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Major Bob Yardley is selected to steal an American national treasure, sealed in an Iranian palace, so the U.S. might swap it for hostages
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From Publishers Weekly
Expertise fills--and sometimes clogs--every page of this adventure by counter-terrorist expert Rivers ( The Killing House ). Pulled from his leadership position as a Special Forces officer, Major Bob Yardley is virtually kidnapped by the U.S. government and given the task of masterminding an audacious jailbreak. In England, he assembles a team of covert-operations agents to spring a British prisoner who may have obtained classified American documents on the Soviet government. Rivers's step-by-step account of the plan's execution is a skillful anatomy of a caper, although whole passages are stuffed with needless tech-talk; a flight to Marseilles, for example, becomes an excuse for a ground-to-cockpit transcript. About halfway through the novel, Yardley discovers that he's been a pawn in a much larger game--an attempt to steal Iran's Peacock Throne. Despite the relentlessly gung-ho dialogue and some structural problems, including a hero who disappears for much of the narrative, the novel offers the undemanding entertainment value of a B-movie double bill.
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From Library Journal
Major Bob Yardley, U.S. Special Forces, is approached to break a safecracker out of a maximum security prison in London and then to use this man's expertise to steal the 2500-year-old Peacock Throne from hostile Iran. His team meets up with the usual variety of technical failures, suspicious rivals and enemies, and violence. Rivers possesses a first-hand knowledge of counterterrorism (he works for the United States as a counterterrorist) that is both a strength and a failing. Less attention to the minutiae of covert operations and more to plotting would have been preferred. "They knew the rules. We played them better and they lost," says one of Yardley's lieutenants. Unfortunately the book does not live up to the toughness of mind that this statement promises. Not recommended.
- David Keymer, SUNY Inst. of Technology, Utica
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