The Colonel's Mistake
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (736 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0090CJK28 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 500 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Superb thriller The Colonel's Mistake is a superb, fast-paced thriller set in Azerbijan and its dangerouly exploseive neighbors.Mr. Mayland writes of the area with the surety of one who has done more than flyover the area.The story is straight-forward and instantly involves the reader. Once you begin, you will not set it aside to pick up a few d. Very Fast-Paced This story has the pace of a Jason Bourne thriller. It's also a glimpse into a part of the world that Americans know little about except from news clips. I particularly liked that Mr. Mayland didn't waste valuable space on too many extraneous characters or overexplaning characters' actions or thought processes. Like many other re. Great start to a spy series that does things differently OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: This is a debut spy thriller that I read a few months ago. It's a fresh new take on the Great Game taking place in central Asia. As with most spy thrillers, they often take the road & tropes that has been beaten to death. This book however doesn't take that path and marks itself as a special debut.The reason fo
The first novel of a globetrotting new thriller series, The Colonel's Mistake takes listeners on an unforgettable ride into the shadows of the world's most volatile region, where the good, the bad, and the brutal play a deadly chess game of global espionage.. Back in Washington, DC, Colonel Henry Amato, assistant to the US national security advisor, is keeping a close watch on the situation. In Baku, Azerbaijan, CIA operations officer Daria Buckingham is arrested for a heinous crime. Her former boss, retired CIA station chief Mark Sava, is sure she's innocent and tries to help her out - landing him in the middle of the new Great Game, an espionage war over oil that has China, Iran, and the United States clawing at each other's throats. His stake in the Great Game is high - and personal