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Larry Bond's First Team #2
Angels of Wrath
New York Times bestselling authors Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice deliver fresh thrills and unexpected twists in this latest installment of their electrifying series, Larry Bond's First Angels of Wrath.
Led by CIA agent par excellence Bob Ferguson, the Team pitches in to help the FBI investigate a radical group of zealots who want to create a "post-Christian" era by instigating a catastrophic showdown in Jerusalem. But Ferg and company soon discover the cult has strange connections to the Iraqi resistance and to a Syrian arms dealer. Enlisting the help of Thera Majed, a beautiful paramilitary and an expert on Middle eastern relations, the team breaks up to track each link. They seek to stop anything catastrophic from happening before the President arrives in Iraq for the next round of elections. Their quarries lead Team members into an immensely complicated world of fanatical terrorists, each potentially dangerous. . . but who among them is the next to strike? Uncertain of the most imminent threat, the Team finds that they have landed in the midst of an operation headed by Israel's famous Mossad, and are ordered to cooperate with the Israelis . . . but are the Israelis cooperating with them?
Unsure of their allies, the Team realizes that they are on the trail of two completely different attacks whose targets are thousands of miles apart. Both operations are intended to trigger a vast religious war. With the clock ticking down, can the team extinguish the spark of Armageddon?
Led by CIA agent par excellence Bob Ferguson, the Team pitches in to help the FBI investigate a radical group of zealots who want to create a "post-Christian" era by instigating a catastrophic showdown in Jerusalem. But Ferg and company soon discover the cult has strange connections to the Iraqi resistance and to a Syrian arms dealer. Enlisting the help of Thera Majed, a beautiful paramilitary and an expert on Middle eastern relations, the team breaks up to track each link. They seek to stop anything catastrophic from happening before the President arrives in Iraq for the next round of elections. Their quarries lead Team members into an immensely complicated world of fanatical terrorists, each potentially dangerous. . . but who among them is the next to strike? Uncertain of the most imminent threat, the Team finds that they have landed in the midst of an operation headed by Israel's famous Mossad, and are ordered to cooperate with the Israelis . . . but are the Israelis cooperating with them?
Unsure of their allies, the Team realizes that they are on the trail of two completely different attacks whose targets are thousands of miles apart. Both operations are intended to trigger a vast religious war. With the clock ticking down, can the team extinguish the spark of Armageddon?
448 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 10, 2006
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Larry Bond
75 books412 followersLarry Bond is the author of several bestselling military thrillers, including Crash Dive, Cold Choices, Dangerous Ground, Red Phoenix and the Larry Bond’s First Team and Larry Bond’s Red Dragon Rising series. He was a naval officer for six years, serving four on a destroyer and two on shore duty in the Washington DC area. He's also worked as a warfare analyst and antisubmarine technology expert, and he now writes and designs computer games, including Harpoon and Command at Sea. He makes his home in Springfield, Virginia.
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February 18, 2021
I recently inve$ted some of my stimulus money in two books that are writers continuing in the genre of two legends in this field ... and was so disappointed and even angry with how they were written, I contemplated returning them to the store! Then I picked this one up on a whim while in line at Dollar General. I LOVE IT AND WANT TO READ MORE IN THE SERIES!!! There are clearly-defined good and bad guys; the baddies do get their comeuppance. There are heroes. There are modern-day realities. There are new people to love, believe in, and follow along with. More, please!!!
May 9, 2017
This book was fairly well written. It was a good political thriller with enough fanaticism leave an cult thrown in for good measure. Not as good as Larry Barnes submarine books, not a Tom Clancy that's for sure. But still a good read.
November 23, 2019
I'm a fan of Larry Bond and several of his other novels are top notch but this was a dud. The story was far too convoluted and stuck on a treadmill through many chapters. Too many minor characters and I just couldn't make any emotional connection to Ferg or his team.
March 9, 2018
This was an OK novel. It was well written and enjoyable but a little hard to follow. A good time passer but not up to the quality of some of his other efforts
April 29, 2018
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October 28, 2020Not very good.
February 27, 2023
Good story of Ferguson and team hunting and fighting terrorists in the Middle East. A little slow in the early are of the book but the second half picks up the pace and is action packed.
August 26, 2023
Super book loved it.
January 28, 2021
Angels Wrath, book 2 of The Team series by Larry Bond is a big improvement on the first instalment of this series. Yes there is still the strained relationship between the previously autonomous Ferguson and the White House council put in charge and she is still doing too much field work, but this does impinge of the story the way it did in the first book.
