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A review by jfranco77
Under Siege by Stephen Coonts
4.0
There's a lot going on in this book. This book is from the 90s, when the War On Drugs was really a thing. It's very much a book of its time. The US military helped to extradite a Colombian drug lord (Chano Aldana), and they're putting him on trial in Washington DC. Aldana has a whole army of narcoterrorists who lay seige to Washington DC in response, including suicide squads and attempts on the President's life.
In return, the US army institutes martial law and shuts down DC. Jake Grafton and his faithful sidekick Toad are working in the Pentagon as part of some drug task force, so of course they're thrown into the action. Harrison Ronald Ford (I swear that's his real name) is an undercover cop embedded in with Freeman McNally's crack dealership operation. And there are other plots too.
If you sit and think about it, 20 years later, this book is nuts - DC turned into a war zone and Al Qaeda/ISIS nowhere to be found. The Henry Charon plot is outstanding, and gets this book a 4-star rating, even if there's probably too much going on elsewhere.
In return, the US army institutes martial law and shuts down DC. Jake Grafton and his faithful sidekick Toad are working in the Pentagon as part of some drug task force, so of course they're thrown into the action. Harrison Ronald Ford (I swear that's his real name) is an undercover cop embedded in with Freeman McNally's crack dealership operation. And there are other plots too.
If you sit and think about it, 20 years later, this book is nuts - DC turned into a war zone and Al Qaeda/ISIS nowhere to be found. The Henry Charon plot is outstanding, and gets this book a 4-star rating, even if there's probably too much going on elsewhere.