Marc Reeve wrote:

Mary Shafer wrote:

On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 21:24:35 GMT, Guy Alcala
wrote:

Come to think of it, Coyle's first or
second book was set in Korea.

His first, "Team Yankee", was set in Germany, west of the Fulda Gap.

And the second one, "Sword Point", was set in Iran.

Can't think of any of Coyle's books that take place in Korea.

Yeah, you're right. I could swear that he wrote one and I know he served
there, but I can't seem to find it. I appear to be confusing it with
Bond's "Red Phoenix" or something else - for some reason I've never gotten
into Bond.

I just prefer Coyle's much more nuanced approach to Clancy's cartoons -
comparing say "Code of Honor" or "God's Children" to "Clear and Present
Danger", the difference between the two authors' approach is stark. I'll
be curious to see if Coyle writes one about Iraq; Clancy's approach would
be to write about the period of "major combat" and end it there when the
good guys 'won', in a victory for truth, justice and the american way.
Coyle would be writing about the whole last year, having to choose from a
bunch of bad options and co-opt people who often aren't very nice and/or
have their own agendas, collateral damage (there isn't any in a Clancy
book, at least none caused by the US -our weapons either score bullseyes or
miss/malfunction in open ground), the war would be fought by hot, dirty,
tired and scared 19 year-old PFCs led by 25 year old Sgts. instead of stock
Hollywood 'characters' led by John Wayne or Harrison Ford, etc.

Guy