β Scribed by Stephen Coonts
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Jake Grafton is back! After flying A-6 Intruders in Vietnam and, seventeen years later, commanding an air wing aboard a super carrier in the Mediterranean, Jake - now grounded - is assigned to the Pentagon where he is in charge of developing the navy's new top secret stealth attack plane, the A-l2.
Faced with political and technical problems at every turn, Jake soon finds himself drawn into the hunt for the Minotaur, a mole hidden in the Pentagon who is giving America's most precious defense secrets to the Russians. The FBI's chief spy-catcher is hot on the Minotaur's trail, or is he? Just who are the traitors in this Byzantine world of technocrats, politicians, and multi-billion dollar defense programs? Four people are dead and a test pilot is near death before Grafton hones in on the shocking identity of the Minotaur - and his even more chilling motive.
Combining authentic details of weapons strategies and stealth technology with an all-to-real story of the international trade in military secrets - and featuring the classic flying scenes that are Coonts' trademark - THE MINOTAUR confirms that Stephen Coonts is a modern master of suspense.
Coonts's third novel is a clever and unlikely paradox--a techno-thriller with a low-tech bias, at its best when indicting "techno-junk." Here he brings back Navy Captain Jake Grafton from what seemed certain death in Final Flight to take charge of developing a new tactical aircraft, the Minotaur, that depends on a variant of Stealth technology. Not only must Grafton tackle a prevailing mind-set equating elaborate gadgetry with combat performance, he must also cope with an information leak at the highest levels of the Defense Department labyrinth. Coonts is most compelling when he focuses on the politics of design and procurement; his comparisons of Navy and Air Force procedures are admirably sharp-edged. The parallel plot involving the Minotaur's exposure is also effective despite some sacrifice of clarity for suspense. Since neither the living room nor the bedroom is his metier, however, domestic descriptions slow the narrative. But Coonts retains the ability to write standout techno-thrillers, making this a winter-season favorite in its category. First serial to Playboy; BOMC selection; author tour.
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Stephen Coonts, like Jake Grafton, just keeps getting better. Tom Clancy
Wildly inventive . . . [Coonts] always seems to be a few months in front of the headlines and never gets a detail wrong. Ocala Star-Banner
Library : General
Universes : Jake Grafton [04]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780440207429
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