Cut Out: A Dave Riley Novel - Hardcover

Mayer, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891415084 ISBN 13: 9780891415084

Publisher: Presidio Press, 1995

Synopsis

Green Beret Dave Riley returns in this taut thriller set in the shadowy world of the federal witness protection program. Riley and his friend, police detective Donna Giannini, are asked to protect a friend whose life is in danger, and find themselves ensnared in the same web: Professional hit-men are stalking them, and the killers seem to know their every move. Bodies disappear; phones are tapped; computer programs are compromised. Who is behind it? Whom can they trust? And how can they escape when they don't know who the enemy is?
Trapped, Riley has to turn the tables on his foes, using all of his special operations expertise and the resources he can marshal at the JFK Center for Special Warfare at Fort Bragg. But in this high-tech game of cat-and-mouse, Riley learns that nothing is as it seems to be, and the hard-bought answers are revealed only in the hair-raising conclusion.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Mayer serves in the Army Reserve as an instructor at the Special Forces Qualification Course at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg.

Reviews

Mayer's Green Beret hero, Chief Warrant Officer Dave Riley (SYNBAT), returns to take on the mob and corrupt government officials in a well-paced but didactic tale about the compromising of the Federal Witness Protection Program. When Philip Cobb, former mob money launderer and current government informer, is murdered just as he is about the enter the Program, his wife, after calling an emergency Program number only to be nearly gunned down herself, turns for help to her brother, who contacts his old girlfriend, Donna Giannini, now a Chicago cop. Giannini (who appeared in SYNBAT) in turn asks her old pal Riley to keep Lisa alive while she finds out what went wrong. The rest of the narrative pits the warrior skills and state-of-the-art special-ops technology of Riley and his men against two groups of professional killers and the heinous federal officials behind one of them. While Riley's high-tech gadgets are interesting, neither he, the rest of the characters nor the story line rises much above pulp level. Moreover, too often Mayer uses his characters to voice political opinions (of Vietnam, one says, "I spent three years fighting a war that no one even talks about anymore. A war that some assholes in Washington started and then pissed away.") Still, with its maximum quotient of action and violence, this entry should appeal to fans of the series.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Presidio Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0891415084
• ISBN 13: 9780891415084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256