The Crisis: A Dan Lenson Novel (Dan Lenson Novels)
by David Poyer
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Author: David PoyerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-11-10
ISBN: 0312544391
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
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Book Review: Lenson stumbles into the war of the future amid heat, dust and chaos
Summary: 5 Stars
Dan Lenson helps coordinate the US intervention in a fictional Horn of Africa nation collapsing, a la Somalia, into famine and anarchy.
Poyer has a fine ear for the shifting and maneuvering of generals, policy makers, politicians and bureaucrats. To his credit, he finds no easy answers here, as there aren't any. He sees the action through multiple actors - Lenson doesn't see frontline action in this one - who come from various perspectives, including three orphaned siblings, pursuing very different paths of survival after being separated. The eldest has become a charismatic Islamicist warlord who gains control of much of the country.
SEAL Teddy Oberg is violent and sort of a jerk, but his dedication and pure joy in fighting motivate him as his team is sent to liberate ships, free hostages and take down warlords.
Naval CIS agent Aisha Ar-Rahim, caught in country when the collapse begins, finds herself in a strange position. Black, Muslim and Arabic-speaking, she is still seen as an oddity by locals because she's a woman in a position of authority; and meanwhile her Muslim religion and garb leave fellow Americans unclear where her sympathies lie as howling mobs assault the US embassy.
Marine Lance Corporal Caxi Spayer, providing the grunt's-eye view here, befriends the youngest of the three orphans.
Irish researcher Grainne O'Shea - distrustful of Americans - goes through harrowing adventures when cut off deep in the interior. She guards a newly discovered secret she fears getting into the wrong (translation: American or corporate) hands: a huge layer of artesian water that could give the parched country a future.
Overwhelming all of them is the heat and stink of African chaos - you want to take a shower every 30 pages - as a US force tries to distribute relief supplies, secure the capital, and create a new government, meanwhile dealing with venal warlords as well as Washington policymakers who expect them to succeed with only two thousand troops. (The SEAL: "If it didn't suck, they wouldn't send us.")
Citizens live in greatest fear of their own neighbors. Poyer's depictions of violence and depravity, particularly against children, is relentless and disturbing.
Lenson initially comes to the Mideast researching the warfighting techniques of the future, and inadvertantly stumbles into it: small groups of elite fighters like Oberg winning tactical victories with high-tech weapons and support, in the strategic quagmire of countries too far gone to stabilize. Great powers help but don't fully commit, meanwhile seeking the quickest exit and willing to settle for the next dictator as long as he's their boy.
Summary of The Crisis: A Dan Lenson Novel (Dan Lenson Novels)
Naval Commander Dan Lenson and his Tactical Analysis Group specialize in out of the box military assign ments. Comprising sailors, Navy SEALS, and civilians, the group investigates and defuses naval threats around the world.
Dan and his team are assigned to ?transform? a patrol craft squadron in the Red Sea into a leaner, meaner Navy. Mean - while, in northern Africa, drought and famine have brought a nation to the brink of civil war. When the United States decides on intervention to stabilize the region, Dan and his team become the point people for the humanitarian mission. When a charismatic young jihadist coordinates a ferocious insur gency against the U.S. presence, Dan and his team must kill him in order to save thousands of lives.
With exciting action, espionage, and exotic locales, The Crisis asks bigger questions about our obligations to relieve the suffering of other countries, the risk of American lives to rescue foreigners, and the role of democratic government in nations with no central leadership.
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