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Hail #3
Hail Strike
For those of you who have read both Hail 1 and 2, then you can think of Hail Strike as Kara's revenge. In just about every sense of the word, Kara goes ballistic! Having left Hail without warning, she tracks down the men who killed her parents, and in doing so puts herself in a no-win situation. Will she call Hail to help her or will she find a way to push through with nothing more than a cache of weapons and a truckload of guts. If you love a book that has non-stop action, then congrates - you found it. Welcome aboard the Nucleus. Your stateroom is waiting, so dig in, get comfy and prepare yourself for another healthy does of HAIL revenge, served up with a heaping side of kick ass
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371 pages, ebook
Published July 23, 2018
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Brett Arquette
15 books399 followersB. 1960. Son of Lois Duncan. Worked as Chief Technology Officer.
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July 29, 2019
Around 300 sock puppets have added ratings to Hail Storm. I've emailed Support about the abuse of the GR rating system.
So here's another 1★ for you Brett.
Edit: & the sock puppets are on this book as well. Depending where you live, their ratings are dated the 13th or 14th of December.
So here's another 1★ for you Brett.
Edit: & the sock puppets are on this book as well. Depending where you live, their ratings are dated the 13th or 14th of December.
August 19, 2018
Book three and the best yet. I enjoyed it a lot, nicely paced. Some nice back story on some of the terrorists that Marshall and Kara are trying to find. And some new drone hardware too. Nice interaction between the characters with the bond between Marshall and Kara starting to develop nicely. A good read.
August 17, 2018
Captivating
Thank you for the interesting read ,Kara with all the tricks up her sleeve. Hail with insight to the human physic
Thank you for the interesting read ,Kara with all the tricks up her sleeve. Hail with insight to the human physic
December 14, 2018
"For those of you who have read both Hail 1 and 2, then you can think of Hail Strike as Kara's revenge."
Clearly, the writing has not improved.
Clearly, the writing has not improved.
August 26, 2018
Such great descriptions that you really feel transported into the storyline. This is book 3 in this amazing drone series. Recommend to all.
August 16, 2018
Hail Yes!
The latest throughly entertaining book in his series continues the relationship between Hail and a beautiful CIA agent. Her quest to avenge the terrorist killing of her parents presents Hail an opportunity to test the effectiveness of his group’s latest invention, nonlethal drones. Although the reader can anticipate the outcome, the journey is creative.
The latest throughly entertaining book in his series continues the relationship between Hail and a beautiful CIA agent. Her quest to avenge the terrorist killing of her parents presents Hail an opportunity to test the effectiveness of his group’s latest invention, nonlethal drones. Although the reader can anticipate the outcome, the journey is creative.
September 11, 2018
As I've said in my reviews of the Hail series, I look UP whenever I go outside. Drones scare me as they can do anything! But they make for awesome books! Kara is determined to find and eliminate the men responsible for the death of her parents in the tragic event referred to as "The Five". Dropping off the grid, and especially distancing herself from Marshall Hail, Kara is headstrong and is oblivious to anything that doesn't concern her self imposed mission. Pick up a copy of Hail Strike. Reading the first 2 books would be beneficial, but I seriously recommend reading them first. And keep looking up!
August 12, 2018
Hail Strike. Brett Arquette
Book three in the series. I enjoyed both prior books in this series, but this was the showstopper! Hail and Kara, his CIA officer on board one of his ships has gone rogue. She's hunting one of the terrorists who blew up the airplane her parents were on. Hail also lost his family to a terrorist attack. Their is a common bond between them. Actually more then a bond. This is a stupendous action packed read! Enjoyed tremendously!
Book three in the series. I enjoyed both prior books in this series, but this was the showstopper! Hail and Kara, his CIA officer on board one of his ships has gone rogue. She's hunting one of the terrorists who blew up the airplane her parents were on. Hail also lost his family to a terrorist attack. Their is a common bond between them. Actually more then a bond. This is a stupendous action packed read! Enjoyed tremendously!
August 14, 2018
Interwoven stories, well-written, clever twists. I enjoyed this book quite a lot! I was fortunate to be a Beta reader, and was able to help ferret out typos and provide other editorial comments, which was grand fun. The endings always leave me wanting more!
