Assured Response

by Joe Weber

Book Overview

From the New York Times Best-Selling Author of DEFCON One When traditional military tactics are no longer enough, new weapons must be found. Scott Dalton and Jackie Sullivan are those weapons... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891418423
• ISBN13: 9780891418429
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Presidio Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.1" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Terrorize The Terrorists

Action on most every page makes for an enjoyable quick read. Nuclear bombs used in the U.S., the Secretary of State poisoned with sarin while on a cruise,a boeing business jet crashes into the Indian Point Nuclear Plant,Nuclear plants also attacked near New Orleans and St. Petersburg,explosives dropped on a Citgo refinery near Lake Charles,trains are derailed,the Bremerton Naval base is attacked,a huge containership is sunk blocking the port of Long Beach,Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams are destroyed, Lake Mead is unleashed. An invasion of illegals begins from Mexico. What next? Will the strong willed President prevail?

The War Against Terrorism!

President Macklin,Scott Dalton and Jackie Sullivan continue to fight the forces of terrorism in this Joe Weber book.The forces of evil in this book are Khaliq Farkas a very deadly terrorist from a previous Weber book and Saeed Shayhidi an Iranian businessman and a billionaire.Shayhidi activated terrorist cells operating within the United States. The attacks begin with an attack on an ocean liner with sarin.These sleeper agents begin crashing airplanes into oil refineries as well as nuclear plants.These acts of sabotage are carried out coast to coast.His cohort,master terrorist Khaliq Farkas uses nukes stolen from Russia to blow up dams(including the Hoover Dam) causing widespread damage.The terrorist attacks reach frightening levels. The United States retaliates by sinking Shayhidi's tankers.He also falls victim to the destruction of his palatial homes by the Special Forces of the United States.Scott Dalton and Jackie Sullivan bagin tracking Khaliq Farkas.The terrorist camps and the nations that harbor terrorists are victims of a nonstop bombing campaign by American forces.To say the least this book is full of nonstop action. The book ends with room for a sequel.If you like action this is your book.

Two thumbs up!

Weber tells an interesting tale of what can happen. One of the few authors willing to tackle a scenario where the terrorists can succeed. While the story is a typical Scott Dalton-Jackie Sullivan adventure, it is painted on an all to realistic canvas. Islamic terrorists have one goal-destroy America, the Great Satan, and then convert it to an Islam state. How? By destroying our economy. Weber's description of the damage caused by special atomic demolition munitions, SADMs or suitcase nukes, is accurate. SADMs were designed to destroy targets, not cities. Can nuclear weapons be smuggled into the U.S.? Yes. How much damage can a SADM cause. Weber's description is vivid, realistic, and frightening. Worse, it is a description of what the real thing would be like. And yes, it can happen here.

Assured Response

I enjoyed this book, hard to put it down. I've read all of Joe Webers books, this one is some of his best work. The story moves along fast and he doesn't spend over amount of time filling pages with character history. I put him in the same class as, Cliver Cussler, Dale Brown and Stephen Coonts