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Jihadi Hijacking: Code Name: Dodger Mission 3
"4 OUT OF 4 STARS!"—Online Book ClubPopular in good teen young adult spy books and novels!
To the world’s peace-loving Muslims, “Jihad” signifies the holy inner struggle to seek the 5 pillars of Islam. A misguided few, however, have corrupted it into a call for war . . .ONE TEEN ORPHAN. ONE SPY. SIX ARMED TERRORISTS. BRACE FOR IMPACT!Fourteen-year-old Justin Reed and his adopted secret agent father Bob find themselves on a hijacked airliner. Even if they can regain control, who's left to land the plane? Every passenger's nightmare—and every simulator pilot's fantasy!MISSION 3 OF THE CODE DODGER "SPY/FLY" ACTION ADVENTURE SERIES!Missions can be read in any order."4/4 STARS! Superb on so many levels. A well-executed juggling act with just the right amount of humor. A highly detailed, entertaining, and character-driven spy thriller!"—Online Book Club
To the world’s peace-loving Muslims, “Jihad” signifies the holy inner struggle to seek the 5 pillars of Islam. A misguided few, however, have corrupted it into a call for war . . .ONE TEEN ORPHAN. ONE SPY. SIX ARMED TERRORISTS. BRACE FOR IMPACT!Fourteen-year-old Justin Reed and his adopted secret agent father Bob find themselves on a hijacked airliner. Even if they can regain control, who's left to land the plane? Every passenger's nightmare—and every simulator pilot's fantasy!MISSION 3 OF THE CODE DODGER "SPY/FLY" ACTION ADVENTURE SERIES!Missions can be read in any order."4/4 STARS! Superb on so many levels. A well-executed juggling act with just the right amount of humor. A highly detailed, entertaining, and character-driven spy thriller!"—Online Book Club
209 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 13, 2015
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Eric Auxier
14 books19 followersAn airline pilot by day, writer by night, and kid by choice!
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-The Last Bush Pilots: An Amazon Top 100 Breakthrough Novel!
-Code Name: Dodger Missions 1-4
"One of the best books I've ever read!" —Online Book Club
-There I Wuz! Adventures From 3 Decades in the Sky, Volumes 1—4
- True tales from 30,000 feet!
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Author of:
-The Last Bush Pilots: An Amazon Top 100 Breakthrough Novel!
-Code Name: Dodger Missions 1-4
"One of the best books I've ever read!" —Online Book Club
-There I Wuz! Adventures From 3 Decades in the Sky, Volumes 1—4
- True tales from 30,000 feet!
Enjoy my airline blog at: celebrating the magic of flight and the joys (and tribulations) of world travel!
https://capnaux.com/books/?utm_source...
Happy reading!
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December 1, 2015
Another amazing action packed mission for Justin! Fast paced and no time to get bored.
But this is what I liked the most; I liked chapter 3:Mission Brief. I am pretty confused about the whole Middle East situation and this chapter helped me understand a little bit of what is going on and who and what etc. Especially of note was what Justin's adoptive dad, Bob Cheney says in his discussion of the people that live in the Middle East,
"The vast majority of good people in the Middle East just want to be left alone to live a peaceful life like we do." That is how I feel. They are just humans like the rest of us.
Also the definition of jihad was informative to me. And a whole lot more.
So besides being a fun read it was an educational read. Pick it up and read it, you won't be sorry.
But this is what I liked the most; I liked chapter 3:Mission Brief. I am pretty confused about the whole Middle East situation and this chapter helped me understand a little bit of what is going on and who and what etc. Especially of note was what Justin's adoptive dad, Bob Cheney says in his discussion of the people that live in the Middle East,
"The vast majority of good people in the Middle East just want to be left alone to live a peaceful life like we do." That is how I feel. They are just humans like the rest of us.
Also the definition of jihad was informative to me. And a whole lot more.
So besides being a fun read it was an educational read. Pick it up and read it, you won't be sorry.
December 31, 2021
*A copy of this was given to me free on the conditions of rating and leaving an honest review.*
This story follows out main character Justin (the orphaned child of an ex-operative who has received extensive combat and political training from the CIA) and his foster father Bob Cheney (who just happens to be a member of a worldwide secret organization created to combat terrorism). After using his secret combat training to beat up half the football team of the school he goes to (for bullying a physically challenged classmate) his father decides that the best way to avoid any fall out from the incident is to take Justin along with him on a trip to Tel Aviv. Unfortunately for our characters, the plane is hijacked by Muslim terrorists during the flight. The action continues from there.
I think I can understand why the reviews on this are positive as of me writing this but I really didn’t like it unfortunately. Let’s break it down:
- I really am not a fan of the main character Justin. His dialogue is unrealistic to say the least. The author had a hard time deciding if he wanted to write Justin as a naive teenager or a miniature adult. His dialogue bounces back and forth between him having no idea what’s going on and being the smartest person in the room. Also sprinkle in a little of really awkward dialogue where you can tell a grown man is trying to sound like a teenager and failing. He has magical combat skills that can get him out of any situation he happens to be in. And he just happens to be obsessed with a flight simulator game so that when his flight is hijacked he can not only take down the terrorist in a couple of minutes, he can also help land the plane after.
- The foster father is a goddamn idiot. The reason he’s flying to Tel Aviv is to follow a known terrorist and he decides its a good idea to take his newly adopted teenage son with him?
- The secret antiterrorism task force seems super keen to recruit a literal 14 year old child into their ranks. They give him a super secret iPhone that turns out to be a spyPhone (har har) with an AI in it that is pretty much magic. They somehow teach him a new language in a way that he doesn’t know they did and also doesn’t know happened (when he hears someone speaking it it magically changes to English in his head and he hears English when he’s speaking it back even though it comes out of him mouth in the other language). Is the government really so hard up for agents that they have to resort to recruiting literal children?
