Richard Herman, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (408p) ISBN 978-0-380-97699-7
Despite a myriad of subplots and characters, Herman's latest intricately woven, grandly schemed techno-melodrama (after Against All Enemies) delivers solid entertainment with nary a hitch. Set in 2002, it continues the travails of Madeline (Maddy)...
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Richard Herman, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (416p) ISBN 978-0-380-97700-0
Like the Texas oil drillers at the heart of the story, Herman's latest military thriller is big and brawny and blustery--showing bulge around the middle, but still carrying its weight reasonably well. RayTex Oil, a small but feisty company out of...
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Richard Herman, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55611-097-9
Though the initial chapters are devoid of tension, and much of the plotting is inept, once this military thriller gets under way, first novelist Herman leaves no doubt that he knows fighter-flying. Egypt-based U.S. fighters destroy a Libyan MIG that
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Richard Herman, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (390p) ISBN 978-1-55611-152-5
Set in the immediate future, this sequel to The Warbirds tells of a mission to rescue 300 Air Force prisoners left in Iranian hands at the end of the first novel. Starting slowly, with many flashbacks to its predecessor and confusing shifts of scene,
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Richard Herman, Author McNally & Loftin Publishers $20 (380p) ISBN 978-0-688-10668-3
Master of the techno-thriller, Herman ( The Warbirds ) moves from the tactical level to the strategic with this fast-paced novel of a Middle East Armageddon. In this near-future scenario, Iraq, incautiously allowed to recover fully from the Second...
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Richard Herman, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (432p) ISBN 978-0-688-11438-1
This engrossing, character-based thriller by the author of Firebreak divides its time between the present day and WW II. In the present, a feared drug-smuggling organization kidnaps the daughter of powerful Sen. William Courtland, planning to use...
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Richard Herman, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (413p) ISBN 978-0-671-87306-6
The A-10 tank-killer aircraft, so effective during Desert Storm, is nicknamed the ``Warthog'' in affectionate recognition of its stubby but powerful lines. Herman's latest tribute to Air Force machismo (after Force of Eagles ) takes an A-10 squadron
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Richard Herman, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-81070-6
The topical perils of a U.N. peacekeeping mission are plunked down in the middle of South Africa as USAF Col. Mat Pontowski, the dashing hero of Herman's previous books (Dark Wing, etc.), is once again pressed into his government's service. Helped...
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Richard Herman, Author Avon Books $23 (404p) ISBN 978-0-380-97320-0
With the sudden death of the president of the U.S., Madeleine (Maddy) O'Keith Turner, the first woman vice president, unexpectedly adds a more earth-shaking first to her name. Herman (Force of Eagles) surrounds his woman president with enemies both...
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Richard Herman, Author, R. Herman, Author William Morrow & Company $15.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-380-97321-7
Mixing high- and low-tech espionage, Air Force missions and politics into a credible and exciting plot with attractive characters and breakneck action, Herman's latest (after Power Curve, 1997) is a sure winner. When a Sudanese terrorist group is...
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Richard Herman, Author . Morrow $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-620976-0
Maestro of the military thriller, Herman (The Trojan Sea) offers a panoramic, jet-propelled epic long on battles, political intrigue and, unfortunately, tangential subplots. Reprising their roles from Edge of Honor, Maddy Turner, the beleaguered...
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