Larry Bond's First Team: Fires of War (Larry Bond's First Team)

By Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice

Book Overview

Larry Bond, New York Times bestselling author of Dangerous Ground , and Jim DeFelice have earned widespread acclaim for the gritty authenticity and spellbinding suspense of their military-political adventures involving the First Team. "The Team" lead by top CIA officer Bob Ferguson, and supported by Special Forces commando Stephen Rankin and Marine Jack Young, is authorized to take immediate action, beyond the bureaucratic restraints of US intelligence or the military establishment, in the ever-surprising War on Terror. After years of exhaustive negotiations, North Korea's Kim Jong Il abruptly agrees to surrender all of his nuclear weapons. This sudden change in policy has the US suspicious, and the Team is dispatched to uncover the truth. Newest Team operative, the young and beautiful Thera Majed, goes undercover during the preliminary inspections of the entire Korean peninsula, on a mission so sensitive that she will be disavowed if discovered. But when she discovers hidden weapons in South Korea, a firestorm of debate is set off in Washington. A public announcement of their suspicions could derail the North Korean agreement, and the South Korean government may not even be aware of the weapons' existence. Ferg and the rest of the Team jump in to investigate, and the closer they get to the truth, the harder mysterious forces work to keep them away. Someone is planning for a full-scale nuclear attack that would throw the civilized world into political and economic upheaval, and Ferg and the Team are the only ones in the position to stop them.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765307138
• ISBN13: 9780765307132
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 383 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Interesting plot

I try to read novels dealing with nuclear weapons, the genera I write in. The plot is built around extracting Pu-239 from spent nuclear reactor fuel rods. Uranium-235 or U-238 is used to make fuel pellets for a nuclear reactor. After a period of time, the fuel pellets are removed from the reactor and placed in a cooling pond, as the authors describe in the book. A small portion of uranium in the fuel pellets capture a neutron and become plutonium. Once cooled the pellets can be dissolved and the plutonium extracted--a very complex and dangerous process. The story is technically feasible, the authors do not tread into the highly technical area of nuclear weapons physics, and yet they manage to tell an interesting tale. My only complaint is the use of "bullets" instead of cartridges. A pistol, rifle, submachine gun, etc., is loaded with cartridges (brass case, primer, propellant, and a bullet). When the powder ignites, the bullet is propelled down the barrel. Both bond and DeFelice should know this. FIRES OF WAR is a good read for fans of action heroes. Bob Ferguson is less of a superman than some others, which makes the book an enjoyable read.

Fires of War

This book starts off kind of slow, but it builds momentum rapidly. The ending is quite suprising.

Pretty Good read.

Ive read the other First Team books, This one was worth the wait. I wasnt disappointed.

Better than others

I read this pretty quick and felt it was better than other First Team books, for the most part a "page turner". It seems more like Bond actually wrote a good bit of the book. In the others it didn't really seem like his writing. I could keep up with plot better than in other First Team books. It left me waiting to see what happens in the next one in series.