READERS
PRAISE DAVID ALEXANDER’S HIGH-TECH ACTION THRILLERS*
TERMINAL
VECTOR:
This book kicks the asses of almost any other military or action book I've read in the last year or so at least. This guy's one fiendishly clever writer. Some of the twists of the plot are really bitchin'. Like what they do to the terrorists in the last chapter. That's one plot twist I never saw in the movies. I won't say what it is, because that would spoil the fun. Otherwise, I wish the book was longer, but it pulled everything together perfectly. I sold the last couple of series books I bought to the local used book store. The list included books by Tom Clancy and Dale Brown. I'm keeping my copy of Terminal Vector so I can read it again at least one more time, though. Coming from me, that's a huge compliment.
UNDER ATTACK:
I'm a Marine
serving in Afghanistan. We got some copies of this book in a box load that was
donated to our unit library. I just want to say that I enjoyed the book
immensely. The author sure knows what he's talking about as far as weapons and
tactical matters are concerned. He's also really skilled at telling a story
that builds with each chapter so that you're really hooked from the first page
to the last. Somehow Under Attack by David
Alexander grabbed me from beginning to end, where sadly I plowed through at
least ten other series by junk writers who were plainly atrocious phonies who
are probably just wimps in real life pretending to be soldiers.
There's no
pretend in the stuff Alexander writes. He knows his shit. I kept thinking as I
read the book that I wished we could get him to come to Iraq and autograph
some copies. I passed my copy around to another guy in my platoon and he
enjoyed it a whole lot too. So far, the book's been passed around so much that
it's practically fallen apart.
We just asked
one of the guy's wives back home to send us some more copies of whatever she
can find from Alexander. I just want this author to know that there are
soldiers in the line of fire that are taking his book into combat with them.
PS: As I'm writing this I just got word that the copy of Under Attack helped stop a fragment from an IED and saved my buddy's life! The copy of Under Attack is now part of our unit history. Semper fi, brother! You are the greatest.
[Under Attack]
takes the global action thriller to a new level of storytelling. The author
has set the action in a world of combat action that has never existed in
reality and may never exist. Under Attack is in effect set in an alternative
universe that is similar to our actual world but very different in many other
regards. Under Attack, like some of Alexander’s books that preceded this
thriller, is also set at least two decades in the future.
Alexander can
not only play around with a terrorist chieftain who has pledged eternal jihad
against the United States called the Mahdi, but
can also pit a U.S.-led global military coalition against a resurgent and
belligerent Soviet Union, reborn under a dictator who is pledged to bring the
world under Soviet dominance even if it takes global warfare and
megadeaths to accomplish his end.
Just as the
Mahdi is a believable successor to Osama bin
Laden, so the neo-Soviet leader is almost as believable a character as
Vladimir Putin, who he closely resembles. Beyond
the geopolitical framework, Alexander (who has penned several nonfiction
military titles, including Tomorrow's Soldier, Stealth Warfare and The
Building: A Biography of the Pentagon) has created equally believable
next-generation weapon systems that are deployed in a high-tech, futuristic
battlefield.
Alexander paints accurate, detailed pictures of how each weapon functions, how it is used tactically in this future universe of warfare, taking the reader along step by step. The entire effect makes for totally gripping, enthralling reading in the Tom Clancy mode that nevertheless throws the reader more surprises than a cluster bomb blowing an enemy tank to smithereens. Under Attack crackles with excitement on every page. It is a not-to-be-missed experience in military thriller reading. I highly recommend it.
"First of all,"
replied Alexander, "I want to point out that like some of my other recent
thrillers, the plotlines unfold not only in the near future but actually in an
alternate universe where geopolitical realities something like our own prevail
but in which there are certain marked differences."
"Such as what, for example?" Alexander was asked.
"For one thing,
there is a resurgent Soviet Union in the sagas. In this alternate universe the
United States is not only engaged in a war against global terrorism, but is
actually fighting a 21st century version of the Cold War. Not re-fighting the
Cold War, mind you, but fighting an entirely different and more dangerous
version of East-West confrontation with new and more deadly weaponry. As I
pointed out in my book Stealth Warfare, this might eventually happen, since
the C.I.S. is today very actively vying with the West in a kind of clandestine
arms race behind the scenes."
David
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*Names withheld
at readers’ requests.