At 05:20 PM 8/4/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I read OPERATION FIREBALL the other day and liked it.
It gets a little
>unbelievable at the end, when Earl Drake and three
guys con their way into
>Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and then break out and head to
Havana to steal
>millions of hidden dollars, but it's a good tough
story without any
>frippery. Is this the first Drake book? He comes off
as a cross between
>Parker and McGee. It's the first one I've read, but
I'll look for more.
Actually, the only the first two books are excellent, after
that, they're just standard 60s spy stories. The Name of the
Game is Death and it's sequel, One Endless Hour, are much
better hard-boiled stories. Closer to Parker with no traces
of McGee, except, as someone else said, rage is the
motivating force behind Earl Drake's persona. "Hour" also had
a slightly different title in some editions, but I can't
remember it.
As for the plot point:
****SPOILER ALERT******
(don't scroll down if you may want to read this book in the
future)
Since this is actually a government operation, security was
probably instructed "hands off." That's why it's so easy to
get onto and out of Gitmo.
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