- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Signet (MM) (Nov 1 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451216970
- ISBN-13: 978-0451216977
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 159 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #899,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.7 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews)
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Modern Navy pilots have become push-button warriors, Dec 4 2005
By Rennie Petersen - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Killing Sky (Paperback)
"The Killing Sky" is the fifth book in Robert Gandt's great series of novels about Brick Maxwell, and it's one of the two best. (My other favorite is "Acts of Vengeance", the second book in the series.)
Brick Maxwell is a U.S. Navy pilot and squadron leader, flying an F/A-18 Super Hornet off the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, stationed in the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. The story starts with a joint exercise with the Israeli Air Force ending with an American F/A-18 getting shot down for real!
What went wrong? Did the Israeli pilot really push the missile launch button instead of just announcing a simulated kill? And why does the female Israeli Mossad agent make a play for Brick Maxwell? Is she trying to get information out of him or does she have other motives?
This book contains the same three general plot elements as most of Robert Gandt's novels:
- exciting "you're sitting in the cockpit" descriptions of modern Navy flight operations, with dogfights, carrier-based landings and takeoffs, and push-button warfare with modern smart bombs and missiles.
- geopolitical machinations, this time involving high-level Americans and Israelis and Palestinians. And to keep the excitement up there are internal conflicts within each national group, including a really nasty American political envoy with presidential ambitions.
- romantic involvement for Brick, this time involving not just one but two women.
I liked this book a lot, despite the rather slow start. The suspense gets cranked up by the under-handed dealings going on between the politicians and the resulting armed conflicts between the Palestinians, the Israelis and the American forces. Is the United States really going to invade Palestine and engineer a democratic process, just like in Iraq? And who is really behind the decisions that are causing the continued escalation of hostilities?
One of my criticisms of Robert Gandt's novels is that the characters don't really come across as real people. This is still true in "The Killing Sky", but less so than in the first books in the series, another plus for this book.
Recommended for all fans of military action novels, as is the whole Brick Maxwell series.
Rennie Petersen
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Slow start and cliched, Jun 16 2006
By Douglas De Bono - Author of No Safe Harbor - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Killing Sky (Paperback)
This book took me about 150 pages before I was hooked. I was put off by a couple of things:
1) The knock-out gorgeous Israeli spy/helicopter/deputy foreign minister blah, blah, blah. Why can't we have an ugly spy that doesn't hop into bed right away?
2) The venal self-serving politician (not that there aren't plenty of those) that puts personal ambition ahead of country and honor.
3) A tidy ending that wraps up most of the loose ends. Those that remain dangling aren't all that critical.
The story is interesting, but when we get to the war part and you have the combined might of 3 carrier battle groups and a cast off line that the air force couldn't find any place to base their planes even though they had Iraq and Israel and Qatar in close proximity tended to suspend belief from a military perspective.
Where were the Tomahawks, the B-2s, the submarines, the Ucavs and on and on it goes? If America goes to war, it will not only involve a bunch of Super Hornets flying off carriers.
The scope of this book was far broader than the time spent to develop the story.
I think Robert Gandt can do better.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gandt is great!!, Jan 22 2006
By Erin Wright "Navy Wife" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Killing Sky (Paperback)
The Killing Sky is the 5th book in the Brick Maxwell series and it is as good if not better than the previous four. Just like the other Gandt novels in this series it took me one weekend to read as I couldn't put it down. It is great for couples since it appeals to both men and women. It has everything from the fast paced excitement of being in the cockpit of an F/A-18 Super Hornet to romance. I would best describe this book as Tom Clancy meets Top Gun which is a great combination. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for an entertaining story!
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