Smart Bomb

Nomad #3

by David Alexander

Smart Bomb by David Alexander released on Feb 22, 1993 is available now for purchase.

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

David Alexander began writing early in life and began writing uncoaxed and spontaneously. His fledgling appearance in print dates to a sonnet published in a New York City daily newspaper when David was in elementary school in Brooklyn. Between then and today, he has written and published in virtually every literary category, including novels, novelettes, short fiction, poetry, essays and film scripts. He received his early education via the New York City public school system. He later attended Columbia University in New York City and Sorbonne University in Paris, France.

In addition to fiction and creative nonfiction, Alexander has written technical papers as a defense analyst for some of the world's most prestigious international defense publications on high-technology combat systems and their strategic and tactical applications. He is as conversant with the global corporate and civilian defense sector as he is with the military side. Few can justly claim the scope and breadth of his knowledge of and familiarity with the international defense community, ranging from weapon systems to global strategic policy.

As an author, Alexander can justly claim to have pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. Never has he benefited from anybody's patronage. There have been no wealthy relatives with connections, no connections by marriage; no favors traded in secret, no hooked-up friends to fast-track his career. Nor has anybody but David Alexander penned the titles published over David Alexander's byline. Alexander is a resident of Brooklyn Heights, where he has lived and written for many years.

Reviews

[Wayne · Rating 2 out of 5]

The crux of this book is that Force Three, a group of master criminals high-jack a multi billion dollar submarine to hold the world hostage. They blow up a government installation in the USA. They want NATO to hand over a third world country in Africa to start their empire. Enter Nomad to save the day.

This is the third book in the series. I read these things out of order but I don't think it matters much. After reading all four books in this series, I can say I won't miss it much. I like a lot of other books by David Alexander, Nomad though, was always hit or miss. It seems that the author picks a word in each book and runs with it. One book it was telemetry. He repeated the word over and over till I just made up words when I saw it for some variety. This book it was cybersphere.

Another downfall in this series was all the damn acronyms. Almost every paragraph has an acronym. I couldn't keep them all straight. Every weapon. Every ship. Every thing with more than two words, acronym. You can do much better for you'r action fix.

[Frank Cavanaugh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Juvenile James Bond 5/10