Prometheus’s Child: Harold Coyle’s Strategic Solutions, Inc. by Barrett Tillman (Epub)

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In this explosive series from New York Times bestseller Harold Coyle and noted military author Barrett Tillman, a new type of war is being fought by private paramilitary companies at the beck and call of the highest bidder. With the military and intelligence agencies spread thin, the United States is constantly calling upon the services of these organizations–and Strategic Solutions Inc. is among the best.

What begins as a relatively simply military-training mission in Chad turns into a high-stakes game of nuclear brinkmanship as the men and women of Security Solutions, Inc. stumble across a plot to extract and ship yellowcake–the base fuel for a nuclear weapon–to any number of countries hostile to the US. The in-country force tracks the operation to a supposedly abandoned remote mine in the desert.They strike, but a convoy carrying the yellowcake shipment escapes their trap.

With time running out, the SSI teams must pull together like they never have before to find a ship in international waters and recover its deadly cargo–by any means necessary.

User’s Reviews

From Publishers Weekly The gripping second Strategic Solutions Inc. military thriller from Coyle and Tillman (after Pandora’s Legion) details the workings of a PMC, or private military contractor. The U.S. government, which wants plausible deniability if things go wrong, hires SSI to send a team to a corrupt, unstable Chad to train its army in counterinsurgency techniques. The authors dig into the contract negotiations, move through the operation’s organization and planning stages, and open out into training and the operation itself. Things begin to fall apart when stopping a secret shipment of yellow cake uranium destined for Iran takes precedence over the SSI team’s original mission. An overabundance of characters leaves little time for development, but the operational minutiae are absorbing (even the contract negotiations), and the action, which ranges from the desert to the high seas, explosive. The authors keep reader interest high from the intriguing beginning to the final promethean twist. (Oct.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review “Coyle is best when he’s depicting soldiers facing death . . . He knows soldiers and and he understands the brotherhood of arms mystique and transcends national boundaries.”–The New York Times

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ The release of the second book in this series is well timed. As the world looks to question the rolls of Private Military Contractors for world governments, this novel gives us a second look at the men and women of Strategic Solutions, Inc and the jobs they under take to protect and serve the interest of the United States when politics and Armies can’t make do.This fictional look at a real subject may give you insight into the truth of the real world of the PMC. It is not James Bond, or the Bourne spy series but it is not trying to be. It is a look at a very real way of solving problems through the eyes of fictional PMC’s.

⭐ I was a big fan of Harold Coyle and I own all of his books. This effort was terrible. I tried very hard but I could only get to page 60 and then I gave up. It lacked a structure and was all over the place. It was a big disappointment for me after being such a big fan of Harold’s

⭐ Good story line, believable characters.

⭐ A good red but disappointment compared to his previous books

⭐ This was my first venture into the books of Harold Coyle. After struggling through this book, it may be my last. However, looking through my wonderful pile books to read, I see I have The Ten Thousand. That one may have to sit for awhile, until my literary palette is cleansed.I felt this story never got going and the premise seemed promising, but ultimately weak. The book had the feeling that the author didn’t care to write it either, especially considering it is nearly 400 pages. There was no character that I cared for or got to know. Some of the dialogue was atrocious (Martha Whitney; the use of “dude”).It was a good look into the private military companies, and the setting in Chad was at least something I hadn’t read before.Glad I only paid $1.00 for it. Hope The Ten Thousand will key an interest for more Coyle.

⭐ Private contractors are much in the news, but despite all the attention (most of it negative) these days, I found that Harold Coyle sheds interesting, informative light on PMCs. While some contractors seem to cross the line on occasion, Coyle’s team plays it straight, even when it’s dangerous to do so. In that regard, his characters are typical of the security firms I know of. They’re well trained, well paid pros in a very dangerous game. (Last I heard, about 1,000 have been killed in the war on terror.) Another thing I like about this series is Coyle’s description of how the operators get hired. After so-called “right sizing” in the 1990s, the US military was caught short handed on 9/11, and private contractors were needed as never before. That’s part of the plot in this book, and Coyle and Tillman deserve credit for showing that aspect of the business as nobody else has done, to my knowledge.

⭐ Harold Coyle’s early novels were some of the best military fiction out there. How he could put his name on this embarrassment is beyond me. Thinly drawn characters that you could scarcely care about, and more board meetings than any masochistic MBA could desire. A special operator who planned the mission against the mining compound would be court martialed. A 2LT fresh out of OCS would have planned and executed better. W.E.B. Griffin and Tom Clancy should be fined for allowing their back cover blurbs to help entice poor suckers like me.Minor quibble: Page 306 – character asks for 7.62 miniguns — highest priority, op-immediate. Is delighted to receive M60 machine guns. Wee bit of difference! Disgust would be the appropriate reaction. But that gaffe pales to someone else’s book where the sniper had a 50mm sniper rifle. What would it use for a suppressor? A truck muffler?

⭐ This book went on and on with such a slow pace and lack of direction that only sheer willpower and the hope that it would get better let me finish. Mr. Coyle’s normal fast pace, strong plot and memorable character development are missing in a big way; so much so that I finished it more because I refuse to quit than out of anything resembling enjoyment.Mr. C needs to pause, take a deep breath, find an editor that will have the guts to tell him “this stinks” and not lend his name to any more carp written by others, and if he was actively engaged in writing this book perhaps he has finally burnt out.And as always:Would I look at any other books by this author in the future? MaybeWould I spend list price on it again? No.. in fact if I could return it I would.

⭐ I purchased the first book in this series based on Coyle’s past work. I didnt make past page 40. Shame on you Coyle for publishing this dreck.

⭐ Surprisingly banal and plodding, there was very little combat in this offering by Coyle and Tillman. Much of the novel focuses on the administrative minutiae of running a mercenary organization — do we need ex-SEALs or – Rangers? Should we trust the Dept. of State or the NSA? Can we afford to do this or that? These conversations drag on, page after page. A new genre is born: Administrative Military Fiction.

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