In Honor Bound

by Gerald Seymour

Book Overview

Barney Crispin, SAS Captain, is sent urgently to the Afghanistan border on the direct order of the Foreign Secretary. His mission is to organize the destruction of one of the new Soviet helicopters... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393018598
• ISBN13: 9780393018592
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Cover Looks Like a Scene From Iraq Today-Timely & Exciting!

It began with a bungled mission. Fourteen mujahidin had been trained by the British, given a ground-to-air missile launcher, and sent into Afghanistan to shoot down a Russion helicopter. Throughout history, the fierce Afghan tribesmen had repelled all invaders, but when the Russians entered Afghanistan in 1979, they brought along helicopters; helicopters that terrorized the mujahidin Resistance, destroyed their villages and young men...helicopters about which Western intelligence services wanted to know a great deal more. Barney Crispin of the British SAS knew his men were not ready, and now he undertakes his own personal war against Majoy Pyotr Medev's crack squadron of eight Mi-24 gunships in the bleak mountains and rocky valleys of the Hindu Kush, partly out of revenge, partly to bring back the electronic system of an Mi-24 helicopter, but primarily because he has been taught that an assignment is always successfully carried out.

One of Seymour's Best

A thoroughly enjoyable and intriguing read. With the current situation in Afghanistan, it also provides helpful insights regarding that country. Clearly one of Seymour's best books, and I have enjoyed all nine or ten of his books that I have read. I intend to finish the list, and I hope he keeps on writing.

classic seymour

seymours distinct style comes to a head in this believable adventure in Afganistan,riveting!!!.