Force of Eagles - Softcover

Herman Jr, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 045054852X ISBN 13: 9780450548529

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 1991

Synopsis

The sequel to "The Warbirds", this is the story of a rescue mission to save 282 POWs from an Iranian prison. Colonel Rupert Stansell heads an unbeatable team and he must prepare himself for a raid that is too secret for his men to know and too dangerous for his men to fail.

About this title

About the Author:

A former weapons system operator, Richard Herman was a member of the United States Air Force for twenty-one years, until he retired in 1983 with the rank of major. He is the author of ten previous novels, including The Warbirds, Power Curve, Against All Enemies, Edge of Honor, and The Trojan Sea, all published by Avon Books. Herman currently lives and works in Gold River, a suburb of Sacramento, California.

From Publishers Weekly:

Set in the immediate future, this sequel to The Warbirds tells of a mission to rescue 300 Air Force prisoners left in Iranian hands at the end of the first novel. Starting slowly, with many flashbacks to its predecessor and confusing shifts of scene, the story finds its pace once the operation itself gets under way. Ample and convincing air and ground action animates the 30-day enterprise, which involves a small force of Rangers, supported by fighters and gunships. Herman, a retired Air Force pilot, handles technical details and interservice politics with convincing finesse. His characters are two-dimensional, but sustain their plot roles adequately without getting in the way of the action that is the book's focus. Refreshingly, the rescue plan depends for success on neither an unlikely perfection of execution nor an implausibly incompetent enemy. In taking great pains to show the dangers in high-level micro-management of fast-moving special operations, however, Herman diminishes his argument by overkill. Nevertheless, fans of techno-thrillers and military procedurals will find this a good read.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 045054852X
• ISBN 13: 9780450548529
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400