Scorpion Strike

By John J. Nance

Book Overview

"Exciting." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL In the wake of Desert Storm, a defecting Iraqi scientist has revealed Saddam Hussein's horrifying plans for a devastating counterstrike against his enemies...and the world. With no time to spare, American forces must remobilize to locate and neutralize the underground laboratory where a lethal super-virus is ready to be unleashed. But an eleventh-hour disaster thrusts the entire mission into the hands of Air Force comrades-in-arms Colonel Will Westerman and Reserve Colonel-turned-commercial pilot Doug Harris. Flying into the heart of Iraqi power, they must depend on their skills--and each other--as never before, to complete a mission that looks more and more like a suicide run... From the Paperback edition.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517585650
• ISBN13: 9780517585658
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Scorpion Strike paperback

Excellent thriller by Nance. Written about a subject he knows a great deal about from personal experience. Recommended for fans of military action adventures with good character development.

Plenty of action to go around

This was a good book. A little predictable and corny at times, but the overall plot was a good one. There were several small stories all happening at the same time. Nance kept you hopping from one group of characters to the next.

Scorpion Strike- by John J. Nance

Scorpion Strike may start off a little slow, but a few chapters in, the action picks up its pace to the point where you cannot put it down. I turned the pages of this book very quickly, wanting to see what the next event would be. The flight scenes are very realistic and full of technical details that a reader educated in aviation would enjoy, but still understandable for readers that don't know aviation jargon. I recommend this book to anybody.

Scorpion Strike

Scorpion Strike is the first book I have read by John Nance, but it will certainly not be the last. As one of the foremost experts on avaition safety in the world (you always see him interviewed on Seattle TV after a major airline accident) Mr. Nance does a brilliant job of detailing all aspects of aviation. Not being an airplane enthusiast like the author , I did get a little lost with some of the terminology. But even then I never lost the sense of suspence and desperation the characters felt as they carry out there mission. Though probably a little too technical for the casual reader, this book has all the makings of a NY Times bestseller.