SEAL Team Six: Hunt the Viper
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Don Mann and Ralph Pezzullo's shockingly authentic military thriller sends Thomas Crocker and his SEAL Team Six brothers to confront a notorious ISIS general, The Viper, during the occupation of Aleppo, Syria.
Despite the efforts of the Assad government and its Russian and Turkish allies, Syria is succumbing to the Islamic State. While Crocker and his SEAL Team Six comrades try to help a small Kurdish border town organize a resistance army, he finds an unexpected connection with Severine, a French epidemiologist working for Doctors Without Borders.
As Severine and her colleagues establish a makeshift hospital in besieged Aleppo, Crocker counsels caution. He knows too well that their NGO status will be no protection from the Viper, a notoriously vicious ISIS general with a deeply personal hatred of the West. When the Viper's men kidnap one of Severine's American colleagues, Crocker will pull every string at his disposal to launch a rescue mission. But in a situation where the US has no official business, he'll push every boundary of how far he's willing to go -- and how far his SEAL brothers in arms will follow him -- to save innocent lives.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mann and Pezzullo's uneven seventh military thriller featuring SEAL Team Six leader Tom Crocker (after 2016's Hunt the Dragon) finds Crocker in Iraqi Kurdistan, where a call comes in from coalition command ordering his team to rescue the survivors of a French helicopter crash 50 miles inside the Syrian border. During the drive to the downed helicopter, Crocker and partner Akil chat about the complications of tribal and religious strife in the region; the action picks up when they get into a firefight with some ISIS soldiers. The mission brings the team within range of ISIS commander Abu Samir al-Sufi (aka the Viper), a learned man and a fierce warrior. When al-Sufi captures a 24-year-old American working for Doctors Without Borders, Dyana Hood, and threatens to behead her, Crocker goes to the rescue. The resulting battle is brutal and people die, not all of them bad guys. The epic battle scenes compensate only in part for the extended history lectures and the forays into the team members' lives back home.