October 12, 2019
Excellent techno-thriller. Brett Arquette has delivered an excellent addition to his Hail series.
May 21, 2021
Brett Arquette's Hail Strike (2018) is the third in his four-book series about Marshall Hail, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist searching for revenge. The books all tell good stories that keep your attention, though there are occasional hiccups that mar the flow, hiccups like typos or incomplete sentences that are common in self-publishing, or referring to a Marine officer as "Lieutenant Commander" and "fighter pilot" when he is a Lieutenant and helicopter pilot. Fortunately, these slips are minor and aren't so common as to affect the reader's interest in the story.
The seminal event driving the Marshall Hail series is a terrorist event 20 years earlier called "The Five," in which five shoulder-fired missiles were used to shoot down five American commercial airliners, each as they took off from one of five different locations around the globe. It was a spectacularly synchronized and effective terrorist act that killed Hail's wife and children and galvanized his anti-terrorism activities.
The Five attack was the largest of many terrorist attacks at the time that got international attention, excluding the real world Twin Towers attack. Another was the murder of eleven mountain climbers on Nanga Parat, the fourth most deadly of the Himalayan mountains. That attack was a terrorist mission to capture a Chinese-American citizen named Chen Honglu, who could be used as currency to buy the freedom of a top Taliban commander held by the Americans. A third was a convoy of Shias travelling in Pakistan's Khyber Pass. All of these attacks were spearheaded by a Pakistani named Farwan Shallah, of whom more later.
Marshall is massively wealthy from his invention of a "traveling wave" nuclear reactor created to be completely safe and to bring down the costs of energy, especially in less-developed countries. He now roams the oceans on the Hail Neutron, his humongous cargo/warship filled with firepower and largely manned by the young nerds who are his wards—their role is to invent and pilot the miniature drones and other exotic devices that extend the ship's eyes and ears, and to send equally miniaturized weapons to kill those who need to die. A duplicate vessel named the Hail Proton is also in Hil's fleet.
Hail's weapons have a long reach, and he knows everyone from the U.S. President down to the room stewards on the Hail Nucleus. Among his true pleasures—in addition to killing terrorists—is sending miniature drones to bug the President while she's sipping tea in the White House Rose Garden. And he's a great father figure for the parentless nerds that are his wards and serve as techies creating and flying his many drones.
Right now, Hail is all business. Three highly-regarded U. S. Marine pilots have been dishonorably discharged because of something Marshall did to misdirect their helicopters. He feels responsible and he's hired the trio to be part of his team. The have just arrived on Hail Nucleus and he is welcoming them. The head of the trio is Lieutenant Foster Nolan.
As the book opens, Hail Neutron is moored along with Hail Protom at Lomé, the capital of Togo, a tiny country sandwiched between Ghana and Nigeria. Hail is having a drone-to-President conversation with President Joanna West, whom he has happily disturbed while she has her tea in the Rose Garden. He asks her for a quantity of weapons-grade anthrax. She tells him she'll talk to her advisors if he shoos off and doesn't bother her. He shoos.
The Background
In addition to Marshall Hail and President Joanna Weston, the cast includes the President's chief advisors—Eric Spearman, Director of National Intelligence; General Ford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Hail's eternal nemesis, Jarrett Pepper, Director of CIA; and Trevor Rodgers, the President's personal advisor. In their meeting with the President they split on a vote to deliver the anthrax to Hail; it's her decision. We never know tha answer.
At a lower level we have Kara Ramey, the level-10, gorgeously beautiful red-headed CIA agent who has become Marshall Hail's main squeeze. Like Hail, Kara is driven by revenge: her parents were on one of the airliners shot down in The Five. Kara has "gone rogue" to track down a Russian arms dealer named Victor Kornev. Her motive is both professional and personal—Kornev not only arms terrorists and other bad people, he was the sorce of the weapons used in The Five.
