What a truly intriguing, fascinating, fun read.
When the U.S. Embassy in Tehran is taken over and the location of a nuclear bomb hidden in Tehran is revealed, a specialized group called Snake Eater is tasked with retrieving and recovering the bomb before America’s opponents can get to it and launch an attack against the U.S.
This back has faction written all over it, where I had trouble knowing when or where the facts of actual operational training and combat ended and where the fiction began. The anticipation and all-out action builds throughout the story, culminating in a guns-blazing firefight. It was a well-crafted thriller written by someone who obviously knows what they’re writing about. I found the book somewhat separated into the training aspect, followed by the execution of it in the second half. This was a new type of writing style that I haven’t really seen before, and I found it very intriguing.
Appointment in Tehran is the second novel in the Snake Eater Chronicles. I went back and read his first installment in the series, A Question of Time, before reading this one. I did find it helped inform the story a little more, but it is definitely not a requirement to enjoy this novel. Stejskal’s experience in writing non-fiction novels definitely shone through in this realistic, pulse-pounding thriller that I believe fans of political thrillers will love.
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