Full Assault Mode

At the outset of Fury’s exciting if slightly muddled third Delta Force novel (after Tier One Wild), Delta commander Maj. Kolt “Racer” Raynor is in Afghanistan hunting down terrorists—in particular, Haji Mohammed Ghafour, a Pashtun elder linked to real-life terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri. Both men are considered dangerous to the American homeland, and intel shows that Ghafour is planning attacks on nuclear power plants in the U.S. When Kolt disobeys orders to rescue one of his team members on the mission, he gets kicked out of Delta. He soon joins an ultrasecret group called Tungsten, headquartered in Atlanta, where he takes on the job of defusing the terrorist plan to attack the nuclear plants. Several subplots vie for attention, and tighter editing would have made for a less confusing plot, but the action scenes make up for any perplexities. The upbeat ending points to Kolt being welcomed back to Delta and a new round of adventures. [em]Agent: Scott Miller, Trident Media Group. (May) [/em]