Combat - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075284718X ISBN 13: 9780752847184

Publisher: Orion Books/Hachette, 2001

Synopsis

As the world moves into the next millennium, the United States finds itself at the forefront of a new age, policing not only its own shores, but the rest of the world as well. Spearheading this are the men and women of America's armed forces, the "troops on the wall" who will go anywhere, anytime, and do whatever it takes to protect our nation and the rest of the free world. Combat brings the best authors in military fiction together to reveal how war will be fought in the 21st century, from the down-and-dirty "groundpounders" of the U.S. Cavalry to the new frontiers of warfare--outer space and the internet. Ten authors whose novels define the military fiction genre have written all new short novels about the men and women willing to put their lives on the line for freedom:
Contents:
Introduction (Combat) essay by Stephen Coonts
al-Jihad / novella by Stephen Coonts: ...the unlikely partnership between an ex-Marine sniper and a female pilot who team up to kill the terrorists who murdered their parents.
Leadership Material / novella by Dale Brown: ...into the seldom-seen world of the military review board, and shows how the future career of an EB-52 Megafortress pilot can depend on a man he's never met.
Lash-Up / novella by Larry Bond: ...explores the wild frontier of space warfare, where American forces fight a tenacious enemy that threatens every free nation on Earth.
CaV / novella by James Cobb: ...pits a lone US Armored Cavalry unit against an aggressive Algerian recon division in an attempt to protect a defenseless African nation.
Cyberknights / novella by Harold Coyle: ...reports from the front lines of the information war, where cyberpunks are recruited to combat the growing swarm of hackers who orchestrate online terrorism around the world.
Flight of Endeavour / novella by R. J. Pineiro: ...goes to the far reaches of space where a terrorist holds the world captive from a nuclear equipped space platform.To stop him, a pilot agrees to fly her space shuttle on a deadly mission from which she may never return.
Breaking Point / novella by David Hagberg: ...a riveting Kirk McGarvey adventure, in which rising tensions between China and Taiwan threaten to bring the US and the world to the brink of war.
Inside Job [Harve Rackham] / novella by Dean Ing: ...unites a private investigator, a bounty hunter, and an FBI agent who together uncover a shadow of terrorism that looms over America and threatens thousands of lives.
Skyhawks Forever / novella by Barrett Tillman: ...a group of retired fighter jocks go in for one last mission, battling enemy jets over the skies of California.
There Is No War in Melnica / novella by Ralph Peters: ...in the Balkan States, where a US observer is captured by the very people he is there to help, and learns how far people will go for their idea of freedom.

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Review

Will the next war be fought in cyberspace? Stephen Coonts, author of the watershed military novel, Flight of the Intruder, offers this collection of 11 21st-century novellas for fans of contemporary and near-future military fiction. Technology is the binding element of Combat, and fans of Tom Clancy's high-tech military espionage thrillers will find much to love, from ultra-smart weapons to the technical infrastructure of the armed forces of the future. Don't expect hard core science fiction; the villains are of the more realistic variety: terrorists, rogue governments, and outlaw technology. Some of these stories are encumbered with a level of detail only the serious enthusiast will enjoy. (Dale Brown's "Leadership Material" has whole passages describing regs and paperwork that will bore all but the most ardent fans of the genre.) Highlights include Harold W. Coyle's fast-paced "Cyberknights," the most likely candidate from this collection to become a big-budget feature film. --Brendan LaSalle

About the Author

Stephen Coonts is the author of seven New York Times bestselling novels, the first of which was the classic flying tale, Flight of the Intruder, which spent more than six months at the top of The New York Times bestseller list. His novels have been published around the world and translated into more than a dozen languages. He was honored by the U.S. Naval Institute with its Author of the Year Award in 1986. His latest novel is America. He is also the editor of two anthologies, War in the Air and The New York Times bestselling Combat. He resides with his wife, Deborah, in Nevada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion Books/Hachette
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075284718X
• ISBN 13: 9780752847184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 768
• Editor: Stephen Coonts