for a little short, sweet, dalliance in Thailand. Meanwhile, fellow recurring hero and currently imprisoned pilot Algernon A. ``Flak'' Apple endures near-fatal beatings and psychological torture after almost escaping Hanoi. And Shawn Bannister, radical journalist, recurring villain and half-brother to Court Bannister, heads for Hanoi, unaware that he is being manipulated by Hanoi and Washington concurrently. If everything works out the way Hanoi plans, there will be dramatic revelations from the hospital in Hanoi at the very moment that either the North Vietnamese Army or their partners in socialist solidarity, the Soviets, overrun the radar. There is, by the way, a pretty but rather loose American lady hanging around the radar controls swilling gin and ogling the gents. Open your eyes for the flight and fight scenes, close them for the sex and politics. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 648 KB
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
• Publisher: PUTNAM; ONE edition (October 8, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001HSNB6E
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #96,360 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Once I started reading I couldn't put it down!, April 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Eagle Station (Mass Market Paperback)

It's been a number of years since I've read Eagle Station, but I've read all of Mr. Berents' books and they were spectacular. The detail with which he describes the characters and scenes made you feel as if you were actually in the field, the enemy attacking you. You could almost hear the gun fire and feel the battle rage. His technique even let you inside the characters minds and understand what they might have gone through. I met Mr. Berents at a book signing at Davis Monthan AB in 1990-91. He autographed Rolling Thunder for me, complete with a Jane Fonda toilet paper book mark! I read Rolling Thunder on the flight to Tuscon from Indianapolis. All Mr. Berent's books are great reads, I wish he would write more!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of five in series. best description of air war in RVN, July 21, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Eagle Station (Mass Market Paperback)

This is number four of a five book series that follows the adventures of several pilots and special forces personnel through the war in Viet Nam. For those of us who were pilots in that war, it is the best and most accurate description of our experiences. Each book of the series seems both historically and otherwise factually accurate. All in all, one of the best "reads" to be had since Tom Clancy started writing

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars first rate, written by a true flier that was there, September 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Eagle Station (Mass Market Paperback)

I have read all the Mark Berent books and find them all to be first rate and full of action, interesting people and story twists. An excellent read.