Kilo Option

by Sean Flannery

Book Overview

Military intelligence analyst Bill Lane, the dauntless hero of Winner Take All , is about to find out. When the national Security Agency assigns him to investigate a mysterious commando raid on Iran's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812550633
• ISBN13: 9780812550634
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Kilo Option was a kiloton of fun to read!

Kilo Option has more action on one page, than does Hunt for Red October in the entire book! Should appeal to the techno-thriller fan. One of his best books. Read also "By Dawn's Early Light(written by him under the name of David Hagberg)

Kilo Option was a Kilo-ton of fun to read

Lots of action and intrigue. I had a lot of fun reading this book, and believe that you will, too. Definitely one of his better, if not, best books to date. Far better than Tom Clancy, if you want a book that moves along, he takes the appropriate amount of pages to tell a story, unlike Clancy who takes a thousand pages, to write a three hundred page story. Unfortunately he no longer writes under this name, but now writes strictly under the name of David Hagberg, rehashing the same 'Formulaic' story over, and over again, with his semi-retired spy/assassin Kirk McGarvey as his main protagonist.

Something to think about

Given what we are now living through with the threat that terrorists could acquire advanced weapons of mass destruction, this novel strikes a chord of reality and is worth reading as an intellectual exercise. All those who said we could never have imagined commercial airliners hitting large buildings had simply not been reading enough adventure fiction. Tom Clancy had a Boeing 747 hit the Capitol in one of his novels. Similarly, if at some future time we discover that someone really vicious has acquired a very advanced weapon system by bribing a disgruntled military member of a decaying system, we should not be surprised if we read Kilo Option. Flannery assumes that a group has bribed a small crew who were supposed to scuttle a Russian submarine to fake the scuttling and instead sail the submarine to a rendezvous and sell it to some people with really dreadful ideas about how to use it.Considering the number of countries in which salaries are low and often months or even years behind in payment. Imagine the people who watch corrupt regimes and lose any faith in their leaders standing for anything. Imagine the steady proliferation of advanced systems across the planet. Then remember that the very sophisticated very expensive submarine monitoring system we built to track Soviet submarines during the cold war is now gradually disappearing as we focus on more immediate problems. The result could easily be an intelligence gap into which some really unthinkable things could happen.Kilo Option outlines one plausible scenario and how it is ultimately stopped by a very narrow margin. It is worth reading and pondering.

A Good Action Book!

This book had nonstop action from the start to the finish.Youhave Bill Lane as the hero of this book. The very evil villain in this book is Ukranian agent Valeri Yernin. Frances Shipley rounds out the cast of characters in this book. You are on the vege of war with Iraq being aided by the Ukrain. Because of evel deeds by the Ukrain nation Saudi Arabia and Iran are about to go to war. Bill Lane is in a nonstop shooting war with Valeri Yerninon all corners of the world. Saddam Hussein even has a role in this story. Add all of these characters together together andyou have an exciting story. After reading this book I have already purchased Achilles Heel. Buy and read this book. It is good.

An excellent, convoluted, military thriller.

Bill Lane, an analyst for the NSA, returns to defuse impending disaster in the Middle East. He's matched against an equally interesting, well-developed villain. True to the genre, Flannery blends just the right mix of intrigue, mystery, treachery, action, and technical detail. Frances Shipley, Lane's winsome counterpart in the British SIS, reveals the softer, kinder, gentler side of our hero between explosions. One quickly discovers, however, that there are very few things Lane can trust beyond his Beretta automatic pistol. If anything requires willing suspension of disbelief, it's Lane's near-clairvoyance. Yes, he's supposed to be a brilliant analyst, but he always seems to interpret the available evidence precisely the way Flannery intends. Otherwise, it's a well-constructed, believable scenario - the pages pass very quickly. Fans of Tom Clancy and Larry Bond will certainly enjoy this title.