Dead Air

By Charles Jaco

Book Overview

Veteran TV correspondent Peter Dees--hard-living, wisecracking, hungry for a scoop--seizes upon a story that could rock the world. Deep behind volatile Middle Eastern borders, a madman is stockpiling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345421280
• ISBN13: 9780345421289
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Thought-provoking & believeable

This was an engrossing book. Most of the time I was reading it I was wondering just how much of this "fiction" was actually true--Jaco makes it all so believeble. I'm sure his own experience reporting the Gulf War is to thank for that. Even though I selected and read the book for entertainment, I found it to be more than that. I found myself wondering if this was a real, true story disguised as fiction. I can't wait to read the sequel.

Superb - authentic - I read all night!

From its opening scenes in Haiti to the very last word in Washington DC, Dead Air, captured my imagination. Jaco relays information in the same concise, accurate manner he covered the Gulf War for CNN and the many assignments he undertook for NBC and others. The story is well crafted, there's no long hiatus here between clues and denoument. Instead, you're carried swiftly along from the steamy sidewalks of Port-Au-Prince to the insufferable heat and dirt of the Kuwaiti-Iraq border. Authenticity pervades the book like desert dust and even more impressive is that the colloquial slang in Arabic is accurate!!It's been a long time since I could honestly say I read all night and was genuinely sad the story was over - I can't wait for the next book!

Excellent! Couldn't put it down.

An outstanding first book. The years spent covering the gulf war and other foreign affairs have provided Jaco with a unique feel for the regions of the world in which Peter Dees operates.

Hot hot hot....

Charles Jaco's searing tale of Desert Storm is very fast paced and topical. Once you start reading you can't stop. I liked him on NBC and CNN but as a new novelist he's even better. Read this book now. You'll find it quite thought provoking and a bit unsettling. It's hot hot HOT !!!

You can see the action unfold before your eyes.

I don't get to read novels very much, but I like the author so I thought I would read a couple of chapters. Once I picked it up to read I could not put it down. You can actually see people getting shot in their left eye, feel the heat of Haiti, as well as Cairo, and the Middle East. Your memory jumps to when Charles Jaco was there and all the pictures come back to life, it's like it could be happening all over again. You see the fires in the desert as well as all the "dead" vehicles on that main highway. It was exciting, just like hearing a war report on the raido or tv. You will not be able to put it down!!!!