For this story we enter the murky world of illegal arms sales and home grown terrorism. The Angels of Wrath are a quasi-religious terrorist group that believe they can bring about peace by massive bloodshed directed at the major pillars of faith. Ferguson and his team track arms dealers around the Middle East sometimes aided by and sometime hindered by Mossad. The Team discover that two missiles may be in play, a Soviet era ‘Siren’ missile improved by a GPS steering package that is on the market and Scud missiles. They have less evidence for the Scud by have discovered the unique fuel used by the Scuds is also being smuggled into the area.
Who /what is the target? Does it have anything to do with the President’s visit to the region? Can Ferguson and his team unpick the clues to be in the right place at the right time to stop the attacks?
Due to this series being about a small Special Forces team there are none of the large scale battles that Bond does so well, but the small skirmishes are as one would expect well crafted and the book moves along at a reasonable pace.
For this story we enter the murky world of illegal arms sales and home grown terrorism. The Angels of Wrath are a quasi-religious terrorist group that believe they can bring about peace by massive bloodshed directed at the major pillars of faith. Ferguson and his team track arms dealers around the Middle East sometimes aided by and sometime hindered by Mossad. The Team discover that two missiles may be in play, a Soviet era ‘Siren’ missile improved by a GPS steering package that is on the market and Scud missiles. They have less evidence for the Scud by have discovered the unique fuel used by the Scuds is also being smuggled into the area.
Who /what is the target? Does it have anything to do with the President’s visit to the region? Can Ferguson and his team unpick the clues to be in the right place at the right time to stop the attacks?
Due to this series being about a small Special Forces team there are none of the large scale battles that Bond does so well, but the small skirmishes are as one would expect well crafted and the book moves along at a reasonable pace.
December 26, 2011
I buy Larry Bonds' novels because, in the past, I found them interesting and they kept me reading.
This is one of his "also with" that tells me he had someone else do all the research and outline and he loafed along to complete it.
The story line is a bit confusing. He has some wierdo sect in America dedicated to somehow ending the world as we know it.
There is a somewhat unique hero who likes to do things his way and resents the amateur the President has assigned to overlook his activities.
There is some other vague bad guy Iraqi.
It turns out that the true reason is that some ex-Mossad sicko wants to use a rocket to attack Mecca as a payback for the loss of his family.
In the end, the story is confusing, not well structured and hard to follow. It took me at least 5 times longer to read than others.
This is one of his "also with" that tells me he had someone else do all the research and outline and he loafed along to complete it.
The story line is a bit confusing. He has some wierdo sect in America dedicated to somehow ending the world as we know it.
There is a somewhat unique hero who likes to do things his way and resents the amateur the President has assigned to overlook his activities.
There is some other vague bad guy Iraqi.
It turns out that the true reason is that some ex-Mossad sicko wants to use a rocket to attack Mecca as a payback for the loss of his family.
In the end, the story is confusing, not well structured and hard to follow. It took me at least 5 times longer to read than others.
June 15, 2016
This book was not very attention grabbing. It started out really attention pulling, but after a while it just became boring description. It is a good read if your into lengthy militaristic books, but even for a militaristic book this is kind of long. It desperately tried to grab the readers attention by killing off a character but even that didn't do its job. I don't mean to make this book to sound terrible, it just isn't the book for me.
March 7, 2009
This one was a complex stoy but one you knew would work out in the end. I started it months ago and found myself finishing a dozen books befor eI finished this one. That being said as I finished I knew I wanted to read the next one, you have got to love Ferg.
June 5, 2012
Confusing and badly structured.
The double plotlines got tangled up pretty quickly. Also, while in Iraq, two of the Team members pick up some annoying journalist that tags along and gets himself killed.
The double plotlines got tangled up pretty quickly. Also, while in Iraq, two of the Team members pick up some annoying journalist that tags along and gets himself killed.
February 8, 2013
Very poor book, disjointed and confusing storyline. There is no flow to the book and plots and locations seem to change rapidly and without explanation. The other books in the First Team series are better but I would just recommend reading A Vince Flynn novel instead.
May 19, 2008
Great time waster
July 16, 2012
Not for me. Loved the books on submarine warfare - but not these.
October 21, 2012
An average military thriller.
June 17, 2016
Fast narration with good dialogue. I liked the characters
July 26, 2016
Disjointed, convoluted, no build up of tension, central character is an a-hole...not a good book
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February 12, 2018Good read but it felt long and convoluted. Kind of a James Bond character but with more consistent supporting characters. The first book in this series that I have read.
April 28, 2017
I found it hard to follow.I'm still not sure of the plot. But I am not a huge fan of this genre. I really liked Ferg.
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