

Deep Black
Author: Stephen Coonts, Jim DeFelice
Series: Deep Black Series #1
Narrator: J. Charles
Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/16/2017
Categories: Fiction, Military Fiction
Author: Stephen Coonts, Jim DeFelice
Series: Deep Black Series #1
Narrator: J. Charles
Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 05/16/2017
Categories: Fiction, Military Fiction
This biography could be entitled, West Virginia Boy Becomes a Very Successful Author....... but that would be too obvious. Author, Stephen Coonts was born and raised in Buchanan, West Virginia, a small town of 6,000. He led the typical life of any boy growing up in the 50's and 60's.
He was born in 1946, and ended his childhood by graduating from West Virginia University with a degree in political science. As happens with many poli-sci grads, he had a law degree in mind, but first he served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and began flight training in Pensacola, Florida.
Coonts received his wings after completion of fleet replacement training in the A-6 Intruder aircraft. After serving in the Vietnam War as an attack fighter, he served as a flight instructor, and did a tour of duty on the USS Nimitz. Upon leaving the Navy, he entered the University of Colorado School of Law. After receiving his law degree, he moved back to West Virginia to practice for a couple of years. But, his career took him back to Colorado where he specialized in oil and gas law.
Finally, in 1986, he published his first novel, Flight of the Intruder, which became a huge success, being on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover. Later, a movie by the same title was produced based on his novel, and was released nationally in 1991. All of his books have been published in several different countries.
Currently, Coonts lives in Colorado with his third wife, Deborah, He continues to write novels from Colorado.
I felt frustrated by this book. It has an interesting plot, and I like two of the five main characters. The female lead spoiled things for me. The author seemed to use excessive profanity and rudeness to establish how tough she is is instead of showing us. Her male counterparts didn't behave this wa......more
Deep Black by Stephen Coonts Coonts addresses the surveillance expertise of NSA and his fictitious Desk 3 in this book. The ability of the US government to impact another nation's computers and infrastructure is hypothesized. Of course, I think this is all speculative but how would one know unless pe......more
The novel has a lot of action and thrilling passages. William Rubens, the head of the NSA, is one of the main characters. Christine Collins, CIA head, wants Rubens' job, and they don't get along. Charles Dean, an ex-Marine sniper in Vietnam, is a contract worker for the NSA, sent to Siberia to inves......more
I never know how possible scenarios & storylines are. But - knowing most of the books I read have had parts of them come true years after they were written tells me all is possible. This book was written and released in 2011. It is now 2023. We still have the same countries, people, religions & politic......more