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Years after hijackers killed his father, an ordinary college student gets a chance to fight terrorists who have hatched a plan to destroy the United States
A ringing phone awakes Dan Lennigin, college student, in the middle of the night, and the caller baffles him with a stream of panicked gibberish. It is a code, meant for someone else's ears, and it draws Dan inexorably into a tangled international conspiracy. Minutes after the call, an operative for antiterrorist agency Lucifer is killed, and his superiors come for Dan. He is the only one who heard the warning, and now that he knows what is happening, he can't say no.
Ever since his vacationing father was murdered by hijackers, Dan has dreamed about taking revenge on the world's terrorists. But this threat is no fantasy. It has already claimed the lives of several professional terrorist hunters, and Dan is no professional.
This description may be from another edition of this product.If you like adventure with plenty of twists, I would recomend this book.
This was an excellent action book which I think should be made into a movie. I don't usually like books this much but this is one book that I actually enjoyed. Jon Land, the author of the book, has a very exciting way of writing. He gives an exciting way to end a chapter or a very interesting way. His ideas are superbly chosen. He makes you want to read on. I'd like to read another one of his novels. Here is a sample quote from Chapter 3 as he finishes off the chapter : 1. " `Keep your gold pen handy' `Why?' ` You've written this boy's death certificate. You might as well sign it' " The way that Jon Land writes his discussions is very boring. He makes the president and his associates talk too much. Most of their discussions are about the story but they carry on with the same subject forever. Almost all the conversations should've been about two to three pages long but they were actually ten to twelve Ibid: 1. The Lucifer Directive, Jon Land, Bantam Books, 1984, Page # 33 pages long. I would think that is a little too much. Sometimes they start talking about something that isn't even part of the main story. Something like this little piece I'm about to give to you. This quote is about Lucifer and how it got it got messed up when Sparrow left. I don't think that has anything to do with the story at all: 1. " I won't bother listening to you deny that you've tried to kill me four times in the past two weeks. I haven't got the spare minutes. When I left Lucifer in the hands of people like you, I always feared it would come to this sooner or later. Too much power for any small group of men devoid of politics and prejudices and ambitions at the helm. You are a man obsessed with all three, Admiral, even more than the men who preceded you in this job after I was forced to step down. But if Isosceles was ever to become active again, I should have known it would have been by your lead." Ibid 1. The Lucifer Directive, Jon Land, Bantam Books, 1984, Page # 367 I have another peeve that I'd like to share with you. I think that they curse a lot in this book. I don't think these was any need to include this much cursing in a book. It's not like I haven't heard them before but I don't think he should use them so quite frequently. Here's a sample from Chapter 16 where Tommy Lee Hudson was remarking on how serious Dan's problem was. 3. " `Jesus sh*t, you're f*cking` serious! Where you need to go, man? Just name the destination' " I like the way that Jon Land puts a lot of action into his stories. The fight scenes were the most exciting part of the book though. There were about three or four good fighting scenes. They were very exciting and action-packed too. They were long but very exciting. Here's a little piece of one of the fight. This fight was between ,the steel-armed Tungsten and giant man Felix.2. " Tung
