Silent Option

By Larry Simmmons and Larry Simmons

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671552813
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Pocket
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 4.2" x 1.0" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Great book but...

I will make this short and sweet...If you want to know what seals go though with training, and carry out missions its a great book...it just can get a little confusing with all the abreviations.

Silent Option is a fabulous and entertaining read!

This is a fabulous and entertaining read! I found myself enthralled with the characters, the plot, and the action! So often, books in the action-adventure genre are very predictable. Few are believable and fewer still offer any real insights into the way the world operates. Reading Silent Option, I had a sense that everything occurring could possibly be true. Larry's grasp of international affairs, coupled with his fundamental understanding of human nature, really brought this book to life for me. I found myself really caring about the lead character, Derek Evans, and his personal struggle to stay true to his principles. I definitely recommend this book, and I truly hope we hear more from Larry Simmons. He is a major talent.

A vivid representation of Special Ops Combat by the SEALs

I am average person and am put off by overly descriptive novels and books were so many adverbs and adjectives are thrown at the reader that one looses track of the story line. These are the books we are forced to read in High school and college. A book that requires the instructor of the class to paraphrase and reiterate the main idea of the book just so that everyone can follow along. That's were this book doesn't go. It has a brilliant yet pure linguistic style, written to taste touch and fell the story not to impress some arrogant professors at Harvard. You fell the brutality of war, the decisiveness of the heroes, and the coldness of the villains. Best of all is the sensation of victory and belief that courage, honor, valor and the destruction of all obstacles make life worth living. Perhaps if this book was required reading in our nation's schools and universities, are young could learn about values, morality and why we as a nation must stand against all oppressors domestic and foreign no matter what the odds, simply because it is right. All hail Larry Simmons, hero and master of words and actions. This man has more honor in his toe then Bill Clinton's entire family has in their bodies. I thank you all for valuing my review and wish you well.

"Silent Option" motto of my Team TWO. It is not all fiction

"I recently read Silent Option, and out of curiosity , I also read the book "SPETSNAZ" to compare and contrast the comments of that critic from Ft. Collins, CO. While one of the scenes in Commander Simmons's fictional account of SPETSNAZ training resemble Suvorov's (?)non-fictional(?)description of Russian training, I wasn't surprised by the one scene similarity which in my opinion is perhaps the description given to Capt. Simmons by some of the Russions that trained with us. His vivid descriptions of SEAL training were dead on target. I loved the Russian female commandoe, and wonder it that is fiction. He took me on a very vivid memory of UDT Hell Week. I know the evolutions from personal experience and many haven't changed since the 1950's. This book could easily be non-fictional and contains true events in the lives of US Navy SEALs. Hoo Yah for log PT!" Erasmo Riojas MD, Retired Navy SEAL, and Teamate of Capt. Simmons

enjoyed greatly and a very real scenario possibility

i enjoyed this book and the way it was presented, it was an interesting and very possible scenario, but of course i am a little prejudiced, as commander simmons was my exective officer when i retired in 1987.