forces in peacekeeping and nation-building. Coyle's cold-eyed portrayal of an American battalion demoralized by repeated ambushes offers a welcome corrective to post-Desert Storm triumphalism, but his storyline essentially recycles Vietnam War issues and avoids such end-of-the-century concerns as the use of U.S. Lane demands that she face a court-martial Dixon is caught between allegiance to the truth and the need to support the chain of command. Sword Point book by Harold Coyle ReadingRewards: Earn 2x points on all Collectibles ISBN: 178445642X ISBN13: 9781784456429 My Fashion Studio: Clothes Designer: Cut, Color, Make & Create by Harold Coyle and Howard Coyle See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.19 Paperback 24.73 Mass Market Paperback 3.59 - 5. The crisis peaks when infantry Captain Nancy Kozak overrides Lane's micromanagement of a firefight and insults him over the radio. By the time Brigadier-General Scott Dixon, familiar to readers of The Ten Thousand and Bright Star, arrives to evaluate the mission one year later, he finds the insurgency growing ever more formidable and the 11th Air crippled by the incompetence of its commander, Major General Charles Lane. has dispatched its (fictional) 11th Air Assault Division to aid Colombia's unstable government in suppressing a Marxist insurgency and, while it's there, to try and damage the region's booming drug trade as well. Coyle's prose is often clumsy, the chapter-head quotes (from Napoleon, Sherman et al.) are as pertinent as fortune cookies and the ending manages to be sentimental and ungrammatical at the same time.In the near future of Coyle's latest techno-thriller, the U.S. And confusion arrives with the authentic alphabet soup: lots of info about MRRs, RDEs, BDUs, etc.
Interest is not sustained by the book's undeniable authenticity, which has all the style of a training manual. But all the characters are paper-thin and all sound equally earnest and boring.
The narrative consists mainly of set pieces on back-and-forth desert fighting, flashing from one side to another and featuring some continuing characters. There is a little suspense about whether Iran, fighting both ''satans,'' will detonate an atomic bomb, and somewhat less about whether the U.S.S.R. ''places its trust in the ability of the individual soldier and his leaders.'' We are not surprised, therefore, when his thriller picks the winner of a two-month war between the superpowers in Iran. Army officer Coyle ( Team Yankee ) says that the Red Army treasures ''conformity and discipline'' while the U.S.
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