#3 in the Countdown modern-day military adventure series.
Welcome to the Philippines outback. It's a true garden spot, if you happen to like drug running, bush-bound revolutionary movements, Balkanized tribal warfare, illegal weapons trading, and kidnapping for fun and profit. It's hostage rescue time once again for Terry Welch's special operations company. But this is turning out to be one of those missions. Starting with no clue as to the hostage's whereabouts topped off by Welch and his crew having to endure a rifle company of hated competitors supposedly sent along for reinforcement.
Part of the territory for Welch. But then an attack on both companies' home bases leaves families and friends under threat of death and any available support scurrying to defend. Worse, advance team members sent to reconnoiter have been taken hostage as well. No help, no backup, team members in the soup.
Welch knows there's only one solution: do whatever it takes. This is H Hour. And the fight is on.
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Product ReviewI was under the impression that bullets required for sound supression should not exceed the sound barrier (aprox 1140 fps). Nearly every .45acp round travels at less than 900fps it would seem that commonly available ammunition, not special ammo would fit the bill. I suggest 200gr Gold Dots if you don't want to use ball ammo.
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Product ReviewI don't think I want to live in the world the Colonel portrays, but everyday, I fear we're headed down towards that cliff with no way out. But apart from that, this is a great book and is classic Col. Kratman.
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Product ReviewIt takes a few books to get past Tom Kratman's politics, but once you've done so, it turns out he writes very good military action stories. ==== Recommended
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Product ReviewCounterpart story to Countdown: M Day (takes place concurrently). Since the stories are almost completely unrelated, it would make no sense to interleave the action in a single work.
I am not sure why it was necessary to have both stories run simultaneously, other than to preclude an easy out for the protagonists that would be present if they could just get reinforcements from home when the going gets tough.
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