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Title: By Dawn's Early Light by David Hagberg ISBN: 0-7653-0454-6 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: By Dawns Early Light
Comment: Hagberg at his best. I could not put the book down. The short chapters keep you interested through the entire story. All action, every chapter was like the way it should be for our fighting forces. The ending has me wanting the next book immediately.
Rating: 1
Summary: Hmmm..
Comment: Well, I should start out by pointing out that I'm Pakistani, so this book kinda wound me the wrong way. It's pretty much in the pattern of techno-thrillers of this sort, with Yankee pluck and firepower prevailing over the evil hordes.. whichever hordes they may be. In this case, not only is there Pakistan, but also forces from Iran, the DPRK and China get thrown into the meat grinder.. and a few renegade Russians to round things off, heck. As always, the villains are motivated by the urge to destroy and kill women and civilians with no regard for life, while there is much self-righteous dialogue betwixt the heroes on just how-darn-*bad* the bad guys are. The conference by the Pakistani High Command ('Lets throw a hydrogen bomb here.. and here.. and here... and, oooo, how about here!')only makes any sort of sense if you've decided that these characters are lunatics, plain and simple.
Little in this book convinces me of any research into Pakistan by the author, apart from putting in the right name of the current President, Musharraf. Interestingly, though the use of Musharrafs name implies a very 'now' setting for the book, none of the other Pakistani high command or leadership are current. Then again, hardly any of the supposedly Pakistani names sound.. well, Pakistani. Adding to what one could consider basic research issues, he identifies Pakistans CCC as being at Chaklala, rather than Rawalpindi. Oh, and Mr Hagberg... you may be interested in knowing that in Pakistan, unlike the US, the Rangers are paramilitary, border-patrol type units - the Special Forces are the Special Services Group (SSG). It's almost amusing to read about the 'elite Pakistani Rangers' with night vision goggles, black Special-Force uniforms etc. Little niggles like that abound.
And to think, this is while Pakistan is a US ally! I shudder to think of what Mr Hagberg has written of countries that are actually US enemies!
Rating: 4
Summary: The world is a very dangerous place
Comment: I have been a fan of this author since High Flight and was little disappointed to see that this was not a continuation of the Kirk McGarvey books, however I soon got over it. We have an entepreneur in my area who's commercials end with the thundered phrase: "Harris knows golf!" Well, Hagberg knows submarines and the parts of the book which are involved with them are the most entertaining and informative from my point of view.
Pakistan has developed THE BOMB. Not your garden variety terrorist type of nuclear device, but a hydrogen bomb. A city buster. And it can be delivered from an air plane, not a missle. That ability is discovered by a CIA team which has infiltrated Pakistan to observe the testing of a new weapons system who get much more than they expected, including being captured, imprisoned and abused.
Prior to the test a US satelite observing the area is blinded by a laser attack from a Kilo class submarine, national origin unknown. The laser attack is observed by an American oceanographic research ship which is torpedoed and sunk as a result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The CIA team on the ground gets the message out of the delivery system for the Pakistani bomb before they are caught and an effort is made to rescue them. There is also a need to repair the satellite, accomplish the rescue and defend the shuttle crew doing the repair from another laser attack. To do this the USS Seawolf is called into service. Cmdr. Frank Dillon is in charge and it is a good thing for all concerned that he is.
The remainder of the book is involved with protecting the satellite repair, getting the sub which has fired the laser, rescuing the CIA team and making the world a safer place, all of which seems to have been accomplished until the last chapter when we find that the story is not over and the prelude to what follows is chilling. Hagberg fans will be waiting for the next installment.
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