Shadows of War
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (870 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00584HGM8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 509 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Aerial fight scenes that are more thrilling than a back-to-back showing of Top Gun and Iron Eagle." -- Publishers Weekly"Gandt is a rare treasure, a Navy jet jock with the gift of being able to tell a compelling story. -- Pacific Flyer"Gandt is as good an author as he is a pilot, and that's high praise." -- Aviation Week"Reading a Gandt flying tale is the next best thing to being in the cockpit. This guy is good." -- Stephen Coonts, author of Flight of the Intruder
Gandt has written five previous non-fiction books. WITH HOSTILE INTENT is his first novel, and he is currently working on another Brick Maxwell adventure. As a captain for Pan Am and then Delta Air Lines, he was based in Hong Kong, Berlin, San Francisco, and New York, accumulating over 30,000 flying hours. You may visit his web site at gandt.. At age 20, he was the youngest aviator in the U
"Supersonic Storytelling" according to Bonnie Toews. In "Shadows of War," Robert Gandt proves he is the top gun of military thriller writers. He is such a skilled storyteller that all elements of his novel writing weave seamlessly together creating characters and scenes that come alive so clearly that readers become locked in Brick Maxwell's world of international crises, combat flying and political betrayal. In this story, Brick's loyalties and integrity. All of the story seems to be very close to All of the story seems to be very close to the true facts. I can relive my own experience through his words.. Furstenberger said Five Stars. Excellent!!
Maxwell attends the exchange, hoping the POW will turn out to be Raz. Brick Maxwell lost a good friend and squadron mate when Raz Rasmussen was shot down on the opening night of the first Gulf War. At first Maxwell is ignored by the CIA--until his old enemy, Jamal Al-Fasr, is captured on the Iraq-Iran border and offers to trade himself for an American POW. But the CIA has its own agenda--and a shocking betrayal places Maxwell in the kill zone. Though Raz's body was never recovered, he was declared KIA and soon forgotten. Years later, when Raz's now-remarried wife receives a call claiming Raz is alive, she asks Maxwell for help