Thriller

Domers

Title: Domers
Author: David Couzins
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: jim greenwald

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0983086303

2080 A.D., the United States is a “virtual” country where citizens live sealed inside millions of family-sized domes protected from the terrors of the Outside. A betrothed couple is kidnapped from their home and for the first time is exposed to Nature and to Freedom while getting caught up in a multi-tribe Native American army’s war with Mexico.

Author(s) Mentioned: 
Couzins, David

Cooch

Title: Cooch
Author: Robert Cook
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: Joyce Faulkner

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 0984315500

lejandro Mohammed Cuchulain, called Cooch or Alex, became a Marine at sixteen and a CIA special-operations trainee at 17. His father is a wheel-chair bound former marine and Medal of Honor winner who gives Alex advice as to how to survive in a violent world. His mother is the daughter of a Bedouin sheikh who sends a young Alex off, during his summer breaks, to experience the Bedouin life. The combination of a very young start in learning the art and craft of violence, combined with a thirst for knowledge combine to help him to become both a noted designer and user of explosives and an expert in Islamic affairs. Violent, yet thoughtful, Cooch represents the best in fast-moving, popular thrillers.

Ah, the conundrum of civilized behavior. If you deal with animals by using animal behavior against them, are you civilized for protecting the society, whatever it takes, or have you become an animal and consequently not fit to mingle in civilized society?"

Author(s) Mentioned: 
Cook, Robert

Mullahs Storm, The

Title: The Mullahs Storm
Author: Thomas Young
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: Carmen Stenholm

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): B005ZO6384

A U.S. Air Force transport plane takes off from Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, carrying a high-value Taliban detainee bound for prison and interrogation. Insurgents shoot down the plane with a shoulder-launched missile, and it crash lands in the Hindu Kush mountains. A strong winter storm makes a rescue impossible. A surviving crew member, navigator Michael Parson, along with a female Army interpreter, must now evade capture in hostile territory with a prisoner who would like very much for them to get caught. A battle for survival begins across some of the most forbidding terrain on earth.

Author(s) Mentioned: 
Young, Thomas W.

Pirates & Cartels

Title: Pirates & Cartels
Author: Lee & Vista Boyland
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: jim greenwald

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1609109198

Award-winning authors pen a new, exciting page-turner—Pirates and Cartels the debut novel for their OAS series. America’s president, George Alexander, sends his secret weapons, female operatives FBI Special Agent Teresa Lopez, and Delta’s first female shooters, Erica Borgg and Melissa Adams, to Mexico—their assignments—to ferret out corrupt government officials and ID cartel kingpins for termination. Alexander and Mexico’s President Vincente Wolf form a secret alliance and develop a plan to destroy the cartels and their golden goose—the drug trade. Jihadists, and Mexican and Somali pirates throw kinks in the two leader’s plan

Author(s) Mentioned: 
Boyland, Lee
Boyland, Vista

Project Dragonslayers

Title: Project Dragonslayers
Author: Kathy Rowe
Genre: Fiction, Thriller
Reviewer: jim greenwald

ISBN (links go to the MWSA Amazon store): 1935605070

US Air Force Lt. Col. Eagle Tryggvesson got more than she bargained for when she tangled with Navy Rear Admiral Richard Westland over a proposal for an elite Special Forces unit. Eventually losing the battle, Westland swore that she would fail- he would make certain of that. Eagle must fight against discrimination and corruption to put her highly unorthodox team together. She arrives at China Lake Naval Weapons Station to find the beginnings of Westland's sabotage. It would be up to her and the members of her team to beat the deck that had been stacked against them.

Her second in command is the handsome and brilliant Maj. D.M. Elliott who falls in love with her despite their difference in rank and the prohibitive chain of command. They must work together to keep their team and their love alive. The team battles terrorists, violent gang members, and their own personal demons along with the frightening bouts of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that haunt many warriors.

Author(s) Mentioned: 
Rowe, Kathy

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