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Swamp war
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192 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1973
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February 14, 2024
Alan Caillou wrote the Colonel Tobin books against the backdrop of the political and social unrest of the late 1960s and early 1970s across the world. All the books in the series touched on some aspect of those issues. Swamp War uses the unrest here at home as its setting. Many of us remember those days when groups such as the Weather Underground, c0-founded by Bill Ayers, advisor to and co-author with Barrack Obama, or the Black Panthers were actively bombing government offices and buildings, universities across the country. I was a child in Wisconsin at the time and someone parked a VW Bug full of explosives Sterling Hall at UW-Madison, killing one researcher. This is the world where Swamp War.
Simon Kirby, an anti-American firebrand has created the Committee for Anti-American Activities and set up shop in the Florida Everglades, recruiting malcontents from across the world, determined to bring Amercia and capitalism to its knees. Local authorities have tried to root them out without any success, then the National Guard with the same results. Loathe to bring the actual US Army in, the government sends for the Private Army of Colonel Tobin. That small, but deadly, fighting force that governments call on when all other alternatives have been exhausted.
This is probably the weakest of all the Colonel Tobin books I've read. There is the usual positioning of all the players and armies, with a lot of focus placed on the intelligence gathering. However the final climax literally is about two pages of action. A very lackluster payoff. There are a few other weak parts: having Americans using obvious British expressions like "Damn your eyes..." and too much is given to young women/girls who are alluring without caring about it and offer themselves up to willingly. Not a great entry, but I'm keeping it because I want the collection.
Simon Kirby, an anti-American firebrand has created the Committee for Anti-American Activities and set up shop in the Florida Everglades, recruiting malcontents from across the world, determined to bring Amercia and capitalism to its knees. Local authorities have tried to root them out without any success, then the National Guard with the same results. Loathe to bring the actual US Army in, the government sends for the Private Army of Colonel Tobin. That small, but deadly, fighting force that governments call on when all other alternatives have been exhausted.
This is probably the weakest of all the Colonel Tobin books I've read. There is the usual positioning of all the players and armies, with a lot of focus placed on the intelligence gathering. However the final climax literally is about two pages of action. A very lackluster payoff. There are a few other weak parts: having Americans using obvious British expressions like "Damn your eyes..." and too much is given to young women/girls who are alluring without caring about it and offer themselves up to willingly. Not a great entry, but I'm keeping it because I want the collection.
December 24, 2008
Number 5 in the series, but the only one I've read, or intend to read. Not very good.
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