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Line Of Control: A Thriller On The Coming War In Asia (2011)

by Mainak Dhar(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1463760787 (ISBN13: 9781463760786)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Createspace

review 1: I have always been a lover of this Genre "WAR". Be it the movies like Saving Private Ryan or the series like Band of Brothers. This book is no different. The start of the book with too many characters being introduced to you in a couple of chapters, but once you are accustomed with the characters, it becomes a page turner. It has suspense and you would want to continue reading. The story in interesting and what is appreciable is the amount of research which the author has done on Indian Army. Everything is detailed and infact you come to know a lot about the Indian Army through this. The end is something which dissapointed me a bit, but just a bit. After reading three fourth of the book, it will actually seem to be a true story, but as it aproaches the end, you will be sur... moree that its a fiction. The end is too dramatic and would have looked good if it complemented with the initial part of the book. But irrespective of this, the book is interesting and a must read.
review 2: All in all, this was a solid story. Dhar deviates from convention at times, switching between different characters' POVs in the same scene, telling instead of showing, etc. I touched upon some of the other shortcomings in my "mid-read" commentary. However, his underlying premise regarding what sparks the armed conflict between India and Pakistan seemed pretty realistic to me, and he obviously did quite a bit of research regarding the weapons systems used by both sides as well as the two countries' respective war strategies. The story flowed nicely once I got into it, and the romance that develops between two of the characters adds an interesting dimension to the story.If you'd like to explore a political/military thriller involving a different conflict from those which are typically featured in the genre today (e.g. America vs. Islamic terrorists, America vs. China, America vs. a resurgent, crypto-communist Russia, etc.) - and if you're more interested in military action than grammatical niceties and standard literary conventions - you might be pleasantly surprised by Line of Control. less

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