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Admiral Ian Hardcastle creates the "Border Security Force", or Hammerheads. They take on drug smugglers using modified V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft and converted oil platforms.
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The review of this Book prepared by ryan mellish




Patrick McClanahan and Brad Elliott, the secret heroes of the Flight of the Old Dog, are on the front lines of the drug war, fighting in a new organization, the Border Security Force, created by a Coast Guard admiral. For a long time it seems that this approach to fighting smugglers is tremendously successful...But nobody can predict what a rogue Cuban colonel and his group of well-equipped pilots will do in order to get their drugs through...A thrilling look at a new way to fight the war on drugs...
The review of this Book prepared by Jacob Hurt



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Plot & Themes

Composition of Book descript. of violence and chases 50%Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 30%Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 10%How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) 10% Tone of story    -   suspenseful (sophisticated fear) Time/era of story:    -   2000+ (Present) War Thriller    -   Yes Armed Forces:    -   Navy    -   Special Forces    -   Coast Guard Specific to    -   near future war Kid or adult book?    -   Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character

Gender    -   Male    -   Female Profession/status:    -   police/lawman    -   pilot, civilian Age:    -   20's-30's    -   40's-50's Ethnicity/Race    -   White/American

Setting

United States    -   Yes The US:    -   Southeast The Americas (not US):    -   Yes The Americas:    -   Mexico    -   The Caribbean    -   Central    -   South Air?    -   Yes Air:    -   warplane Misc setting    -   fort/military installation    -   fancy mansion

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   moderately detailed references to deaths    -   very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies A lot of techno jargon?    -   Yes Kind of jargon?    -   military technology Unusual forms of death    -   dropped from large heights    -   drowned    -   perforation--bullets    -   exploded into bits Unusual form of death?    -   Yes Amount of dialog    -   roughly even amounts of descript and dialog    -   significantly more descript than dialog

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