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Review by TanyaKay -- The Date Farm by Jack Winnick
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The Date Farm written by Jack Winnick
Reviewed by Tanya Smith
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. The only reason it doesn’t rate the fourth star, is due to the very graphic violence and gore. However, I really enjoyed reading this book.
It is the first book I have reviewed for the online book club. It jumped straight into the action from the very first sentence and didn’t stop until the very last word. I was slightly confused, though, because there was no mention of the date farm, or any date farm until the second half of the book. This book also jumps from location to location and character to character, as it tells the stories of the heroes and villains in a parallel line throughout the book. I was rooting for the hero character all through the book and never once rooted for the evildoers. This book was never dull and kept me involved completely, I even stayed up late reading it because I didn’t want to miss a moment.
This book should not be read by children or any victim of a mass shooting, as that’s the main premise of the book. There are mass shootings and multiple suicide bombings throughout the book. There are no typos that I noticed while reading and I didn’t notice any profanity throughout the book. This book was very well edited. While there was no profanity and there were also no erotic sex scenes, writer Jack Winnick was very graphic with the violence and gore in the book.
This book is about a young couple that previously worked for the F.B.I. and C.I.A and now work for our government and for Mossad. The Husband is actually Israeli, but the wife grew up on a farm here in America. They were just partners for a long time, but fell in love and got married. They were visiting her parents on the farm when they are called in for a horrible case that was on the news. Her parents know some of what they do for a living, but not the dirty details. They go in to the local F.B.I. office, as they are also part of a Homeland Security task force. The criminals have done a mass shooting at a local mall, wounding many and killing more, then killing themselves after yelling something in what survivors called Arabic.
While our young couple is investigating the first scene, a few things come to light about who they were working for. The writer tells us that they are working for someone the couple tangled with in their past and while he was biding his time, he formulated an even more horrible plan than the things he’s done before. The writer tells us that there are followers of this madman placed in America and awaiting his orders with rabid anticipation of killing as many Americans as possible. Some of these men are impatient and want to move things along without doing any of the planning.
Soon, our young couple and their team members are involved in a large operation involving the Federal Reserve and the Chase Manhattan Bank, as they’ve been informed that a group of the bad guys is already inside and trying to get the massive amount of gold stored there out. The jihadists are in two teams, one in each building. They have knocked out all the communication in the area including radios, cell phones and a satellite. The couple and their teammates were able to find a hardwired radio system so that they could talk to each other, but not let the bad guys hear so they all went after the bad guys, thinking the bad guys were after the gold, which they were not. In an unprecedented turn of events, the good guys were ambushed by the bad guys and the young wife was taken hostage and flown by helicopter to a container ship from Iran. The husband was also taken but managed to escape his captors.
The wife escapes her captors as well, but it was little more difficult, and the jihadists tried to take out her rescuers at the same time, but failed and only killed themselves in the end. The young couple and their teammates later learn what the jihadists were actually after, which was a rare metal called rhenium. This metal is only found in China and is used on our stealth planes to outrun and outfly any other country’s defenses, including Iran’s. They wanted this metal so they could use it on their own planes and keep us from making any more planes with it.
The young couple thought they were done with their mission, as only their nemesis and two other men got away, but it was soon discovered that they had gotten away with all the metal they had stolen. The young couple was then infiltrated into the date farm by a seal team to work there and see what they could find out about where the metal was taken and why. Without revealing too much, there was a betrayal by someone they trusted, the rescue underwent some hardships but it all worked out in the end.
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The Date Farm
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The Date Farm written by Jack Winnick
Reviewed by Tanya Smith
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. The only reason it doesn’t rate the fourth star, is due to the very graphic violence and gore. However, I really enjoyed reading this book.
It is the first book I have reviewed for the online book club. It jumped straight into the action from the very first sentence and didn’t stop until the very last word. I was slightly confused, though, because there was no mention of the date farm, or any date farm until the second half of the book. This book also jumps from location to location and character to character, as it tells the stories of the heroes and villains in a parallel line throughout the book. I was rooting for the hero character all through the book and never once rooted for the evildoers. This book was never dull and kept me involved completely, I even stayed up late reading it because I didn’t want to miss a moment.
This book should not be read by children or any victim of a mass shooting, as that’s the main premise of the book. There are mass shootings and multiple suicide bombings throughout the book. There are no typos that I noticed while reading and I didn’t notice any profanity throughout the book. This book was very well edited. While there was no profanity and there were also no erotic sex scenes, writer Jack Winnick was very graphic with the violence and gore in the book.
This book is about a young couple that previously worked for the F.B.I. and C.I.A and now work for our government and for Mossad. The Husband is actually Israeli, but the wife grew up on a farm here in America. They were just partners for a long time, but fell in love and got married. They were visiting her parents on the farm when they are called in for a horrible case that was on the news. Her parents know some of what they do for a living, but not the dirty details. They go in to the local F.B.I. office, as they are also part of a Homeland Security task force. The criminals have done a mass shooting at a local mall, wounding many and killing more, then killing themselves after yelling something in what survivors called Arabic.
While our young couple is investigating the first scene, a few things come to light about who they were working for. The writer tells us that they are working for someone the couple tangled with in their past and while he was biding his time, he formulated an even more horrible plan than the things he’s done before. The writer tells us that there are followers of this madman placed in America and awaiting his orders with rabid anticipation of killing as many Americans as possible. Some of these men are impatient and want to move things along without doing any of the planning.
Soon, our young couple and their team members are involved in a large operation involving the Federal Reserve and the Chase Manhattan Bank, as they’ve been informed that a group of the bad guys is already inside and trying to get the massive amount of gold stored there out. The jihadists are in two teams, one in each building. They have knocked out all the communication in the area including radios, cell phones and a satellite. The couple and their teammates were able to find a hardwired radio system so that they could talk to each other, but not let the bad guys hear so they all went after the bad guys, thinking the bad guys were after the gold, which they were not. In an unprecedented turn of events, the good guys were ambushed by the bad guys and the young wife was taken hostage and flown by helicopter to a container ship from Iran. The husband was also taken but managed to escape his captors.
The wife escapes her captors as well, but it was little more difficult, and the jihadists tried to take out her rescuers at the same time, but failed and only killed themselves in the end. The young couple and their teammates later learn what the jihadists were actually after, which was a rare metal called rhenium. This metal is only found in China and is used on our stealth planes to outrun and outfly any other country’s defenses, including Iran’s. They wanted this metal so they could use it on their own planes and keep us from making any more planes with it.
The young couple thought they were done with their mission, as only their nemesis and two other men got away, but it was soon discovered that they had gotten away with all the metal they had stolen. The young couple was then infiltrated into the date farm by a seal team to work there and see what they could find out about where the metal was taken and why. Without revealing too much, there was a betrayal by someone they trusted, the rescue underwent some hardships but it all worked out in the end.
******
The Date Farm
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