A review by chutten
Final Flight by Stephen Coonts
1.0
jingoism: patriotism in the form of aggressive foreign policy.
Wow, was everyone in 1988 scared of terrorists, thinking the US armed forces were the only thing stopping the evil, yet bumbling, communists from taking over the world?
As a historical artefact, this novel is second-to-none. Nowhere else have I seen such internalized fear and aggression. Nowhere else have the French been cowardly and childishly impressed by United States military hardware, or bisexual nymphomaniacs practising BDSM; nowhere else have the Russians been spies or incompetent (or both); nowhere else has every Arab been religious and fanatical...
And the Americans... there's a token drunk, and a token bureaucrat. The elected officials just get in the way of the real men, who Get Things Done...
If only this were satire.
Wow, was everyone in 1988 scared of terrorists, thinking the US armed forces were the only thing stopping the evil, yet bumbling, communists from taking over the world?
As a historical artefact, this novel is second-to-none. Nowhere else have I seen such internalized fear and aggression. Nowhere else have the French been cowardly and childishly impressed by United States military hardware, or bisexual nymphomaniacs practising BDSM; nowhere else have the Russians been spies or incompetent (or both); nowhere else has every Arab been religious and fanatical...
And the Americans... there's a token drunk, and a token bureaucrat. The elected officials just get in the way of the real men, who Get Things Done...
If only this were satire.