SOAR: A Black Ops Mission - Softcover

Weisman, John

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9780060524104: SOAR: A Black Ops Mission

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060524103 ISBN 13: 9780060524104

Publisher: Avon, 2004

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Just prior to a precedent–shattering U.S.–Chinese weapons treaty signing at a Beijing summit, a covert CIA operation to place sensors that record low–level underground nuclear tests near the PRC's secret site at Lopnur in Western China goes awry.

The CIA team is captured by Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) guerillas. With the clock ticking and the summit approaching, the President mobilizes a top–secret unit–Task Force 160 of the Army's Special Operations Air Regiment栮d orders a team of Spec Warriors to rescue the American intel squirrels before the Chinese find out what has happened, cancel the summit, and embarrass the U.S. Then, satellite intelligence reveals that not only have renegade Uzbeks captured the Americans, they have also seized a thirty–year–old, capacitor–fused nuclear device from the Chinese military.

Within hours, an ultra–sensitive National Reconnaissance Office FORTAE (Fast Onboard Recognition of Transient Atomic Experiments) Ⲯiffer⟳atellite indicates the IMU has somehow armed the devise. National Reconnaissance Office photos show the nuke and the hostages heading for the Pamirs and Afghanistan, where remnants of the IMU␳ al Qaeda allies still hold out. That is followed by a National Security Agency communications intercept: the Chinese president has secretly dispatched a Zhongdui (Special Forces) unit from the Jin Jiancha Zhu (Tactical Reconnaissance Office) of the People's Liberation Army to hunt down the terrorists and retrieve the nuke.

The only good news is that Beijing doesn't know the IMU is holding six American hostages渥t. Now, the U.S. team must not only beat the Zhongdui to the IMU guerrillas so it can extract the CIA team covertly, the rescuers must also take a Department of Energy expert to defuse the unstake nuke without leaving any American fingerprints.

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About the Author:

Seven-time New York Times bestselling author John Weisman is one of a select company of authors to have their books on both the Times nonfiction and fiction bestseller lists. He pioneered coverage of Naval Special Warfare when he co-authored the number one New York Times bestseller Rogue Warrior, the story of Richard Marcinko and the creation of SEAL Team 6, and then conceived, created, developed, and wrote eight bestselling Rogue fictional sequels. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Seymour Hersh praised his 2004 novel Jack in the Box as "the insider's insider spy novel." Weisman's CIA short stories were chosen for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories in 1997 and 2003. His most recent CIA short fiction appears in Agents of Treachery. He reviews books on intelligence and military affairs for the Washington Times, and his analysis has appeared in AFIO's periodical Intelligencer. John Weisman lives sin the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Review:

“JTerrific...John Weisman’s vigorous book makes a Tom Clancy novel read like something that wouldn’t make it through basic training.” (Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered (NPR))

“John Weisman takes the reader into the very heart of CIA and special operations...A must read.” (Robert Baer, veteran CIA case officer and author of the New York Times bestseller See No Evil)

“Nobody writes better about the dark, dirty, and dangerous world of the CIA and Black Ops....The pace never slows.” (Joseph Wambaugh, author of the Edgar Award-winning Fire Lover)

“Readable as Clancy at his best...Weisman is...wired more tightly into the...special opeations community than any other writer.” (Washington Times)

“Better than Clancy at his best...[Soar] shows how the face of war is changing.” (Lt. Gen. Sam Wilson, USA (Ret.), former head of DIA and one of the godfathers of Delta Force)

“Soar reads like a heat-seeking missile....If this isn’t the real thing, I don’t know what is!” (Patrick Robinson, bestselling author of U.S.S. Seawolf)

“Weisman redefines high impact, action/adventure suspense novels for this decade.” (James Grady, author of Six Days of the Condor and River of Darkness)

“Soar is a great page-turner by a pro who knows his stuff.” (Oliver North, author of the New York Times bestseller Mission Compromised)

“Weisman...imbues every stage of the operation with appropriate complexity and suspense....Riveting for both fans and newcomers.” (Publishers Weekly)

“Good guys, stirring esprit de corps, and spectacular explosions make for a suspenseful war fantasy.” (Kirkus Reviews)

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