Kara finds Kornev at one of two adjacent safe houses he owns in Uzbekistan. He's the only resident of the safe houses and he moves between them through underground tunnels so his precise location is never known. But Kara finds him and leaves him tied up and with no food or water in one of his tunnels. Not long after this, Hail takes his Gulfstream from Lomé to Uzbekistan to find Kara. He locates Kornev's housing cluster and finds the arms dealer in the tunnel, alive but very dehydrated and covered in his own poop. Hail has him taken to an Uzbekistan hospital and follows him after his release. After all parties have left Kornev's safe houses, Kara goes in and boobytraps the tunnels using the supply of explosives Kornev has cached there.
Kara's interrogation of Kornev had revealed the name of the high-level terrorists who had organized The Five. They are two brothers, Zain and Naveed Shallah, the sons of Farwan Shallah. Farwan was a Sunni Pakistani whose hatred of Americans almost reached the level of his hatred for Shias. He brought his sons up in his image. thirteen years ago the two boys, raised in a cave in the Pakistani outback, were sent to killing school in Pakistan to learn to serve Allah—apparently Allah can't kill anyone on his (or her?) own.
Once they are trained in Killing 101, Zain and Naveed split career paths. Naveed stays on as a soldier for Allah; he becomes inured to murder and is a carbon copy of his zealot father. Zain goes to the University of Zurich to get a degree in finance and returns to Peshawar to start a bank devoted solely to cleaning money for the cause. Naveed and Zain are, respectively, the brawn and brains of Farwan Shallah's organization, and they were the men directly responsible for killing Kara's parents.
Kara's interrogation of Victor Kornev revealed the role played by Zain and Naveed in The Five. Naveed was with his parents heading a terrorist group in Afghanistan when they were visited by a B-2 bomber. The B-2 dropped a "bunker buster" bomb on their position and Naveed was the only survivor. Oddly, Zain's graduation from the University of Zurich was in progress during the bunker bombing in Afghanistan that killed his parents. This was the trigger prompting him to lend his financial assistance to Naveed's plan for The Five.
Thus, Zain and Naveed were the men directly responsible for killing Kara's parents. So Kara is now off to Peshawar to beard the Shallahs in their nest. She sets up an observation site near Zain Shallah's mansion in Peshawar. Zain's Swiss wife has left him to return to Zurich, leaving behind their two children—a son and a daughter. The son is precius to Zain; the daughter is little more than an inconvenience. From her hidey-hole Kara records the movements of Zain's family and entourage. Her focus is on the housekeeper's daily schedule; her plan is to replace her one morning, arrive at the mansion masked in the housekeeper's burqa. and kidnap the children. This will bring Zain out into the open where she can take care of him. Naveed will be dealt with next.
While all of this is happening, Victor Kornev is free after his hospitalization in Uzbekistan for dehydration and poopiness. Hail has been on Victor 's trail, tracking him with drones. When Kornev returns to Peshawar, Hail is right there behind him. Kornev's first stop in Peshawar is at the office of the police inspector, who is on Kornev's payroll. Kornev anticipates Kara's bobbytrapping of the safe houses and their tunnels, so he requests—and gets—four of the Inspector's "worst" (most expendable) men to go with him to investigate his safe houses and their tunnels. He sends them ahead of him into the tunnels and all four are killed by Kara's boobytraps. Kornev survives.
So the lineup is simple: Rogue CIA agent Kara Ramey is luring terrorist-financier Zain Shallah into a trap using his children as a dangle; Naveed Shallah is next on Kara's list; Hail is keeping tabs on Victor Kornev; Kornev knows that everyone is after him; Hail Nucleus is in a state of high activity keeping drones aloft to keep tabs on bad people; the President is still getting unwelcome visits in the Rose Garden by Marshal Hail's drones; and the whiff of anthrax is in the air.
All the pieces are on the chess board and it's time to play.
The seminal event driving the Marshall Hail series is a terrorist event 20 years earlier called "The Five," in which five shoulder-fired missiles were used to shoot down five American commercial airliners, each as they took off from one of five different locations around the globe. It was a spectacularly synchronized and effective terrorist act that killed Hail's wife and children and galvanized his anti-terrorism activities.
