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Assassins
Assassins | Mike Bond
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"An exhilarating spy novel that offers equal amounts of ingenuity and intrigue." -- KIRKUS From its terrifying start in the night skies of Afghanistan to its stunning end in the Paris terrorist attacks, Assassins is a novel of the last 30 years of war between Islam and the West. Based on the author's experiences in the Middle East and elsewhere, Assassins reveals this unending conflict through the lives of an American commando, a French woman doctor, an Afghani terrorist, a Russian major, a British woman journalist, and a top CIA operative. Drop by parachute into the deadly mountains of Afghanistan, fight door to door in the bloody cities of Iraq and the lethal deserts of Syria, the Sinai and North Africa, know the terror of battle inside a Russian tank, feel the power of love when at any instant you both can die - it's all there, all real, in Assassins. Did the Saudi government finance 9/11? Did GW Bush let Osama bin Laden escape Afghanistan and then lie about Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq? Did Obama's decision to leave Iraq in 2011 lead to the rise of ISIS and its worldwide fanaticism? It's all there, all real, in Assassins. Multiple thrillers and love stories, a dissection of our present geopolitical tragedies and a meditation on the deepest duties of a military man toward those he commands, those he loves, and the nation he serves, it's all there, all real, in Assassins.
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JoRead
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I tried, I really tried but I just couldn't finish it. Past 25% and the story has hardly moved forward. And I just had the feeling that more than a tale it was a failed attempt at a South Asian geopolitical and military artillery lesson. Hopefully that changes later but I don't have time for that when I could be reading something I really enjoy 🤷‍♀️

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JoRead
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The overuse of the "word" girls to diminish the grown up male soldiers is getting on my nerves ???

Sace 🤬 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Insulting x a million! 6y
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JoRead
Assassins | Mike Bond
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I won this book through BookishFirst. Not my typical type of book but it sounds intriguing.

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JacintaMCarter
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In all honesty, I can only recommend this book to you if you fully believe that 9/11 was 100% an inside job funded by Bush (Sr. and Jr.), you hate absolutely everyone from the Middle East, and you suffer from some sort of delusional hero complex.

Bklover Oh. I think not. 😐 7y
EliNeedsMoreShelves Oh my. 😯 7y
minkyb Pass 7y
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JacintaMCarter
Assassins | Mike Bond
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Reagan The Bachman Books is my favourite! Have you read it before? 7y
JacintaMCarter @Reagan-reads I've read three of them. I'm on The Running Man right now. 7y
Reagan The Long Walk is my favourite! Running Man is so good. 7y
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JacintaMCarter
Assassins | Mike Bond
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The author spends this whole page making it sound like people from Kansas are idiots, but then calls the town Fort Hays. It stopped being an army fort in 1889. It's just Hays, Kansas. And we don't have a KIA dealership.

GypsyKat I hate when authors get stuff like this wrong. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 7y
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JacintaMCarter
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Between sickness and preparing for classes, I haven't done much reading lately, so this #TBRTuesday is pretty similar to last week's.

Cinfhen Feel better 😊💚 7y
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JacintaMCarter
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