Kill Zone

by JACK COUGHLIN

Overview

An American general is captured by Islamic extremists in the Middle East. They threaten to behead him within days. But moments before he is rendered unconscious, the general notices that his unseen captors speak perfect American English. What's going on?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250314796
Publisher:	Griffin
Publication date:	12/02/2008
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	4.25(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

GUNNERY SGT. JACK COUGHLIN was with the Third Battalion, Fourth Regiment Marines during the drive to Baghdad and has operated on a wide range of assignments in hotspots around the world.

DONALD A. DAVIS is the author of fifteen books, including three New York Times bestsellers. Visit his Web site at www.authordonaldadavis.com.

Editorial Reviews

Coughlin wrote with Davis on Shooter, a memoir of Coughlin's career as a Marine Corps sniper. In the team's debut novel, the two pit Gunnery Sgt. Kyle Swanson, the corps's best sniper, against a secret alliance of government and business bigwigs. A triumvirate of National Security Adviser Gerald Buchanan, Senate Armed Services Committee chair Ruth Reed and megarich businessman Gordon Gates IV are using Gates Global (the world's preeminent private security company) to implement a plan to take over the military, rewrite the Constitution and usher in the creation of a "New America." In Saudi Arabia, Marine Brig. Gen. Bradley Middleton is kidnapped by two mercenaries working for Gates Global. After Swanson is chosen to be part of a rescue team, helicopters carrying the rescuers crash on landing, and Swanson is left with only his exceptional combat skills and his high-tech rifle, Excalibur ("a sniper's wet dream"). The action reaches such a furious pitch that readers will hardly notice an overly romantic subplot or the clumsy machinations of the evil trio. (Nov.)

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