The Five attack was the largest of many terrorist attacks at the time that got international attention, excluding the real world Twin Towers attack. Another was the murder of eleven mountain climbers on Nanga Parat, the fourth most deadly of the Himalayan mountains. That attack was a terrorist mission to capture a Chinese-American citizen named Chen Honglu, who could be used as currency to buy the freedom of a top Taliban commander held by the Americans. A third was a convoy of Shias travelling in Pakistan's Khyber Pass. All of these attacks were spearheaded by a Pakistani named Farwan Shallah, of whom more later.
Marshall is massively wealthy from his invention of a "traveling wave" nuclear reactor created to be completely safe and to bring down the costs of energy, especially in less-developed countries. He now roams the oceans on the Hail Neutron, his humongous cargo/warship filled with firepower and largely manned by the young nerds who are his wards—their role is to invent and pilot the miniature drones and other exotic devices that extend the ship's eyes and ears, and to send equally miniaturized weapons to kill those who need to die. A duplicate vessel named the Hail Proton is also in Hil's fleet.
Hail's weapons have a long reach, and he knows everyone from the U.S. President down to the room stewards on the Hail Nucleus. Among his true pleasures—in addition to killing terrorists—is sending miniature drones to bug the President while she's sipping tea in the White House Rose Garden. And he's a great father figure for the parentless nerds that are his wards and serve as techies creating and flying his many drones.
Right now, Hail is all business. Three highly-regarded U. S. Marine pilots have been dishonorably discharged because of something Marshall did to misdirect their helicopters. He feels responsible and he's hired the trio to be part of his team. The have just arrived on Hail Nucleus and he is welcoming them. The head of the trio is Lieutenant Foster Nolan.
As the book opens, Hail Neutron is moored along with Hail Protom at Lomé, the capital of Togo, a tiny country sandwiched between Ghana and Nigeria. Hail is having a drone-to-President conversation with President Joanna West, whom he has happily disturbed while she has her tea in the Rose Garden. He asks her for a quantity of weapons-grade anthrax. She tells him she'll talk to her advisors if he shoos off and doesn't bother her. He shoos.
The Background
In addition to Marshall Hail and President Joanna Weston, the cast includes the President's chief advisors—Eric Spearman, Director of National Intelligence; General Ford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Hail's eternal nemesis, Jarrett Pepper, Director of CIA; and Trevor Rodgers, the President's personal advisor. In their meeting with the President they split on a vote to deliver the anthrax to Hail; it's her decision. We never know tha answer.
At a lower level we have Kara Ramey, the level-10, gorgeously beautiful red-headed CIA agent who has become Marshall Hail's main squeeze. Like Hail, Kara is driven by revenge: her parents were on one of the airliners shot down in The Five. Kara has "gone rogue" to track down a Russian arms dealer named Victor Kornev. Her motive is both professional and personal—Kornev not only arms terrorists and other bad people, he was the sorce of the weapons used in The Five.
Kara finds Kornev at one of two adjacent safe houses he owns in Uzbekistan. He's the only resident of the safe houses and he moves between them through underground tunnels so his precise location is never known. But Kara finds him and leaves him tied up and with no food or water in one of his tunnels. Not long after this, Hail takes his Gulfstream from Lomé to Uzbekistan to find Kara. He locates Kornev's housing cluster and finds the arms dealer in the tunnel, alive but very dehydrated and covered in his own poop. Hail has him taken to an Uzbekistan hospital and follows him after his release. After all parties have left Kornev's safe houses, Kara goes in and boobytraps the tunnels using the supply of explosives Kornev has cached there.
Kara's interrogation of Kornev had revealed the name of the high-level terrorists who had organized The Five. They are two brothers, Zain and Naveed Shallah, the sons of Farwan Shallah. Farwan was a Sunni Pakistani whose hatred of Americans almost reached the level of his hatred for Shias. He brought his sons up in his image. thirteen years ago the two boys, raised in a cave in the Pakistani outback, were sent to killing school in Pakistan to learn to serve Allah—apparently Allah can't kill anyone on his (or her?) own.
