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Sto caricando le informazioni... Sucker Punch: Getting Killed Can Be The Least of Your Problemsdi Jim Carroll
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A Thriller.Johnny Mack wanted to be an airline pilot who flew all over the world, made great money and met lots of girls. At 18 that seemed like a fair trade for a few years in the Army.Johnny found out too late that in 1971 the Army only needed helicopter pilots. And they only needed them in Vietnam.After an unfortunate incident involving a General's daughter, Johnny 'volunteers' to go undercover on a Medevac crew suspected of selling Army medicines to the enemy.Johnny's control officer's incompetence is deadlier than any enemy. Johnny's crew are psychopathic pirates.Then there is the regular job. Coming into hot landing zones. Loading the dead and wounded. Ignoring the screaming and thrashing about in the back. Holding the helicopter steady as bullets rip through the bird. Cleaning out the blood and gore as part of the regular post flight.There is no one to trust. Death is coming from every direction.As life spirals out of his control, Johnny realizes that getting killed may be the least of his problems. His sanity, his soul and everything that he believes himself to be, are in as much danger as his life. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Rating: 2* of five
The Publisher Says: Johnny Mack wanted to be an airline pilot who flew all over the world, made great money and met lots of girls. At 18 that seemed like a fair trade for a few years in the Army.
Johnny found out too late that in 1971 the Army only needed helicopter pilots. And they only needed them in Vietnam.
After an unfortunate incident involving a General’s daughter, Johnny ‘volunteers’ to go undercover on a Medevac crew suspected of selling Army medicines to the enemy.
Johnny’s control officer’s incompetence is deadlier than any enemy. Johnny’s crew are psychopathic pirates.
Then there is the regular job. Coming into hot landing zones. Loading the dead and wounded. Ignoring the screaming and thrashing about in the back. Holding the helicopter steady as bullets rip through the bird. Cleaning out the blood and gore as part of the regular post flight.
There is no one to trust. Death is coming from every direction.
As life spirals out of his control, Johnny realizes that getting killed may be the least of his problems. His sanity, his soul and everything that he believes himself to be, are in as much danger as his life.
I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA NETGALLEY. THANK YOU.
My Review: A double-agent black-market-busting thriller in Vietnam by the author of The Basketball Diaries? Sign me up!, said my twentysomething avatar within.
I'm sixty-three, and the outer me trudged through horny-straight-boy stuff until he was ready to scream; then, at the end of chapter 23, the final blow to my youthful avatar was struck: "We'd never been called by the Ghost 4 call sign either. Everybody elsw just calld for a Dustoff."
Absent a lot more typing, I can't give you the whole context for that, but it was too much of the same kind of Army-speak in too little space for my tolerance. Which, I think I mentioned was already over-stretched by horny-straight-boy boob-obsessed boringness.
I had the thought, as I read along, that Waino Mellas of Matterhorn fame, never once gave me this kind of eyerolling impatience. It seems not to be the subject matter, then, but the execution I'm not responding well to. (