Frederick Forsyth
Hardcover | Pages: 397 pages Rating: 3.67 | 7385 Users | 560 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Cobra |
| Author | : | Frederick Forsyth |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 397 pages |
| Published | : | 2010 by Bantam Press |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Crime. Action |
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The cocaine industry is worth billions of dollars a year to the drug cartels who spread their evil seed across Western society. Its usage causes incalculable misery, poverty and death. Slowly, gradually, inexorably it is spreading...One man, Paul Devereaux, intellectual, dedicated, utterly ruthless and ex-CIA special ops, is given what seems like an impossible task: stop the drug barons, whatever it costs. At his disposal, anything he wants - men, resources, money. He must assemble a team equal to the lawless men who control this deadly trade. And he must not cease until he has completed his mission.
Up to now the drug trade have been accustomed to the forces of global law and order attempting to prevent them plying their business. And up to now those forces have played by the rules. But that is about to change. The rules no longer apply - and a dirty war is about to get a whole lot dirtier...
From jungle airstrips in Brazil to the mangrove swamps of Guinea-Bissau, from the barrios of Bogota to the boardrooms of Washington, The Cobra peels back the terrifying reality of the global cocaine business as it's never been seen before. It is an extraordinarily breathtaking and contemporary thriller which demonstrates the master storyteller, Frederick Forsyth, at the very top of his game.
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| Original Title: | The Cobra |
| ISBN: | 0593064216 (ISBN13: 9780593064214) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.67 From 7385 Users | 560 ReviewsAssessment Out Of Books The Cobra
For about 70% of the book, all I knew about the story was that the Columbian cartel was being run as a corporation, pure cocaine is "cut" 6 to 7 times before being used, the profits are astronomical (ASTRONOMICAL!), there are 2-3 routes cocaine takes into US and continental Europe, and the people involved are very violent. The reason why I knew that? Because that information was repeated every 10 pages or so.All in all, the story feels repetitive. And the bigger problem is that the story of aThe story was very detail orientated, nearly to the point of boredom. The idea was a good one, but I didn't care for the execution. So many things were said several times that I became very annoyed with them. I personally didn't care for this story and wouldn't recommend it.
The premise of Cobra is that the president of the United States has decided that he wants to eliminate Cocaine trade in the United States. The laughable part about that is that the president is described as a black man whose father is from Kenya and his mother is a white woman from Kansas. HmmI wonder who they could be referring to. The laughable part is that this is the premise despite the fact that the Obama administration is incredibly soft on drug crimes. At any rate, he assigns the task of
Shocked by the death of a young man through a drug overdose, the president of the US determines to do something to eradicate the scourge of cocaine. He calls together a high-powered group and asks what can be done. A radical and relentless operative, Paul Devereaux, former leader of Special Ops of the CIA is called in and tasked with the destruction of the cartels. This man, the Cobra, demands time and resources and ultimate authority to do whatever it takes. He is given these powers,
Awful. I only read it because I had nothing else and I was duly disappointed.My guess is that Mr Forsyth has had a few drinks one night and told his agreeable old chums "Bloody governments, no backbone! If they wanted to close the drug trade, they could do it! I could do it! Give me some guns and a budget of a couple of billion! I'd kill the lot of 'em!"And so he's written up his idea into a page-turning thriller to show how he would do it. In summary, a rogue "Cobra" leading an unfettered
Started well, despite the constant lecturing tone lurking under the surface (don't do drugs kids, drugs are baaad!!!) Then at 7% enters Chuck Norris/Gary Stu/Paul Devereaux to singlehandedly beat down da eeevvvvlll terrorists/drug dealers/communists/atheists/you name it. We are treated to a lengthy and rather tiring infodump of his childhood/youth - superrich, nearly aristocratic, at the top of his class/learns languages on a yearly basis (I'm not exaggerating here), singlehandedly brought down
GoodThe cocaine recipe - Loved that partHow the cocaine industry worksThe torture methodsThe BadCharacter developmentStory developmentLose endsFlat languageOverall - Not a very good bookThere, I said it all.
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