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Sword point harold coyle5/10/2023 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. In the 1988 techno-thriller 'Sword Point' by Harold Coyle, the 25th Armored Division is the designation given to one of the formations mobilized to counter a Soviet invasion of Iran. But all the characters are paper-thin and all sound equally earnest and boring. The narrative consists mainly of set pieces on back-and-forth desert fighting, flashing from one side to another and featuring some continuing characters. 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. Sword Point: a novel by Harold Coyle First published in 1988 6 editions in 1 language 3 previewable Borrow Listen The ten thousand: a novel by Harold Coyle First published in 1993 6 editions in 1 language 2 previewable Borrow Listen Pandoras Legion: Harold Coyles Strategic Solutions, Inc.
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