Once they are trained in Killing 101, Zain and Naveed split career paths. Naveed stays on as a soldier for Allah; he becomes inured to murder and is a carbon copy of his zealot father. Zain goes to the University of Zurich to get a degree in finance and returns to Peshawar to start a bank devoted solely to cleaning money for the cause. Naveed and Zain are, respectively, the brawn and brains of Farwan Shallah's organization, and they were the men directly responsible for killing Kara's parents.
Kara's interrogation of Victor Kornev revealed the role played by Zain and Naveed in The Five. Naveed was with his parents heading a terrorist group in Afghanistan when they were visited by a B-2 bomber. The B-2 dropped a "bunker buster" bomb on their position and Naveed was the only survivor. Oddly, Zain's graduation from the University of Zurich was in progress during the bunker bombing in Afghanistan that killed his parents. This was the trigger prompting him to lend his financial assistance to Naveed's plan for The Five.
Thus, Zain and Naveed were the men directly responsible for killing Kara's parents. So Kara is now off to Peshawar to beard the Shallahs in their nest. She sets up an observation site near Zain Shallah's mansion in Peshawar. Zain's Swiss wife has left him to return to Zurich, leaving behind their two children—a son and a daughter. The son is precius to Zain; the daughter is little more than an inconvenience. From her hidey-hole Kara records the movements of Zain's family and entourage. Her focus is on the housekeeper's daily schedule; her plan is to replace her one morning, arrive at the mansion masked in the housekeeper's burqa. and kidnap the children. This will bring Zain out into the open where she can take care of him. Naveed will be dealt with next.
While all of this is happening, Victor Kornev is free after his hospitalization in Uzbekistan for dehydration and poopiness. Hail has been on Victor 's trail, tracking him with drones. When Kornev returns to Peshawar, Hail is right there behind him. Kornev's first stop in Peshawar is at the office of the police inspector, who is on Kornev's payroll. Kornev anticipates Kara's bobbytrapping of the safe houses and their tunnels, so he requests—and gets—four of the Inspector's "worst" (most expendable) men to go with him to investigate his safe houses and their tunnels. He sends them ahead of him into the tunnels and all four are killed by Kara's boobytraps. Kornev survives.
So the lineup is simple: Rogue CIA agent Kara Ramey is luring terrorist-financier Zain Shallah into a trap using his children as a dangle; Naveed Shallah is next on Kara's list; Hail is keeping tabs on Victor Kornev; Kornev knows that everyone is after him; Hail Nucleus is in a state of high activity keeping drones aloft to keep tabs on bad people; the President is still getting unwelcome visits in the Rose Garden by Marshal Hail's drones; and the whiff of anthrax is in the air.
All the pieces are on the chess board and it's time to play.
January 2, 2019
Full disclosure: I have received a beta version of the book for free, in exchange of an honest review.
The book directly follows the first two of the series. Contrary to the first books, the characters are not totally static and immutable anymore. They are finally starting to change and grow, which is positive.
On the other hand, though, some scenes and details are still a bit unlikely and "over the top". But that's nothing new.
Overall, if you liked the first two books, you'll like this one as well. The same mix of high tech, and action, the same (but growing) set of characters.
The book directly follows the first two of the series. Contrary to the first books, the characters are not totally static and immutable anymore. They are finally starting to change and grow, which is positive.
On the other hand, though, some scenes and details are still a bit unlikely and "over the top". But that's nothing new.
Overall, if you liked the first two books, you'll like this one as well. The same mix of high tech, and action, the same (but growing) set of characters.
November 13, 2018
Loved it!
Really enjoyed this installment of the Hail books. The humor is dry and perfect to lighten up the tough moments of the story matter. I truly wish Hail Industries was real. Can’t wait for the next.
Really enjoyed this installment of the Hail books. The humor is dry and perfect to lighten up the tough moments of the story matter. I truly wish Hail Industries was real. Can’t wait for the next.
March 25, 2019
Another good one
So glad I found this book series and Author. Will keep on reading this series and trying out other books he puts out.
So glad I found this book series and Author. Will keep on reading this series and trying out other books he puts out.
September 30, 2020
Another good installment of the Hail series. Book three had a good mixture of action and technical; I’m still waiting for the main character’s relationship to develop more, but overall a solid read.
