Harold Coyle

I started and stopped this book a couple of times. It was a really long and boring listen. In addition, the script reader never learned to pronounce the letter "R" and should be forced to watch that episode of Sesame Street 100 times. The plot was long and boring and consisted of many battle scenes...well, duh, it was about the seven years war between Britain and France (maybe others); it played out in what is now the Eastern USA through the eyes of several on both sides of the conflict. The story was plodding and plodding. Don't know if more Coyle is in my future?… (mais)

Harold Coyle's first novel--follows a US Army company (about 130-150 with tanks) in action during the fictional stages of World War III. It's a very tactical view of Army operations in Germany during the 1980s. It contains lots of techno jargon incomprehensible to normal humans. Additionally, the ground over which they fought is hard to imagine as there are no maps in the audible version. The situations that were presented seemed plausible. The many characters were often hard to track. But, I'm not a tanker and don't want to be--just like the narrator. The book ended in a logical way. Action packed.… (mais)