Lash-Up, by Larry Bond
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Lash-Up, by Larry Bond
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New York Times bestselling author Larry Bond thrills again in Lash-Up, an explosive new novel. In a bid to dominate Asia and the western Pacific, China provokes a military crisis with the United States and then starts shooting down GPS satellites. America has only a short amount of time to devise some way of protecting its remaining satellites or China will gain an enormous advantage in the coming conflict. The only way the satellites can be protected is from orbit, so an armed spacecraft must be quickly designed, built, and launched to fight on this new battlefield.
A team of soldier-scientists must construct a craft capable of knocking space weapons out of the sky. The fate of the United States rests on the shoulders of these determined people.
Lash-Up, by Larry Bond- Amazon Sales Rank: #111406 in Books
- Brand: Bond, Larry
- Published on: 2015-05-05
- Released on: 2015-05-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.47" h x 1.52" w x 6.44" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 416 pages
Review
"Bond proves once again why he ranks as one of today's top writers of military action thrillers."―Publishers Weekly
About the Author
LARRY BOND is the author of numerous New York Times bestselling thrillers, including Cold Choices, Vortex, Cauldron, and The Enemy Within. A former Naval Intelligence officer, warfare analyst, and anti-submarine technology expert, he makes his home in Springfield, Virginia.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. An Important 'What If' Story By Ronald Moeller Larry Bond has returned to the types of stories that first brought him to my attention. His early novels expertly detailed scenarios like a war in Southern Africa (Vortex) or his masterful story of a new French empire in Europe (Cauldron) and who can forget his first novel dealing with a second Korean war (Red Phoenix). Lash-Up returns to these roots as it explores a Chinese plot to solidify its hegemony over the South China Sea region but negating America's technological advantage. His story is both imaginative and terrifying, highlighting our vulnerabilities and over-reliance and faith in out technological prowess. The scenes he crafts showing the disbelief and utter lack of comprehension of what the Chinese were doing is a realistic portrayal of a military leadership more interested in careerism than in combating the threat. If you''re setting foot in a US military operations center, whether it's a major headquarters or a tactical site in the mountains of Afghanistan, for the first time, you'd be amazed at the flat screens, computer terminals, and data streams. This single vulnerable aspect of our current military culture is creatively explored in this story. The other aspect, the person far down the chain of command who clearly sees the problem, comes up with a workable solution, but is blocked by his seniors since it doesn't fit into their per-conceived paradigm , is also indicative of today's large defense bureaucracy. The book would've received five stars without hesitation except for two glaring editing mistakes - the use of C-141 aircraft (an aircraft that has been out of our inventory since the early 90's) and a timeline mix-up (the story is set in 2017 and there is a passage referring to the 2016 election coming up in three years). nevertheless, I would recommend this book; especially to the US military and defense bureaucrats.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Bond is back - with some qualifiers. Sorta spoilers below. By Al Swanson I love Larry Bond. Some of his earlier stuff is just my favorite military fiction, period. In the past, lots of military hardware details, good action, decent characters. Characters are not Bond's strong suite, but they are solid. This one was lighter on the military hardware part. Some of that is to be expected given the subject, but it seemed he could have beefed that up. I've not read any of his serial books - I simply HATE serials. I've read some, but only when they were of specified length from the beginning. The Hobbit/Rings series, for example. But I don't want to go too far off topic.Bond reduced the hardware specific parts (maybe other readers found that tedious or boring, I didn't), increased the human factor and ended it up the same - the good guys win. This time, the bad guys weren't really given much of a go once the good guys were on the board, though. This is true - that the good guys always trounce the bad guys - in all his books. So no new stuff there. That's fine - who wants the Chinese to win in a worldwide fight anyway? (except perhaps the Chinese) I'm cool with that, but it would have been a bit more realistic to have some modifiers (I'm not going to be specific here since I'm trying to avoid spoilers) that would provide some give and take and add some drama to the battles.Still, I'll read anything he puts out - serials excepted - that keeps to his roots. This did, more or less, and I enjoyed it. Really, isn't that what fiction is all about anyway? Enjoyment? Good, fast read.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. For a book about war in space, there is just not very much war in space By Liam H Dooley I had really wanted to *love* this book, because the concept is great. An Chinese ASAT that blows up primarily GPS satellites shot from a mountain gun, and the US racing to deal with the new threat with a novel, high-speed no holds program to counter it. The US tries to convert a mothballed spaceship that had never flown - the VentureStar - into a flying space fighter / bomber. I had never heard of the VentureStar, so I learned a bit about it here. So the premise is not bad, but the story? Well.... it needed revision.First, I wondered why ballistic missile with conventional warheads wouldn't be used. Since bombs dropped from space were used, I don't see why conventional ICBMs are any worse. in principle conventional ICBMs could be deployed a lot quicker. Why not just have tried them and have them intercepted?But the real problem with this book is its overall plotting and focus. The "space battle" is the last two chapters, with most of the book not even being about the development of the spaceship, but about the interagency disputes. Talk about dull. There were a few battlescenes at sea and in the air - but these were absolutely irrelevant to the storyline and the spaceship. Just tossed in their for some random action.If I were to rewrite this, I would have skipped 90% of the interagency arguments, sped up the development, skipped the random sea and land battles, and focused on the space battle. It's a great idea. Why not have a few missions? They get progressively harder, they have problems with equipment, maybe some of the crew die? Maybe have a space shuttle or two sent up first?For a book about war in space, there is just not very much war in space.Liam Dooleywww.liamhdooley.com
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