Any Harold Coyle Readers?

[TrailerParkJawa]

I read Coyle's recent book about a civil war in the United States. I found it to be lacking compared to his other novels. I got the impression this latest book was written before God's Children.

Im starting to think the mabye he is burnt out on writing or running out of ideas.

Here is how I rank the books Ive read.

Team Yankee - A+ ( I really felt tired, like I was there )
Sword Point - A ( personal favorite )
Bright Star - B- ( overall decent book )
Trail By Fire - B ( us-mexican war )
10 Thousand - B ( another good one, even if the scenario is far fetched )
Code of Honor - B ( columbia drug wars )
God's Children - C+ ( felt like the ending was rushed )
Against All Enemies - C- (could not buy the story, characters not developed)

I did read about half of one of his Civil War novels. I found the attention to detail to be outstanding. I just never finished cause I was not interested in a book about those times.

[Sea Skimmer]

I've read:

Team Yankee
Sword Point
Bright Star
The Ten Thousand
Code of Honor

Sword Point was the best of em, though the next three books did a great job of developing the characters further. Team Yankee was excellent, though while it is set in the world of another book, "The Third World War" it doesn’t follow that story very closely beyond the date, cause of the war and the very ending.

The Third World War was also a good book, it dealt with the political and strategic aspects of a large scale conventional WW3 around the world while having little excerpts of combat. It does get a little screwed in that it was written in 1978 but set in 1985 so both sides capabilities are somewhat inflated, and there is no Iranian revolution. Still very good. Team Yankee Basically has the exact opposite focus.

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Ian Slater tried to mesh those two with his WW3 series, but produced utter crap. The first book was all right, but things just plummet to just awful by the middle of the second. The moron doesn’t even know what various missiles can do. The AA Harpoons and radar! guided torpedoes come to mind as do the carrier based F-15's. He doesn’t understand how the US legal system works, or a dozen other things. He also lacks a consistent timeline. His claims of being in Australian intelligence are clearly false given the huge volume of mistakes, all of which are repeated constantly. They are no one off things, which might have resulted from typos or poor editing.

Somehow America managed to fight the Gulf War as historical while fighting the Soviet Union then Siberia and then China non-stop for years. I still can't understand how he managed to write so damn many of them, I picked up the entire eight book series for five dollars new.
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What's Against All Enemies about?

[TrailerParkJawa]

I didnt read any of those books. I know I should not have, but I judged a book by its cover and never picked them up. I might have read the back covers.

Team Yankee was outstanding. I did make the connection to 1985 which I also read, but because I read it at a young age, I did not quite "get it."
I liked Team Yankee because you really got a sense of being the a member of the unit, and not really knowing what was happening outside your area.

I was very sad when Harold Cerro died, he was my favorite character.

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I didnt read any of those books. I know I should not have, but I judged a book by its cover and never picked them up. I might have read the back covers.

Team Yankee was outstanding. I did make the connection to 1985 which I also read, but because I read it at a young age, I did not quite "get it."
I liked Team Yankee because you really got a sense of being the a member of the unit, and not really knowing what was happening outside your area.

I was very sad when Harold Cerro died, he was my favorite character.

Given that the connection to WW3 1985 is in the forward.. I also read it young, and it didn't intrest me a whole lot. But I reread it last year and enjoyed it much more. Though the use of XM-1 rather then M-1 is annoying at times.

Never read anything written by Ian Slater, waste of time and money. I ended up reading them all, hoping that one might be decent, plus I was very baorded and read 500 page books in a night.

[TrailerParkJawa]

Do you like Larry Bond? Ive enjoyed all of his novels.

My favorite was Red Phoenix. It was about a second Korean War.

[Sea Skimmer]

Do you like Larry Bond? Ive enjoyed all of his novels.

My favorite was Red Phoenix. It was about a second Korean War.

Yes, I've read most of his books along with obtaining Harpoon both written and computer. All are good. Hell Clancy was right, the ship aircraft and sensor information that come with those really are worth 5000 dollars worth of reference books. Though the original data is dated by today.


Ever Read Red Army by Ralph Peters? Another WW3 book, only its told completely from the Soviet side and is basically all first person.