- The terrorists are simultaneously portrayed as cartoonishly evil stereotypes while also trying to convey the subtlety of why they would be acting the way they are at the same time. They go around shouting all the things that people think a Muslim terrorist is supposed to shout and doing all of the things these terrible people would be expected to do but then try to portray some of them as just young people who have been taken advantage of by terrible people.
- Most of the information about the Muslim faith, terrorism, the governing system of the Middle East, and plane operation is delivered in gigantic exposition dumps. Like surprisingly gigantic considering how short the book is.
-Even thought a large part of the start of the book is completely unnecessary pictures of what the controls of the airplane that gets hijacked looks like, while they are trying to pilot the plane to safety after the attempt to take it over fails, they go into a painful amount of detail about exactly what they are doing to safely land the plane again.
-The action scenes are interesting (mostly to see how ridiculous they are) but they are over way too soon to get any kind of enjoyment out of them. I would say the best one is the first with the bullies but even that is drowning in ridiculous dialogue.
- New country was invented in the Middle East to be the funding source of the group the terrorists belong to. I’ll give it to them that this makes sense though. Don’t need an actual country getting irritated at it for being depicted as funding these kinds of groups.
-They add a plan to start WW3 at the end that I ended up not even caring about. Using hijacked planes to drop bombs and start the war. I guess that might work but I just didn’t care.
I think that’s my main problem with the book. I don’t care. Don’t care about the main characters, don’t care about the terrorists, don’t care about the hijacking. It can be hard to get behind a book when nothing that happens in it matters to you.
Overall like I said I really didn’t like this. There are apparently three other missions in this series but I don’t think I’m going to read them. Supposedly you can read all of these stories in any order but that theory doesn’t really work when there are constant references in this story to the two that can before it. At least the book was super short. That way you don’t have to spend too much of your time reading this thing.
This story follows out main character Justin (the orphaned child of an ex-operative who has received extensive combat and political training from the CIA) and his foster father Bob Cheney (who just happens to be a member of a worldwide secret organization created to combat terrorism). After using his secret combat training to beat up half the football team of the school he goes to (for bullying a physically challenged classmate) his father decides that the best way to avoid any fall out from the incident is to take Justin along with him on a trip to Tel Aviv. Unfortunately for our characters, the plane is hijacked by Muslim terrorists during the flight. The action continues from there.
I think I can understand why the reviews on this are positive as of me writing this but I really didn’t like it unfortunately. Let’s break it down:
- I really am not a fan of the main character Justin. His dialogue is unrealistic to say the least. The author had a hard time deciding if he wanted to write Justin as a naive teenager or a miniature adult. His dialogue bounces back and forth between him having no idea what’s going on and being the smartest person in the room. Also sprinkle in a little of really awkward dialogue where you can tell a grown man is trying to sound like a teenager and failing. He has magical combat skills that can get him out of any situation he happens to be in. And he just happens to be obsessed with a flight simulator game so that when his flight is hijacked he can not only take down the terrorist in a couple of minutes, he can also help land the plane after.
- The foster father is a goddamn idiot. The reason he’s flying to Tel Aviv is to follow a known terrorist and he decides its a good idea to take his newly adopted teenage son with him?
- The secret antiterrorism task force seems super keen to recruit a literal 14 year old child into their ranks. They give him a super secret iPhone that turns out to be a spyPhone (har har) with an AI in it that is pretty much magic. They somehow teach him a new language in a way that he doesn’t know they did and also doesn’t know happened (when he hears someone speaking it it magically changes to English in his head and he hears English when he’s speaking it back even though it comes out of him mouth in the other language). Is the government really so hard up for agents that they have to resort to recruiting literal children?
- The terrorists are simultaneously portrayed as cartoonishly evil stereotypes while also trying to convey the subtlety of why they would be acting the way they are at the same time. They go around shouting all the things that people think a Muslim terrorist is supposed to shout and doing all of the things these terrible people would be expected to do but then try to portray some of them as just young people who have been taken advantage of by terrible people.
- Most of the information about the Muslim faith, terrorism, the governing system of the Middle East, and plane operation is delivered in gigantic exposition dumps. Like surprisingly gigantic considering how short the book is.
-Even thought a large part of the start of the book is completely unnecessary pictures of what the controls of the airplane that gets hijacked looks like, while they are trying to pilot the plane to safety after the attempt to take it over fails, they go into a painful amount of detail about exactly what they are doing to safely land the plane again.
-The action scenes are interesting (mostly to see how ridiculous they are) but they are over way too soon to get any kind of enjoyment out of them. I would say the best one is the first with the bullies but even that is drowning in ridiculous dialogue.
- New country was invented in the Middle East to be the funding source of the group the terrorists belong to. I’ll give it to them that this makes sense though. Don’t need an actual country getting irritated at it for being depicted as funding these kinds of groups.
-They add a plan to start WW3 at the end that I ended up not even caring about. Using hijacked planes to drop bombs and start the war. I guess that might work but I just didn’t care.
I think that’s my main problem with the book. I don’t care. Don’t care about the main characters, don’t care about the terrorists, don’t care about the hijacking. It can be hard to get behind a book when nothing that happens in it matters to you.
Overall like I said I really didn’t like this. There are apparently three other missions in this series but I don’t think I’m going to read them. Supposedly you can read all of these stories in any order but that theory doesn’t really work when there are constant references in this story to the two that can before it. At least the book was super short. That way you don’t have to spend too much of your time reading this thing.
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