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Against All Enemies Hardcover – June 14, 2011
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A terrorist bombing in Pakistan wipes out Max Moore’s entire CIA team. As the only survivor, the former Navy SEAL plunges deeper into the treacherous tribal lands to find the terrorist cell, but what he discovers there leads him to a much darker conspiracy in an unexpected part of the globe—the US/Mexico border.
Here a drug war rages between the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels. The landscape is strewn with bodies, innocents and drug dealers alike, but is there an even deadlier enemy lurking in background? Into this deadly brew, Moore leads a group of specially selected agents whose daring actions reveal shocking answers and uncover an unholy plan—a strike against the very heart of America.
- Print length768 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherG.P. Putnam's Sons
- Publication dateJune 14, 2011
- Dimensions6.25 x 2.5 x 9.25 inches
- ISBN-100399157301
- ISBN-13978-0399157301
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Tom Clancy was the author of eighteen #1 New York Times-bestselling novels. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the bestseller list after President Ronald Reagan pronounced it "the perfect yarn." Clancy was the undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He died in October 2013.
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- Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons; First Edition (June 14, 2011)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 768 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0399157301
- ISBN-13 : 978-0399157301
- Item Weight : 2.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 2.5 x 9.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #151,781 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,191 in Military Thrillers (Books)
- #2,179 in War Fiction (Books)
- #12,188 in Suspense Thrillers
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Tom Clancy is America's, and the world's, favorite international thriller author. Starting with THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, all thirteen of his previous books have hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. His books, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, PATRIOT GAMES, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER and THE SUM OF ALL FEARS have been made into major motion pictures. He lived in Maryland where he was a co-owner of the Baltimore Orioles.
Peter Telep is the author of more than forty novels. His collaboration with Tom Clancy, Against All Enemies, debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List. Additionally, he has written many bestselling novels based on Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon, Endwar, and Splinter Cell video game series.
He is a produced film and television writer and has worked alongside professionals throughout the video game industry. The Doc Harrison series marks his return to fantasy and science fiction where he began his career.
Find him on Facebook, Twitter (@petertelep), and email: peter@docharrisonbooks.com. He always loves to hear from his readers!
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However, this book has been trashed by a number of people here on Amazon.com. I find it hard to believe they've read the book.
A friend of mine recommended Against All Enemies saying that it reminded him of the early Clancy novels. Excited, I bought a Kindle version despite the price.
I have to say I was not disappointed. Against All Enemies is, indeed, reminiscent of classic Clancy. The plot is complex, but fast moving. The characters are larger than life, but realistic and believable.The story is chock full of technical stuff related simply enough so as not to bog down the story. The story is exciting and the writing supports the fast-paced action throughout the more than 700 pages. I was captured just as I was when I read The Hunt for Red October.
The difference for me between THFRO and AAE, is that while reading THFRO, I kept asking myself, "Where did he get all this classified info?" I was a Navy P3 pilot at the time, and somehow Clancy almost nailed our mission, tactics, and in aircraft banter. Though there were some inaccuracies, problems with some of the P3 and patrol mission technical details, he nailed enough of it to be believable. With AAE, since I'm not an expert in any of the technicalities therein, I'll just have to accept them without the "wow" of the revelation of military secrets.
As to whether Peter Taleb wrote the book or Clancy did. I don't care. I, like an earlier reviewer, have reread a couple of early Clancy novels, including THFRO, and found them to be not as magical as they once were. Against All Enemies stacks up against them solidly.
It was well worth the read. Thanks Peter or Tom, whoever wrote this engaging, exciting novel.
Good example was Debt of Honor. (it happened on my birthday 9/11 01.The Bear and the Dragon was a policy advice, that the brothers in arms in WWI & WWII would in future have common interest. That was ignored by both parties. This prolegomenous is to cast light on my rating: Mr. Clancy is pointing out in Against All Enemies, that old stile billion dollar wars are tings of the past, no more Gettysburg. In stead you have to cut the head of the snake with a sharp blade.TC. quotes from Art of War the old Chinese classical war manual, which in my opinion the US military has mostly ignored. By mentioning the presidential palace in Columbia he revels the name of a revolution hero which was from the same school of thought as the US founding fathers (Visionaries)
When Moore vent to visit Wazir, he was met by old Rana, as Wazir had been killed in a Drone strike. Those two might be the Afghan fighters described in Cardinal of the Kremlin. The message is that the Drone operation should be giving more consideration, because they can make an old friend a new enemy. The advice: US need no more enemies.
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Instead the writing is the more lean and straightforward, often showing-rather-than-telling style of most successful commercial fiction thrillers. It fits the book well, since it's very much like those countless other thrillers, with a somewhat generic Navy SEAL/CIA operator taking on armies of terrorists and drug cartel enforcers, with gun battles and assassinations in almost every other chapter and lots of violence, while never becoming overly complex, similar in style to Brad Thor, Vince Flynn, or Alex Berenson.
The book's focus on the drug cartels and the main settings in Mexico are at least refreshing changes from the numerous thrillers with terrorists and Middle East locations.
Clancy/Telep/Putnam's new hero is Max Moore, a Navy SEAL/CIA veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan assigned to a task force targeting a Mexican drug cartel leader. Moore is never fully developed and, unlike Clancy's other main characters, doesn't really come across as a real person, despite being given large chunks of back story that are told throughout the novel in brief flashbacks. He's just another special forces action hero with little personality, and the book never really gets into his thoughts. None of the other characters particularly stand out either, which is unfortunate since there are so many of them, and it makes it a bit difficult at times to recall who's who and what their relationship to other characters is.
The other major downside is that the book is a bit too long. The plot is not that complex or intricate, and this story could have been told in a lot fewer pages. But it still held my attention throughout and was a very fast read. There were perhaps too many unnecessary action scenes that did nothing to advance the plot, but most of these are pretty brief.
Overall the book holds up as a quality and above average thriller. There are a couple minor moments scatered throughout the book that aren't entirely consistent with reality, but the story is plausible and follows a believable chain of events, without delving into comic book territory or relying on implausible plot twists, like so many of these types of books tend to do.
While not up to Clancy's usual standards (or even the standards of the co-authored Dead or Alive), Against All Enemies is still just as a good anything by Brad Thor or Vince Flynn. A fun, readable, but not exceptional thriller. If you just care about reading an entertaining book, than you can do much worse than Against All Enemies.