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Mission Compromised
by: Oliver L. North, Joe Musser

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780060555849
ISBN: 006055584X
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 656
Publication Date: September 01, 2003
Publisher: HarperTorch
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Studio: HarperTorch
Sales Rank: 191810

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
From Oliver North, bestselling author, combat-decorated military hero, and devoted patriot, comes a blisteringly authentic novel of duty, treason, corrupted truth, and stolen honor -- a breathtaking adventure ripped from today's headlines.

Major Peter Newman, U.S.M.C., has always answered his country's call -- but now he’s being asked to prove his loyalty as never before. Named as head of the White House Special Projects Office, Newman is given an assignment that is essential to his nation's future: to hunt down and eliminate the world's most dangerous terrorists before they can unleash terrifying weapons of mass destruction on the U.S. Only a handful of the Washington elite know of his covert mission, and undertaking it will place Peter Newman in the center of a raging maelstrom of intrigue, revenge, lies, and ultimate betrayal, pitting one man against devastating forces that could destroy everything he holds dear.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Quick Review
Fiction or non-fiction? Could go either way. Military plot in the style of Tom Clancy, but not nearly as technical as Clancy's books can be. Very good story tended to wander a few times. The overt religious aspects got distracting after awhile. Entertaining. Will probably pick up more of his work in the future.

Rating:

- Great book!
I really enjoy these kinds of books that involve the military, mixed with Christianity and even some romance. A great book and a great series. I will be reading this again.

Rating:

- Potential wasted by too many subplots, unfocused storytelling
Mission Compromised seems to have all it takes to make a great novel: military adventure, political intrigue, terrorism, an inside view of the corridors of power. But despite all of this, it fails. The main problem is there's too much going on at once and North, Musser and the editors didn't know when to cut out what's irrelevant. Every character and every object is described with so much detail, often several pages of back story, that the pace becomes much too slow. And the subplot with Newman's wife's love affair and religious conversion really distracts. Once the action starts, suddenly the story switches to her going to church. This was North's first novel and I get the feeling he had so much he wanted to say, and he wanted to say it all in one book. The result may be sincere, a labor of ... Read More

Rating:

- eye opener
What a fantastic, eye opening story! Not my usual read, as I am a single, white female, over 50. I had no idea these scenarios could be a reality. Once the stage was set in the book, I was truly entranced.

Rating:

- Very, Very Enjoyable
I think it was summed up best by another poster who said, "If not for the trying-too-hard-to-deliver-a-Christian-Message sections, it would have easily sat near the top of the techno/military thriller pile." A lot of the Christianity passages seemed forced, weren't relative to the story, and a bit boring. Thankfully, they're short, like he KNEW that it wouldn't be received well. I don't object to it all, the Christian network of believers that helped him so greatly were pertinent to the story, and weren't coming across as a sidebar. All in all, the book (as well as Jericho Sanction) was suspenseful, fun to read, and hard to put down.

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