Not By Sight edition by Ken Prescott Literature Fiction eBooks
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Dennis Sandoval is a "Ghostrunner," an elite United States Air Force covert operator with a shadowy past. In the waning days of the Cold War, Sandoval must jump into East Germany and rescue an American missionary before a crucial East-West summit. But the mission spirals out of control; both the CIA and East German State Security are after the missionary. Cut off from his chain of command and hunted by Willi Metzger, a fanatical East German State Security officer with his own agenda, Sandoval must call on all of his skill and risk everything in order to survive and succeed.
Not By Sight edition by Ken Prescott Literature Fiction eBooks
A really great spy and military thriller set at height of Cold War. The author really captured the feel of the era with different character archetypes and plot. His style and language made the book enjoyable to read. Suggesting it to others and looking forward to the next one!Product details
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Not By Sight edition by Ken Prescott Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Great read!
I obtained this book through the Unlimited program.
I MUST first pay my compliments to the cover, else I will forget. It's really eye-catching a night-vision shot of an attack helicopter, silhouetted against the brighter flares of....something. Might be the lights of a city, might be burning tanks; but whatever the brighter points are, they serve to emphasize the stealthy lethality of the war machine. The font and placement are also good choices, too; my initial impression was of early dot-matrix green-screen printing, and that's exactly the right tone for the time in which the story is set. An artist could tell you why the title and author's name are legible; I don't speak that language, but I appreciate that effect.
An expanded and extended background to the novel is provided in Papa Pat Rambles.
Despite a typo in the Chapter Five title, the main events take place over a period of about a week in early May, 1988.
In December of 1987, Reagan and Gorbachev signed the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the INF, with the implementation date of June, 1988. The hard-liners in East Germany (DDR) and in the Soviet Union bitterly opposed the liberalization policies Gorbachev had implemented, and resisted them to the fullest. The DDR rightly forecast that only the backing of the Soviet military machine kept them in power, and so there were factions that sought any opportunity to disrupt the implementation of the treaty.
Meanwhile, in America, rogue elements in the intelligence community were eager to take just about any action they could, in the wake of the Iran-Contra disaster. Knowing that heads were going to roll, they wanted to produce an intelligence coup sd s justification for their continued employment.
Enter Dennis Sandoval, an Air Force enlisted man in the process of qualifying for the elite intelligence department known as Ghostrunners. His somewhat fog-shrouded past has provided him with enhanced skills, but he has earned the ire of his executive officer by reporting the dishonesty of an existing member of the team, who has since been kicked out of the unit.
To his surprise, he immediately gets placed into operational status upon completion of training. That, plus an appalling lack of intelligence needed to carry out the mission, makes him suspicious that all is not as it seems.
He's correct in that. He is told his mission is to exfiltrate an unknown American missionary who is smuggling Bibles across the border. (Note this was a common practice in the days before the Iron Curtain fell.) In addition to the fact that he is not given the identity of the missionary, other aspects of the mission are also problematic; however, the reaction of his executive officer when he asks questions makes him decide to keep his mouth shut, at least through official channels.
What follows is an adventure which could have been written by Tom Clancy at the height of his career, and since I repeatedly devoured every book Clancy wrote, that's high praise from me. Weapon use and deployment, moving across terrain, and spycraft are all described with the ring of authenticity. The only NON-standard story elements are the little coincidences, which are necessary to the storyline, and incidentally in providing us with a look at Sandoval's background.
There aren't any cliff-hangers, but there are a number of plot lines which could and should be developed further. The story has an obvious prequel called for, and the character is too good to be seen in just one book.
A nice little story about some of the forgotten aspects of the Cold War. It's good to be reminded how paranoid the Soviets were, and how nasty the East German authorities could be. This book makes me wonder if the "Ghostrunners" truly existed.
Great story! I hope to see more by this author.
A superb military thriller. Ken Prescott is a techno-thriller ace.
Not the best action thriller...but entertaining for 2 am sleepless times...nine more words required so here they are...back to zzzzz...
A really great spy and military thriller set at height of Cold War. The author really captured the feel of the era with different character archetypes and plot. His style and language made the book enjoyable to read. Suggesting it to others and looking forward to the next one!
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