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Review by Dylan921 -- East Wind, 2nd edition
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Reading East Wind is a very eye opening book. When dealing with the Middle East, Israel and America you have to have your facts straight, besides writing a fictional book. Jack Winnick does it all. This is the 1st book in a series and can be read as a stand alone novel.
When a bomb goes off in Marina del Rey harbor in Southern California killing thousands of people, we are introduced to Uri Levin a member of Metsada, special operations arm of Mossad and Lara Edmond. Lara is with the FBI anti-terrorist training analysis program. This is not any ordinary bomb, but a fission bomb. Also known as an atom bomb.
Uri is on a mission in Lebanon and finds a piece of paper with “Opera” written on it. He had no idea what this might mean, but he knows it’s important.
Uri and Lara are assigned the task of finding out how this bomb came to California. It goes back to 1999 when Hezbollah, a terrorist organization was recruiting young, very intelligent boys to finish school and go to America to finish college. They were sent on a scholarship to the top engineering schools, Stanford, MIT, UCLA and so on. While in America their only way to communicate was through the web.
Lara is an analyst and her profession is deciphering codes. She and her team have been trying to decipher codes in Arabic or Farsi, and getting no place. When “Opera” is given to her, she realizes it’s a new software package that allows simple construction and access to web pages. And it’s all in English.
There are so many characters in this novel that you must take very good notes and write down dates. This is very important because you keep going back and forth.
Walid Jahangiri is from Pakistan and was recruited by Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. After finishing college he gets his masters degree in computer sciences. He settles in Los Angeles with his American girlfriend Sarah. Walid has been chosen to carry out the mission in California. However, something has happened to Walid. He has become more familiar with western cultures and now sees both sides of the truth. Will he carry out the instructions regarding the atom bomb that Hossein Souriani made for the harbor?
Hossein Souriani left Iran in 1996 with a BS degree in mechanical engineering. He then received an advanced degree in nuclear engineering and settled in Alabama to do his planning. He is Iranian, but the people around him think he is Vietnamese. The free library taught him how to make an atom bomb. He went to coded websites when he needed ingredients for his bomb.
This novel is filled with anticipation and tensions build up for the last several chapters that you are literally on the edge of your seat. Jack Winnick does an excellent job combining all characters, all different background stories and plots together, that you might say to yourself “Is this non-fiction?” I really enjoy his genre of writing.
I thought that Uri’s mission in Lebanon was a little graphic for some people. That didn’t bother me considering the circumstances. No offensive language and one erotic scene that is not erotic in the sense of the word. I give this novel 4 out of 4 stars. I am looking forward to reading his next book.
I would like to quote Jack Winnick: “An East Wind. In my country, it is usually hot and dry, but always troublesome.”
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East Wind, 2nd edition
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Reading East Wind is a very eye opening book. When dealing with the Middle East, Israel and America you have to have your facts straight, besides writing a fictional book. Jack Winnick does it all. This is the 1st book in a series and can be read as a stand alone novel.
When a bomb goes off in Marina del Rey harbor in Southern California killing thousands of people, we are introduced to Uri Levin a member of Metsada, special operations arm of Mossad and Lara Edmond. Lara is with the FBI anti-terrorist training analysis program. This is not any ordinary bomb, but a fission bomb. Also known as an atom bomb.
Uri is on a mission in Lebanon and finds a piece of paper with “Opera” written on it. He had no idea what this might mean, but he knows it’s important.
Uri and Lara are assigned the task of finding out how this bomb came to California. It goes back to 1999 when Hezbollah, a terrorist organization was recruiting young, very intelligent boys to finish school and go to America to finish college. They were sent on a scholarship to the top engineering schools, Stanford, MIT, UCLA and so on. While in America their only way to communicate was through the web.
Lara is an analyst and her profession is deciphering codes. She and her team have been trying to decipher codes in Arabic or Farsi, and getting no place. When “Opera” is given to her, she realizes it’s a new software package that allows simple construction and access to web pages. And it’s all in English.
There are so many characters in this novel that you must take very good notes and write down dates. This is very important because you keep going back and forth.
Walid Jahangiri is from Pakistan and was recruited by Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah. After finishing college he gets his masters degree in computer sciences. He settles in Los Angeles with his American girlfriend Sarah. Walid has been chosen to carry out the mission in California. However, something has happened to Walid. He has become more familiar with western cultures and now sees both sides of the truth. Will he carry out the instructions regarding the atom bomb that Hossein Souriani made for the harbor?
Hossein Souriani left Iran in 1996 with a BS degree in mechanical engineering. He then received an advanced degree in nuclear engineering and settled in Alabama to do his planning. He is Iranian, but the people around him think he is Vietnamese. The free library taught him how to make an atom bomb. He went to coded websites when he needed ingredients for his bomb.
This novel is filled with anticipation and tensions build up for the last several chapters that you are literally on the edge of your seat. Jack Winnick does an excellent job combining all characters, all different background stories and plots together, that you might say to yourself “Is this non-fiction?” I really enjoy his genre of writing.
I thought that Uri’s mission in Lebanon was a little graphic for some people. That didn’t bother me considering the circumstances. No offensive language and one erotic scene that is not erotic in the sense of the word. I give this novel 4 out of 4 stars. I am looking forward to reading his next book.
I would like to quote Jack Winnick: “An East Wind. In my country, it is usually hot and dry, but always troublesome.”
******
East Wind, 2nd edition
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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