The first in the best selling 'Jon Hunt' series about the modern Royal Navy and the momentous events of the end of the twentieth century. Not just military novels but thrillers in their own right. They have been described as a modern day 'Hornblower' or even more accurately the British 'Top Gun'. Written by someone who actually experienced many of the real events that the series based upon.
None of the Argentinian Exocet missiles fired during the Falklands war actually exploded. This is factually true and there has never been a satisfactory explanation.
This book, although a novel, is based on the personal experiences of the author, a Lynx helicopter pilot and many other true stories from the Falklands War that have never been fully told before.
So, how do you counter your own weapon system when it’s turned against you? The Falklands War posed just this problem.
January 1982 and the Exocet sea skimming missile is a killer. The British should know, they co-developed it with the French. However, the Argentinians have them as well. Marcel Bertrand a French missile expert, who has been made redundant, is recruited to help them.
2 April 1982, Argentina invades the Falklands. Soon after, Lieutenant Jon Hunt flies his Lynx helicopter from HMS Prometheus with a Special Forces team to covertly infiltrate the Argentinian Air base at Rio Grande. His mission is to persuade Marcel who has been kept in the dark about the invasion, to agree to work for them. Once Jon explains the truth about the invasion Marcel and his girlfriend Maria agree to help and manage to modify the missiles warheads with a software update so that they won’t explode.
As the war hots up, Argentina desperately tries to make their missiles more effective and the British try just as desperately to develop countermeasures. While down south, Jon Hunt discovers what it’s really like to fly in combat. Eventually Marcel and Maria find themselves in the Islands just as the British are closing in. A rescue attempt to get them out is led by Jon which culminates in a desperate encounter in the mountains surrounding Port Stanley just as the final fight for the Islands takes place around them.
Reviews:
Jon Hunt is a crack Royal Navy Helicopter pilot, who volunteers for a secret mission to help destroy or sabotage the Argentinian Ship killer Exocet missiles, that could be used against the British fleet sailing to retake the Falkland Islands from the Argentine invaders! A cracking read full of action and adventure, introducing a great character in the form of Jon Hunt! Can't wait till the next book 10/10 a must have!
What a great read. I was only 9 at the time of the Falklands War, but have since read and studied all I can about it. A supreme moment for our military forces, and my heart goes out to all who were injured and to the families of those killed. This book, very much like the Sharpe novels, takes real events and places fictional characters in amongst them. A great piece of fiction and history.
I really enjoyed this book. The author uses his own experiences of flying a Lynx helicopter during the war to put an authenticity and colour that could not come from anywhere else. He takes a little known and unexplained fact about the war - the Exocets did not explode - and uses this as the main plot line. One has to wonder whether something like this really happened. He then adds in many stories from other sources, again not well known but all of which allow the reader to get an insight into what it must have been really like, both at sea and ashore in Stanley.
None of the Argentinian Exocet missiles fired during the Falklands war actually exploded. This is factually true and there has never been a satisfactory explanation.
This book, although a novel, is based on the personal experiences of the author, a Lynx helicopter pilot and many other true stories from the Falklands War that have never been fully told before.
So, how do you counter your own weapon system when it’s turned against you? The Falklands War posed just this problem.
January 1982 and the Exocet sea skimming missile is a killer. The British should know, they co-developed it with the French. However, the Argentinians have them as well. Marcel Bertrand a French missile expert, who has been made redundant, is recruited to help them.
2 April 1982, Argentina invades the Falklands. Soon after, Lieutenant Jon Hunt flies his Lynx helicopter from HMS Prometheus with a Special Forces team to covertly infiltrate the Argentinian Air base at Rio Grande. His mission is to persuade Marcel who has been kept in the dark about the invasion, to agree to work for them. Once Jon explains the truth about the invasion Marcel and his girlfriend Maria agree to help and manage to modify the missiles warheads with a software update so that they won’t explode.
As the war hots up, Argentina desperately tries to make their missiles more effective and the British try just as desperately to develop countermeasures. While down south, Jon Hunt discovers what it’s really like to fly in combat. Eventually Marcel and Maria find themselves in the Islands just as the British are closing in. A rescue attempt to get them out is led by Jon which culminates in a desperate encounter in the mountains surrounding Port Stanley just as the final fight for the Islands takes place around them.
Reviews:
Jon Hunt is a crack Royal Navy Helicopter pilot, who volunteers for a secret mission to help destroy or sabotage the Argentinian Ship killer Exocet missiles, that could be used against the British fleet sailing to retake the Falkland Islands from the Argentine invaders! A cracking read full of action and adventure, introducing a great character in the form of Jon Hunt! Can't wait till the next book 10/10 a must have!
What a great read. I was only 9 at the time of the Falklands War, but have since read and studied all I can about it. A supreme moment for our military forces, and my heart goes out to all who were injured and to the families of those killed. This book, very much like the Sharpe novels, takes real events and places fictional characters in amongst them. A great piece of fiction and history.
I really enjoyed this book. The author uses his own experiences of flying a Lynx helicopter during the war to put an authenticity and colour that could not come from anywhere else. He takes a little known and unexplained fact about the war - the Exocets did not explode - and uses this as the main plot line. One has to wonder whether something like this really happened. He then adds in many stories from other sources, again not well known but all of which allow the reader to get an insight into what it must have been really like, both at sea and ashore in Stanley.
