Acts of Vengeance

by Robert Gandt

Book Overview

When a motor launch carrying the USS Ronald Reagan's top brass is attacked, the U.S. vows a swift reprisal. Enter skipper Brick Maxwell and his Roadrunners-the jocks who fly the F/A-18 Super Hornets.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451207181
• ISBN13: 9780451207180
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.1" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Gutsy, Riveting Thriller

Robert Gandt has found another niche he can claim as his own: writing military thrillers. He has used what he knows with what he imagines in a superb combination of reality and art. Without burdening his text with technical descriptions, he carries his readers into the world of the military as naturally as if they were an invisible fly on his collar button. And in the air battle scenes, he succeeds in making readers feel they are experiencing virtual reality. You forget you're the reader and become the pilot. You feel the G forces, the rushing ground, the hair-raising near misses...you hear the mighty jet engines swooping and swooning...you see the target in your cross hairs and smell death. You feel your heart beating, your hands sweating inside your gloves, and you feel steely cool focused only on your target. Aside from his amazing ability to put you inside the story is the story itself--a story that may be closer to the truth than we care to imagine in the days of war coming to Iraq. He portrays a cunning and skillful enemy you can understand and have to respect. Treachery, no matter who suffers as a result of it, is cause for vengeance, right or wrong, and we see forces equally motivated to devine that justice, which makes the outcome even more dramatic in its deliverance. What's even more admirable is his portrayal of women challenging a man's world: a war correspondent and a F-18 pilot. They do their jobs becuse they love doing them, not because they want to be distinct from the pack. And both women can't have their man. Even this rivalry is worked out the way real women would resolve it.Bob Gandt soars to the top of my favorite military novelists, and I hope to see Brick Maxwell and his Roadrunners along with broadcaster Claire Phillips on the USS Ronald Reagon in a TV series soon.

Acts of Vengeance

Great story..I read his first fiction with Hostile Intent and it was good..now having read acts of vengeance I am looking forward to the nextepisode..this was very well written and a good lookinto the workings of the politics of war fighting..thanksagain..

Acts of Vengence

This is the second in what I hope will be an ongoing series of naval aviation adventure stories. Acts of Vengeance has it all--gutsy flying scenes, romance, a submarine attack on a super carrier, Marines in ground combat with terrorists, a charismatic terrorist leader who is very nearly the match of the hero, Brick Maxwell. Throw in a you-are-there feel of life aboard the USS Ronald Reagan. Gandt cranks up the suspense and doesn't turn loose. Can't wait for the next one.

ACTS OF VENGEANCE

Having thoroughly enjoyed the exciting drama of Gandt's first novel, With Hostile Intent, I eagerly anticipated this action-packed sequel to Commander Brick Maxwell's daring exploits over the No-Fly Zone of Iraq.In Acts of Vengeance, Gandt takes the reader into the god-forsaken Gulf of Aden where evil terrorist forces conspire to commit widespread death and destruction within the venerable U.S.S. Ronald Reagan Battle Group. When Colonel Jamal Al-Fasr reappears to wreak mayhem upon the unsuspecting peace-keeping naval forces, Maxwell and his band of F/A Super Hornets vow to engage and destroy the enemy deep within the bowels of Yemen.Once again, Gandt has woven an explosive tale that is sure to stir the very heart of every American who continues to seethe with fresh remembrance of the unspeakable horrors of the recent attack by Mid-Eastern terrorists upon our beloved homeland. With a lifetime of love for adventure and all things aviation, the writer has skillfully crafted a most engaging novel which I enjoyed immensely.

Better than the first

ACTS OF VENGEANCE is the second in the high-voltage military adventure series from ex-Navy fighter pilot Robert Gandt. His scenes of action aboard the warship, USS Ronald Reagan, take you right onto the flight deck and into the cockpit of the new F/A-18 Super Hornet. Without giving the surprise ending away, let it be said that the intricately woven plot and superb charaterization of this story will hook the reader and keep him hooked until the nerve-shattering end. Be sure to read the prequel, WITH HOSTILE INTENT, to get the full story on how ex-asronaut and now squadron skipper Brick Maxwell fought his way to the best job in naval aviation.