The Warlord: A Jackson Monroe Novel - Hardcover

Dickinson, Richard H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1590710177 ISBN 13: 9781590710173

Publisher: Rugged Land, 2004

Synopsis

A fictional answer to Black Hawk Down, The Warlord is a pulsating military thriller set against today’s special ops war in Afghanistan.
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Meet three-star general, Jackson Monroe, a character very much based on four-star general, Colin Powell.

What would happen if a polished middle-aged man like Powell found himself shot down in the mountains of Afghanistan and surrounded by the enemy?

Can a “soft” political general who has spent decades inside the corridors of Washington now become a hardened survivor, killer, and commander inside a war zone?

Loosely based on Xenophon’s The Persian Expedition, The Warlord tells the story of former sniper Jackson Monroe (The Silent Men) a man who must follow and then lead a ragtag unit against adversary after adversary as they try to make their way across hundreds of miles of hostile territory.

Evading, feinting, fighting, and then avenging, Monroe finally finds the commando he once was and the commander he always wanted to be.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard H. Dickinson is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.  After taking advantage of a unique opportunity to be commissioned in the United States Air Force, he spent twelve years as a hurricane hunter and air traffic controller.  His duties included penetrating into the eyes of forty-five hurricanes, flying into radioactive debris clouds from nuclear explosions, and surveilling incoming Russian ICBMs over the North Pacific. Author of The Silent Men, he lives in Seattle with his wife, Amy Solomon.

From Publishers Weekly:

Any thriller that's advertised as "a fictional answer to Black Hawk Down," claims to be "loosely based on Xenophon's The Persian Expedition" and says that its lead character is "very much" modeled on Colin Powell would appear to be asking for trouble. But Dickinson manages to satisfy with a smoothly written and painstakingly researched story about an overage warrior suddenly plunked down into the middle of the war in Afghanistan. Jackson Monroe, the Vietnam sniper hero of The Silent Men, is now a four-star general and political insider. He is forced into real action when a diplomatic trip is interrupted by the assassination of a leading Afghan warlord, and Monroe has to take control of his team's only remaining helicopter. Long unused, his 30-year-old survival skills click into place, but are they enough to keep the general and his men alive over—and in—enemy territory? The Special Forces troops with him doubt it—as the lone civilian along puts it, "You're a fancy pants general who doesn't know shit"—but a brutal kill wins their trust. Powell might not approve or recognize himself, but if no copies of Xenophon are handy, this timely and imaginative military thriller makes a good option.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Rugged Land
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1590710177
• ISBN 13: 9781590710173
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320