March 4, 2019
A Measure Of Payback
In Hail Strike, Kara has gone douche from the CIA, determine ed to avenge her parents' death. The target is an international banker who is the front man for a terrorist organization.
The book is readable - even enjoyable in parts. You should read the first book in the Hail series before reading this title. But if you missed the second title you have no need for it before reading Hail Strike. And that's a big part of my problem with the book.
Like the previous volume, Hail Strike breaks no new from d for the characters. Hail, his crew, Kara and the other supporting players were nicely developed in the first book in the series. But nothing new is learned about any of them in entries two or three. The book is 100% plot driven. It's an OK plot, but not compelling. And the new Hail Technologies gadgets that we're a compelling part of the first two titles no longer deliver a big Wow.
While I'm sure Arquette has more Hail books in the pipeline I'm not sure I will make an effort to read the next installment unless other reviewers convince me he has moved past mere storytelling and into character development.
In Hail Strike, Kara has gone douche from the CIA, determine ed to avenge her parents' death. The target is an international banker who is the front man for a terrorist organization.
The book is readable - even enjoyable in parts. You should read the first book in the Hail series before reading this title. But if you missed the second title you have no need for it before reading Hail Strike. And that's a big part of my problem with the book.
Like the previous volume, Hail Strike breaks no new from d for the characters. Hail, his crew, Kara and the other supporting players were nicely developed in the first book in the series. But nothing new is learned about any of them in entries two or three. The book is 100% plot driven. It's an OK plot, but not compelling. And the new Hail Technologies gadgets that we're a compelling part of the first two titles no longer deliver a big Wow.
While I'm sure Arquette has more Hail books in the pipeline I'm not sure I will make an effort to read the next installment unless other reviewers convince me he has moved past mere storytelling and into character development.
July 28, 2019
Proofreader needed
"Satisfied she had done all she could, she turned her attention to defending the remainder of the home against the imminent attack. Kornev had not skimped on the construction of his homes. Both his homes’ interior and exterior walls were composed largely of cinder blocks filled with concretee, althought the areas directly under windows were not filled with concreate.During the home’s contruction, Kara determined that the window headers had been installed before the cinderblocks were filled with concreate. Therefore, under every window in the home was nothing more than hallow cinderblocks just waiting to the blown out. The walls, like the bulletproof vests attached to the bedframes, could stop heavy gunfire."
I read that and started wondering how many different ways there are to spell concrete, what hallow cinderblocks are, and how they can "waiting to the blown out." If you can get past stuff like that, the plot, characters, and setting are not bad, and sometimes even approach pretty good.
"Satisfied she had done all she could, she turned her attention to defending the remainder of the home against the imminent attack. Kornev had not skimped on the construction of his homes. Both his homes’ interior and exterior walls were composed largely of cinder blocks filled with concretee, althought the areas directly under windows were not filled with concreate.During the home’s contruction, Kara determined that the window headers had been installed before the cinderblocks were filled with concreate. Therefore, under every window in the home was nothing more than hallow cinderblocks just waiting to the blown out. The walls, like the bulletproof vests attached to the bedframes, could stop heavy gunfire."
I read that and started wondering how many different ways there are to spell concrete, what hallow cinderblocks are, and how they can "waiting to the blown out." If you can get past stuff like that, the plot, characters, and setting are not bad, and sometimes even approach pretty good.
January 8, 2019
I LOVED Brett Arquette's first two books. I couldn't tear through them fast enough, and basically felt I found the next Jack Reacher - for when Lee Child retires. However, this one disappointing me slightly. The action is top notch - it picks up exactly where we left off in book 2. Hail is on the boat, Kara has gone rouge and the CIA now knows this and everyone else has their own same but different agendas. However as chaos ensues which is entertaining, as we near the last quarter of the book, the end is tied up w a super neat bow. Everything falls into place in the most neat and organized way that was just so disappointing. Nothing is open and I was reading it like of course that happened. I think it's good to have a resolution but now I am sort of uninterested in a 4th book which makes me bummed bc the first two were incredible.
