Funny story about a woman who murders her husband, and her nephew who witnesses racial problems in Alabama in 1965. Rated "R" for violence, langauge, sexual situations.
SMOKE QUOTE:
Lucille discovered how depressing it is to smoke a cigarette in the back of a squad car with your wrists cuffed so you have to rest elbows on thighs and bring the cigarette to your lips with both hands.--pg. 301
Moose's apartment on Alcatraz catches fire while he is baby-sitting his sister Nat. They escape, but how did the fire happen? Did Natalie start it? Questions to be answered. Natalie is such an amazing girl, and Moose is an amazing brother.
Three children fly to Colorado, but land in a very strange place. Things get weirder and weirder, until the end, when they get VERY intense. I should have foreseen the ending, but I did not! And I still don't know what is with all the birds!
Pretty good story of a new quartermaster weathering a huge storm on a destroyer during World War II. Written in 1970, the author drops the N-bomb in the subplot involving the heroic efforts by tne Negro CPO mess guy to save the ship during the big blow. A Withdrawn book.
Words I Had To Look Up:
Pelorus -- A fixed compass card on which bearings relative to a ship's heading are taken.
The Emir plans to blowup a nuclear device down in Yucca Flats. Among other things. Jack Jr. is on the job, along with the rest of the gang from previous books. Very long. Some odd typos. Lots of action!
Jack Ryan is president, the Iranians try to kill the USA with Ebola virus, the Indians are irritating, and the Chinese are inscrutible. Follows Debt of Honor, precedes Rainbow Six.
With co-author Mark Greaney. Terrorists steal a couple of nukes from Pakistan. Jack Jr. dates a woman who inexplicably turns out to be spying him. Some annoying right-wing views. Everyone who is liberal is bad, everyone conservative is good. Tedious. But not as bad as that John Ringo book. But, I keep reading 'em!