- Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Presidio Press; Reprint edition (May 31 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345472551
- ISBN-13: 978-0345472557
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,305,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Super top-secret spy duo Scott Dalton and Jackie Sullivan return to battle Islamic terrorists in bestseller Weber's (Primary Target) latest techno-thriller. Charged with capturing the key lieutenant-and his suitcase-sized nuclear weapons-of a terrorist organization that's begun a deadly assault on the U.S., the pair spends much of the novel flying around in an assortment of meticulously described aircraft as attacks on American symbolic and strategic targets mount. President Cord Macklin orders a series of counterattacks, at first setting his sights on Saeed Shayhidi, the multibillionaire shipping magnate-cum-terrorist arch-villain. When that doesn't halt the strikes on America, Macklin aggressively broadens his war on terrorism, promising, "No peace talks, no compromises, no settlements, no bullshit-period!" This post-9/11 rage might prove cathartic for some readers, but it doesn't do much for Weber's plot. The "assured" quality of attack and response drains the book of its suspense, and the violence level rises predictably and inexorably. The one truly surprising element in the novel is an international border dispute that follows a deeply unlikely chain of events. Dalton and Sullivan continue to speak like robots (She: "We are going to Hawaii as soon as possible, right?" He: "No argument from me, but responsibility is the nature of our business"), and they also seem to watch much of the book's action on Fox News. The plot threads that are left hanging-to be picked up in the next installment, presumably-give the book a frustratingly half-finished feel.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
PRAISE FOR THE NOVELS OF JOE WEBER
Dancing with the Dragon
“The action is brisk. . . . A solid accomplishment for thriller readers.”
–Booklist
DEFCON One
“Chilling and credible . . . An ominous, nightmarish scenario of how World War III could happen.”
–STEPHEN COONTS
Primary Target
“A chilling scenario of global warfare . . . The suspense never stops.”
–W.E.B. GRIFFIN
Targets of Opportunity
“Some writers get better with age; Weber is among them.”
–Library Journal
From the Hardcover edition.
Dancing with the Dragon
“The action is brisk. . . . A solid accomplishment for thriller readers.”
–Booklist
DEFCON One
“Chilling and credible . . . An ominous, nightmarish scenario of how World War III could happen.”
–STEPHEN COONTS
Primary Target
“A chilling scenario of global warfare . . . The suspense never stops.”
–W.E.B. GRIFFIN
Targets of Opportunity
“Some writers get better with age; Weber is among them.”
–Library Journal
From the Hardcover edition.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Assuredly NOT an "Assured Repsonse",
By A Customer
This review is from: Assured Response (Hardcover)
This is perhaps the worst book I've ever read and I'm a voracious reader who is always reading something. "Assured Response" deserves ZERO out of five stars, but since that's not an option, I'll say this. For anyone interested in reading this book, let alone in buying it, I strongly recommend that the buyer beware. You should seriously consider leaving this title on the shelf and going back to pick up books from proven authors such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, etc.This book starts off with a somewhat plausible theme: activities of terrorists in the near future. From there it goes downhill. As the reader delves deeper into "Assured Response", however, the reader encounters scenario after scenario that defies logical conclusions, common sense, and all reasonable plausibility. Amazon.com policy forbids that I go into details that give away the plot, so I won't, but the overall effect that I came away with after reading "Assured Response" was that Joe Weber wasn't imaginative enough to overcome the logical hurdles that arose while writing this book. Instead of working out the "bugs," he allowed the flow of the plot to ignore the plausiblity and logic of what was being depicted. To advance the flow of his plot, he routinely depicted members of the military and government as being dullards and incompetent. Situations that would NEVER happen DO happen in his book. For an author who purports to be a former Marine carrier aviator, this book is an insult to any reader who wears an American uniform. Joe Weber uses his book to be as far-fetched and removed from plausible possibility as his imagination will allow--and then some. America can be thankful that the American government and American military forces are not the dullards, idiots, and incompetents that Joe Weber portrayed them to be in "Assured Response." "Assured Response" should be considered to be more science-fiction than technothriller.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Laugh out loud bad,
By A Customer
This review is from: Assured Response (Hardcover)
I needed something to read on a trip and thought an action thriller would be just the thing. Um, this has to be about the worst book I ever read. The one plus is I laughed a lot. I'm guessing this guy was never actually in the military, because he doesn't have a clue what it is really like.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Beyond Bad,
By Richard (Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Assured Response (Hardcover)
A trainwreck of a story, great idea, but the execution is awful... Also the author seems to be doing his best to make the U.S military look like a bunch of incompetents and amateurs. I read all of Mr Webers other stories I won't read another
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