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Just for kicks, here's the M-9 entry, for the pistols used in the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M9_pistol
If you read Wilbur Smith's new book, Those in Peril, the rifle most used by the good guys is the Beretta M-70/90. I wasn't quite sure what it looked like, so I Searched it. Scroll way down in this article to see an Italian soldier (she's cute) with one.
The primary pistol is the Beretta 9mm, presumably the M-92FS.
The book has gotten some really bad reviews on Amazon. com for its scenes of savagery by Somali pirates, but that should have been anticipated given the nature of the book. And Smith does sometimes go for a "gross-out" factor.
I like the book, and it reminds me a little of the style of his, Dark of the Sun, also marketed as, The Train From Katanga. The movie was called, Africa Ablaze as well as Dark of the Sun.
The main flaws are that some of the dialogue rings false for the particular speaker. The heroine's daughter doesn't speak like a teen raised in the USA. And the American captain of the huge tanker ship toward the last has a very British sounding name, although he's from the American South. And some of the daughter's dialogue just seems too cute for a modern US teen who's spoiled to the degree that she was. She sounds too Victorian in some places...but only in her speech.
Smith also refers to Denver City in one place, although he gets it back down to just Denver otherwise. I like that the heroine lives in Houston, from which she manages her multibillion dollar corporation, Bannock Oil. The hero seems okay, too.
Are you reading this? What do you think of it? I like it and will keep my copy, but in some ways, it isn't his best writing. It is much better than, The Quest. I couldn't even finish that. Just didn't sustain interest, and I never cared for the protagonist.
I'm going to have to look up a Burgundy wine they drank. It's supposed to be super and very expensive, so I'd have thought he'd have chosen the Domaine de la Romanee Conti's stuff or maybe Chambertin. I'd have gone for a Bordeaux like Chateau Latour or maybe a nice red from the heroine's grandmother's estate near Cape Town. Her uncle was the winemaker there, too. Alas, the pirates did something really bad at that estate. You're gonna hate Somali/Arab pirates after you read this. (If you don't already.)
Just for kicks, here's the M-9 entry, for the pistols used in the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M9_pistol
If you read Wilbur Smith's new book, Those in Peril, the rifle most used by the good guys is the Beretta M-70/90. I wasn't quite sure what it looked like, so I Searched it. Scroll way down in this article to see an Italian soldier (she's cute) with one.
The primary pistol is the Beretta 9mm, presumably the M-92FS.
The book has gotten some really bad reviews on Amazon. com for its scenes of savagery by Somali pirates, but that should have been anticipated given the nature of the book. And Smith does sometimes go for a "gross-out" factor.
I like the book, and it reminds me a little of the style of his, Dark of the Sun, also marketed as, The Train From Katanga. The movie was called, Africa Ablaze as well as Dark of the Sun.
The main flaws are that some of the dialogue rings false for the particular speaker. The heroine's daughter doesn't speak like a teen raised in the USA. And the American captain of the huge tanker ship toward the last has a very British sounding name, although he's from the American South. And some of the daughter's dialogue just seems too cute for a modern US teen who's spoiled to the degree that she was. She sounds too Victorian in some places...but only in her speech.
Smith also refers to Denver City in one place, although he gets it back down to just Denver otherwise. I like that the heroine lives in Houston, from which she manages her multibillion dollar corporation, Bannock Oil. The hero seems okay, too.
Are you reading this? What do you think of it? I like it and will keep my copy, but in some ways, it isn't his best writing. It is much better than, The Quest. I couldn't even finish that. Just didn't sustain interest, and I never cared for the protagonist.
I'm going to have to look up a Burgundy wine they drank. It's supposed to be super and very expensive, so I'd have thought he'd have chosen the Domaine de la Romanee Conti's stuff or maybe Chambertin. I'd have gone for a Bordeaux like Chateau Latour or maybe a nice red from the heroine's grandmother's estate near Cape Town. Her uncle was the winemaker there, too. Alas, the pirates did something really bad at that estate. You're gonna hate Somali/Arab pirates after you read this. (If you don't already.)
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