The review below speaks volumes for this book, a reality-based war on terror novel.
"A novel in the best tradition of the works of Frederick Forsyth and Dan Brown, Killing Sharks: De Profundis, by Eric Wentz, is a thriller that takes the reader from the desolate mountains of the FATA on the Afghan-Pakistani border to the warm waters of the Caribbean and the base prison at Guantanamo, Cuba. Navy SEAL, Lieutenant Commander Grant Chisolm, races against the timing of suicide bombers and through the murky world of the modern war on terrorism and the backwaters of the Cold War. As the terror plot unfolds, Chisolm and his unlikely Cuban allies combine forces to thwart an audacious Al-Qaeda plan to attack the American base from the sea, under the sea, in the air and on land. The reader of Killing Sharks is in the good hands of a capable and knowledgeable author and a talented writer. Wentz’s work is authentic. It’s the product of Navy Officer who has seen Guantanamo and the world-wide war on terror at first hand. Wentz also has a solid grasp of history and of world cultures that resonates in this novel to add both depth and nuance to this adventure. Wentz has a gift for writing vividly and descriptively and his narrative captures both beauty and the grimness of barbarous attacks, torture and sudden death. On one level Killing Sharks is a well-paced and satisfying adventure and thriller. Part detective story, part mystery novel, part history, the novel is a deft combination of genres laced tightly into a remarkable yet credible story line. Wentz has also layered this novel with carefully worked allusions and with subtle nuances that toy with the reader’s imagination, warn of dangers seen and unseen and that add luster to his story. It’s no surprise then that the novel really doesn’t end but, instead, leaves off where it began, by recounting a story known but not all told. The reader is not left hanging here but, rather, comes to the end knowing well that there is more to come."
Dr. Ralph L. DeFalco III Senior Strategist, Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Captain, USN(R) 711
The review below speaks volumes for this book, a reality-based war on terror novel.
"A novel in the best tradition of the works of Frederick Forsyth and Dan Brown, Killing Sharks: De Profundis, by Eric Wentz, is a thriller that takes the reader from the desolate mountains of the FATA on the Afghan-Pakistani border to the warm waters of the Caribbean and the base prison at Guantanamo, Cuba. Navy SEAL, Lieutenant Commander Grant Chisolm, races against the timing of suicide bombers and through the murky world of the modern war on terrorism and the backwaters of the Cold War. As the terror plot unfolds, Chisolm and his unlikely Cuban allies combine forces to thwart an audacious Al-Qaeda plan to attack the American base from the sea, under the sea, in the air and on land.
The reader of Killing Sharks is in the good hands of a capable and knowledgeable author and a talented writer. Wentz’s work is authentic. It’s the product of Navy Officer who has seen Guantanamo and the world-wide war on terror at first hand. Wentz also has a solid grasp of history and of world cultures that resonates in this novel to add both depth and nuance to this adventure. Wentz has a gift for writing vividly and descriptively and his narrative captures both beauty and the grimness of barbarous attacks, torture and sudden death.
On one level Killing Sharks is a well-paced and satisfying adventure and thriller. Part detective story, part mystery novel, part history, the novel is a deft combination of genres laced tightly into a remarkable yet credible story line. Wentz has also layered this novel with carefully worked allusions and with subtle nuances that toy with the reader’s imagination, warn of dangers seen and unseen and that add luster to his story. It’s no surprise then that the novel really doesn’t end but, instead, leaves off where it began, by recounting a story known but not all told. The reader is not left hanging here but, rather, comes to the end knowing well that there is more to come."
Dr. Ralph L. DeFalco III
Senior Strategist, Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support,
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Captain, USN(R)
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