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Book Review By Jacob Hurt
Shadows of Steel by Dale Brown

A covert attack leaves Iran with virtually no offensive capabiility in the Persian gulf. In retaliation, the Iranian Navy sinks a U.S. spy vessel and take its crew hostage...Jon Masters, testing a new reconnaisance craft at the time, barely escapes. Now, Hal Briggs, with the help of his "good friend", a commando from another covert group, must rescue his crew. Meanwhile, Patrick McClanahan is tapped to fly the B-2 once again, and this time the stakes are higher than ever...because failure could mean another hostage crisis and another Gulf War...and it won't be as easy as the first...A chillingly feasible tale of what could go wrong in one of the most politically volatile places on earth...


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story:
War Thriller Yes
Armed Forces: - Special Forces
Specific to - near future war
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 %
Escape/rescue behind enemy lines? Yes

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Age: - 20's-30's

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status:
Motive of antagonist - power
The antagonists are: - Islamic Fundamentalists
How sensitive is this character?
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - West - Mid-Atlantic states
Asia/Pacific Yes
Asian country: - Arabia
Misc setting - prison - fort/military installation

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - actual description of sex
A lot of techno jargon? Yes
Kind of jargon? - military technology
Unusual forms of death - dropped from large heights - perforation--bullets - exploded into bits
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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