Paperback rights to Pocket Books Literary Guild dual main selection Military Book Club main selection major ad/promo. Coyle's prose is often clumsy, the chapter-head quotes (from Napoleon, Sherman et al.) are as pertinent as fortune cookies and the ending manages to be sentimental and ungrammatical at the same time. And confusion arrives with the authentic alphabet soup: lots of info about MRRs, RDEs, BDUs, etc. Interest is not sustained by the book's undeniable authenticity, which has all the style of a training manual. This is the 3rd time since it was first published that I have read this book, and am never bored. Coyle provides excellent detail on equipment, strategy, and tactics. Having been in the military during the cold war, I can say that Mr. But all the characters are paper-thin and all sound equally earnest and boring. Harold Coyle does it again with Sword Point. The narrative consists mainly of set pieces on back-and-forth desert fighting, flashing from one side to another and featuring some continuing characters. Publication date 1988 Topics United States. There is a little suspense about whether Iran, fighting both ``satans,'' will detonate an atomic bomb, and somewhat less about whether the U.S.S.R. ``places its trust in the ability of the individual soldier and his leaders.'' We are not surprised, therefore, when his thriller picks the winner of a two-month war between the superpowers in Iran. Army officer Coyle ( Team Yankee ) says that the Red Army treasures ``conformity and discipline'' while the U.S.
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