Code of Honor by Harold Coyle (Epub)

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From America’s acclaimed master of the war novel comes Harold Coyle’s most gripping thriller yet as he takes readers to a new level of battlefield realism and excitement in this story that echoes the complex U.S. military mission in today’s world.

A corrupt and fractured government in Bogota, Columbia, requests a small expeditionary force of U.S. troops to combat drug lords and a growning insurgency.

This scenario for disaster unfolds as the 11th Air Assault Dvision is called to action as a police forced as Brigadier General Scott Dixon reports back that this is a war America cannot win.

With careers hanging in the balance, Captain Nancy Kozak struggles to survive an explosive crash that pits resolve against prejudice, and honor against ambition.

User’s Reviews

Review “Kirkus Reviews” Authentic….An all-too-plausible foreign-relations/military snafu, plus credible portrayals of women-at-arms. another winner for coyle and his ongoing cast of heroines as well as heroes.

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:

⭐ Shipped on time and as advertised.

⭐ Good story. Several of the characters from his previous books, more experienced and advanced in rank. Better if you had read the previous books in the series, but fully understandable if this is your first of Coyle’s books. A minor issue was the editing. In my copy it seemed a few times throughout the book the same basic lines were repeated.

⭐ Great book. All of Coyle’s books are worth reading.

⭐ Harold Coyle brings realism to his readers as he puts his story on paper. His subject is something that he knows and has lived himeself. I have read most of his works and have enjoyed each one.

⭐ Great book

⭐ Just two minor quibbles, the first being the slightly cartoonish Lane character who was predictable and stereotyped every step of the way despite some attempt to flesh him out, second being a hurried ending that closed the court martial with a footnote rather than the big bang that it was building up towards.However, these are small issues. Coyle’s take on the Colombian drug war is arguably superior to its equivalents in Tom Clancy’s overplotted Clear and Present Danger and Ralph Peters’ Twilight of Heroes. Other than Lane, all other characters are well-realised and the gripping narrative is tinged with an affecting touch of sadness. Emotions practically exploded off the pages after the tragic fiasco in the jungle.I regard this novel as one of the best post-Cold War technothrillers, if it can be called that. Although the genre effectively lay down and died due to the paucity of credible sparring opponents for the might of the US, Code Of Honour shines like a rare gem in the overall decline. Highly recommended.

⭐ Harold Coyle was a military officer and thus knows how to protray military action and the reactions of the men and women caught up in the organized chaos that is war. He also shows how in a peacetime military a talented rank climber with decent admin skills and good performance in war games can get command of a frontline divivsion. No imcompetance here folks, just the Peter-principal in action. Cpt. Kozack’s actions are not unusual givin the circumstances nor would be Gen. Lane’s but to be fair to the Dog-faces (I’m a Jarhead) I believe that once Lane’s incompetance was shown, the good captain would get off easily. Sure, she wouldn’t get a medal but her career would survive and Lane would become a glorified gofer in the puzzle palace. The interplay between a hero-general, his protage, and a well connented politician in uniform is very well played out if ending in a bit of a anti-climax. But it must be said that these things often end this way.Were Coyle again goes wrong in on his political background (he did the same in TEN THOUSAND: seven barely adequately trained divisions vs. even one crack US division and the USN, USMC and ASAF air wings (who would have been brought in)? Come on!). First of all FARC (as pretty much everyone, even THEM, admits) is the worlds largest single suppliers of cocaine in the world (70%). They also engage routinely in massacres, kidnapping, and extortion. Sure the right-wing paramilitaries also do these three things, but even Amnesty International admits that FARC has them beat. Thus to my mind making FARC so bloody pure is a stretch to astound Mr. Fantastic and bit insulting really, not to mention odd for such a Army veteran. I chalk it up to literary stretching for sake of story (as I did for the TEN THOUSAND) but I hope that in the future that Major Coyle will change the names of his background organizations enabling readers to suspend belief easier.

⭐ Code of Honor is a cautionary book on sending American troops to other countries without a clear objective. Not too different from Vietnam. I think Coyle romanticizes rebel life a little too much. This romanticism is shown from the eyes of a former teacher-now-turned FARC rebel. The book could have been more objective in that the rebels are nowhere morally better than the government. They’d actually be into kidnap, and extortion.After the previous book, The Ten Thousand, the tension between mainstays Dixon and Jan Fields is much less. And not much is explored with Capt. Nancy Kozak and her beau. I shall miss one of the familiar characters in the series. The story feels lacking and it could be due to limiting the story to about 500+ pages.

⭐ it’s a book that will leave you frustrated and yet somehow elated at the results. Two U.S. Army Generals face off behind the scenes of a ficticous quagmire war based in Columbia, with the lives and careers of Army officers at stake.

⭐ Great series. I am reading it right now again. Like the connection between the books.

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