Under Siege, Stephen Coonts
Under Siege, Stephen Coonts
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Under Siege

Author: Stephen Coonts

Narrator: Benjamin L. Darcie

Unabridged: 17 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2014

Synopsis

A fighter pilot races to stop a terrorist plot in Washington, DC, in this thriller by a New York Times–bestselling author hailed as “brilliant” by Tom Clancy.When the psychotic Colombian drug lord Chano Aldana is extradited to the United States for trial, he brings his army of vicious mercenaries with him. And as Aldana’s hit men target the President of the United States, the capital is plunged into chaos that only veteran fighter pilot Jake Grafton can stop. With the help of an investigative journalist and an undercover agent, Grafton must find the deadly assassins before they can strike again. But time is running out, and the future of the country hangs in the balance.

About Stephen Coonts

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by John

There's a lot going on in this book. This book is from the 90s, when the War On Drugs was really a thing. It's very much a book of its time. The US military helped to extradite a Colombian drug lord (Chano Aldana), and they're putting him on trial in Washington DC. Aldana has a whole army of narcote......more

Goodreads review by Dave

I liked the plot and found the characters interesting. I might have given this another star except for one problem: The author (or the editor? the publisher?) made a choice to let multiple threads run on, one after another, without any kind of break. I found this very confusing, as I had to read on......more

Goodreads review by Seth

A story I liked so much, that I read it twice. This book ponders the difficult question of what would happen if America arrested a columbian cartel leader inside a hostile nation and brought him back to America for trial. The drug lord has millions of dollars at his disposal and it only requires abo......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

There are times when I really enjoy Coonts. However, I have been somewhat selective, despite liking the characters in the Jake Grafton books. I have avoided Under Siege for many years because it didn't sound interesting. I wish I had continued to avoid it. This book is a lame mash-up of political thr......more

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