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Exit Plan (2012)

by Larry Bond(Favorite Author)

3.9 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0765331462 (ISBN13: 9780765331465)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Forge Books

series

Jerry Mitchell

review 1: A stellar example of the genre. I liked this book but it didn't really shine until the last 100 pages. I spent the first 2/3 of the book amused, entertained but annoyed by the politicians and military brass who seem more interested in not upsetting our enemies than completing this globally significant mission and protecting our folks on the ground. Without revealing too much ... There is a SEAL team stuck in coastal Iran with critically important intelligence. There is a lot of maneuvering to position the SEAL party so they can escape on their own by stealing a boat or plane, when it would seem obvious to just send in a stealth helo to extract them. Maybe I'm missing something, but a lot of this tramping about and hiding from the Basij and Pasdaran seemed so unnecessary ... morealbeit fun to read about. So I ended up enjoying the story but annoyed with the ineptitude of the politicians and military brass for missing such an obvious solution. And maybe a little annoyed with the author as well for not coming up with a premise to support the fun but implausible plot he ended up choosing.
review 2: I borrowed this for my 15 year old son who loves it and has re-read it several times. To stay hep with the young generation I read it too. It's a cartoon like thriller about SEAL special operations forces and an Iranian nuclear bomb and the exfiltration of an Iranian spy to a US submarine lurking in the Persian gulf. So long as the story sticks to the action on the ground with the commandos it's an engaging adventure story, with plausible action scenes and careful descriptions of different kinds of weapons and tactics. And when I say plausible, I don't mean to suggest that 5 SEAL commandos would likely be able to kill 35 Iranians in a 3 day rampage through the backroads of the Iranian coast, but rather that the descriptions feel like fighting and are possible to imagine. The plausibility is of a movie sort and I was willing to surrender to the artist's vision. In contrast, the dialogue and plausibility of the Presidential level and diplomatic discussions is much lower - laughable really. The whole thing is an awkward mess, but perfectly acceptable as a diverting adventure and a way to bond with your teenager. less

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