Honor Bound

By John Ratti

Honor Bound is a provocative novel that sweeps across the landscapes of contemporary mainstream, military and political thriller fiction. Ultimately an inquiry into a price paid for the undiscovered... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931391351
• ISBN13: 9781931391351
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Booklocker.com
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Bold, Gutsy, and Well Done

I admire this book and liked it much more than I thought I would. Everyone who is interested in important world events really needs to read it. There's a take on international politics in this novel I haven't seen from any other American writer. The charcters are very well-drawn. By the end of the first chapter, I instinctively knew the story's heroine. I'm loathe to describe this tale as heartbreaking, but I know no other way to describe it - unless the author gives us more clue about the ending. You'll keep thinking about it, even if you don't want to.

A Bullet Of A Book

This novel constantly surprised me. It took me places I never expected it to go and its ending is one I will never forget. The way the author mixes real world people and events with fiction made me more than once stop and ask if it all really happened. The story's heroine, U. S. Army Captain Kasey Lawrence is so vividly drawn I felt the emotions she experienced on her journey in the pit of my stomach. I leaned so much from this book about the history and culture of the Mideast and America's current relationship to what is going on there. The author makes predictions I hope don't come true, but I hope even more we don't ignore. Honor Bound is a very good book.

Could not put it down!

I was looking for a military/political novel set in the Middle East, for a spare time reading. What I got, in Honor Bound, was an exciting, intriguing, fast paced book that stole my entire weekend. I could not put it down.I particularly liked the suspense filled sub-plots, the absence of "super-heros" and the attention to detail provided by the author.Mr. Ratti seamlessly mixes historical acts and figures with fictional events and characters. It all blends together so cleverly that while reading - it is all too real.I actually felt empty when I finished the book because I so enjoyed being involved in this complex, murky and unconventional world.MEMO TO THE AUTHOR: Put me down for a ticket on your next adventure!

I'm Blown Away!

I read this book in early October 2001 and was astonished how current the story is. John Ratti begins his novel with the words. "One day, some of this fiction will be fact." I don't see how he could have had any idea how right he would be. Mixing fact with fiction to the degree that I couldn't tell which was which, Honor Bound is the story of American as apple pie heroine Captain Kasey Lawrence, an American icon if there ever was one, right down to the words, "America, One Nation, One Destiny" stitched into the lining of her coat (the same words stitched inside Lincoln's on the day of his assassination). With unfettered precision, he details her journey through the paradoxical conundrums of the Mideast, taking us out of that tunnel into an abyss of personal turmoil in Kasey's sad heart. This book reminded me, is lateral manner, of everything from the Gulf War, the Lebanon hostage crisis, Iran-Contra, even the Lewinsky affair, not to metion the events of September 11, 2001. And when he reveals the big secret driving the story, it left me chilled -- because one day, it will be fact. A very, very good book.

A penetrating novel with unsettling insights

Once you have met US Army Captain Kasey Lawrence, the heroine of John Ratti's novel, Honor Bound, you will not forget her. She is not a superwoman. She is a tough-as-nails career officer who is the last in a military family line. When her chain of command yanks her into the chaos of the Middle East and then leaves her dangling there in the shifting political winds, she remains the soldier. Although victimized in terrible ways, she never cries "victim", not even when her community turns against her and her family collapses beneath the pressures of a hostile administration's lies. John Ratti leads us into the seething cauldron that is the Middle East with such insightful facility that it becomes a frighteningly familiar ground. Neither does his own government escape his insight, up to and including the President. By the time the controversial ending arrives, we each know Kasey well enough to take an unshakable stand. This book is relevant to these times and very disturbing.