October 31, 2021
This was a great action story with a touch of syfy and had some unique ideas. I recommend this to readers who enjoy fast pace storyline and military feel. The idea of having multiple drones with big machine guns and cameras being able to kill terrorists and protect America is awesome. Having many great drone missions and action throughout the book makes it a fun and fast read. The character development in the book continues to evolve to the very end letting the reader grow attached to the characters and root for the heroes. Looking forward to reading his next adventures.
October 31, 2021
Book three in the series. I enjoyed both prior books in this series, but this was the showstopper! Hail and Kara, his CIA officer on board one of his ships has gone rogue. She's hunting one of the terrorists who blew up the airplane her parents were on. Hail also lost his family to a terrorist attack. Their is a common bond between them. Actually more then a bond. This is a stupendous action packed read! Enjoyed tremendously!
October 31, 2021
Book three in the series. I enjoyed both prior books in this series, but this was the showstopper! Hail and Kara, his CIA officer on board one of his ships has gone rogue. She's hunting one of the terrorists who blew up the airplane her parents were on. Hail also lost his family to a terrorist attack. Their is a common bond between them. Actually more then a bond. This is a stupendous action packed read! Enjoyed tremendously!
October 31, 2021
Interesting twist on fighting terrorism. Everything is done using drones and other high tech stuff, in a very covert way. The story was very believable except for the Navy pilot who goes rogue. The best part of the story is the development of the two main characters, Hail and CIA agent Ramey. Both are broken and both have major issues. Both are highly capable and I look forward to the development of their relationship in the future books.
October 31, 2021
Hail Strike is almost impossible to put down. It moves along from one exciting situation to the next. If you are looking for non-stop thrills without the occasional boring fluff that you might find in other covert ops books, then this is for you. It also is not excessively violent (you know, gory when it doesn't have to be). I'm reading the teen (or classroom) version and I think it will do well with that age group. All I want to know is when is the movie coming out! :)
October 31, 2021
This was my third book from this author. I found his work easy to read and follow. The story made sense, even though the technical parts of it were amazing but not impossible. The characters were well done, with enough depth that they aided the story. Editing was great, I'm kind of a grammar wiz, at least that's what my students say. The one problem I had (sort of), I read the end of the book late, the anxiety shot up, and "The End". Now how was I supposed to sleep!?
October 31, 2021
I seldom write book reviews on Amazon as the books are generally just "okay", and I don't want to either beat up an author or praise them unless they well-deserve the criticism either way. I promise you this book deserves the praise! I read it as quickly as I could over the course of 3 days as I still had to work and sleep! It was good enough that I MAY have taken a little longer on my lunch breaks to finish a particular chapter.
October 31, 2021
While this is far from my usual favorite genre, I have already begun recommending this to my friends as a wicked good read. Great characters are woven into a fast paced and tense adventure. Spies, drones, military types, and political intrigue are part of the plot, but there's also a group of nerdy teen-aged heroes and heroines to spice up the mix. When you add to that a locale that is pertinent to today's concerns, you've got a winner
October 31, 2021
The latest throughly entertaining book in his series continues the relationship between Hail and a beautiful CIA agent. Her quest to avenge the terrorist killing of her parents presents Hail an opportunity to test the effectiveness of his group’s latest invention, nonlethal drones. Although the reader can anticipate the outcome, the journey is creative.
October 31, 2021
I found the whole idea of a ship-born, highly intelligent, "family" oriented group doing what they do fascinating. I enjoyed the writing style with a few small suggestions that I'll try and contact the author about. I recommend this book for anyone liking paramilitary action stories with good interpersonal situations.
October 31, 2021
Marshal Hail lost his family in one of the five jets destroyed by terrorists. He knows know who sold the weaponry to them. He has a huge tanker, that is actually his base of operations. A very sophisticated crew....they utilize drones with capabilities that are off the charts. This is an extremely well written and very believable novel. I'm hoping there is a sequel!! Enjoyed tremendously!
October 31, 2021
I received this book on the promise of a review and I wasn't expecting much. Boy, was I wrong! I could not put this down. Mr. Arquette combines well-developed characters with a bang up plot, lots of stuff for the techno geeks, and non-stop action. I am really hoping he continues this as a series. Buy it and read it, but don't expect to get much done after you begin.
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