The Unit: Lock and Load (Unit (Signet))
by Patrick Andrews
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Author: Patrick AndrewsEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-04-07
ISBN: 0451226534
Number of pages: 290
Publisher: Signet
Book Reviews of The Unit: Lock and Load (Unit (Signet))
Book Review: Wouldn't recommend it to fans of the series
Summary: 2 Stars
The Unit, a secret task force inside the US military, is sent to Israel to bring a defector from an Islamic terrorist group back to the US. Unknown to the team, they are being set up by members of the CIA who dislike the competition. They promise Israel's secret service that the Unit will give the defector to them and the misunderstanding leads to a shootout and the Unit having to go on the run through Israel and the Gaza Strip. A prime target for several terrorist groups as well as the Israelis, the Unit's chances of making it out of Israel alive and with their reputation intact are slim.
This book is okay if you don't know the series it's based on and just want a good military story. But then that's not really the audience this book is meant for. As a fan of the series I was very disappointed for the following reasons:
- The characters are in many instances not behaving as they do in the series. Jonas, the team leader, keeps nagging, trying to spread panic and making his team nervous. Carlito is on watch, knowing how dangerous the situation is, and spends the time flirting and kissing a woman they took along. You get the idea.
- I would estimate that more than half of the book isn't even about the Unit but about the characters the author invented himself. Since he doesn't seem to have bothered to become well aquainted with the series I'm not surprised. I must say that those characters are actually well-developed, but then I'm buying a Unit book for the Unit and would like to see a lot more of them than is the case here.
- The women of the Unit don't play a role at all even though the series episodes take their lives as seriously as those of the men.
- Several ideas were simply taken from series episodes, in particular the CIA plot and Carlito's affair with a woman from Israel (though she was a Jew, not a Muslim). That's not very interesting.
All in all, this is not a good tie-in to the series and I wouldn't recommend buying it.
Summary of The Unit: Lock and Load (Unit (Signet))
Bashir, a Palestinian defector, claims he has information for Homeland Security. All he needs is a covert American team to smuggle him out of the Middle East. But Israel?s top- secret Mossad needs information from Bashir too. The situation is the perfect opportunity for rogue elements of the CIA to set a trap for the Unit. They?ll send Sergeant Major Jonas Blane?s team and Mosaad agents to collect Bashir at the same time, to force a stand-off. The result: the end of the elite counter-terrorist team.Action & Adventure Books
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