Field Piece, The Complete Series
Book Details
Author(s)
Daniel Ferry
Publisher
D & N Associates, Ltd.
ISBN / ASIN
B00EB3F2RS
ISBN-13
978B00EB3F2R7
Sales Rank
#615,360
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Being a loose cannon can sometimes be a good thing -- right.
In Book I of this series, a CIA agent is murdered in Tehran, and the White House wants someone on the scene to determine what the agent discovered that led to his death, and who is responsible. The agent is supposed to remain low-profile -- just get in, find out what the hell is going on, and get out. No women, no trouble, no killing.
U.S. State Department agent Steve Walker, who spent his childhood in Tehran, never thought he would return to Iran, but his boss selects Walker as the obvious candidate for the assignment. So Walker travels to Iran to do the job on an Irish passport. However, he has his own agenda -- to kill his half-Iranian brother, Khalil Azrak, who was responsible for the death of their parents, and who now commands the dreaded Komiteh revolutionary police.
Walker's investigation leads him to the perilous streets of Tehran, where he expects to find danger, but he's not expecting to find love in the form of a beautiful, rich Persian femme fatale with a penchant for risky dealings.
In Book II of this series, Walker returns to Iran on another assignment, but this time he's supposed to make a difference. His boss says Walker has a tendency to overachieve and is sometimes a loose cannon. Truer words were never spoken . . .
In the aftermath of the Cold War, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia maintains its military prowess by hiring out Russian Army units as mercenaries to shore up the shaky government in Azerbaijan. The Russian Army troops are initially successful, but they make the disastrous mistake of using poison gas on a small village harboring Muslim dissidents. The lone survivor of that attack, who lost his son to the poison gas, vows vengeance against the Russians -- and he knows Russian strategy and tactics because he was a Russian officer in the failed deployment to Afghanistan.
Within a few months a groundswell of Muslim freedom fighters under a fierce new leader challenges the Russian Army troops -- and the freedom fighters, apparently backed by Iran, wield black market high-tech American weapons. Russian cargo planes, fighter-bombers, and helicopter gunships begin plummeting from the sky, victim to black market American Stinger missiles.
Enter American agent Steve Walker, sent back to Iran to staunch the flow of black market American weapons. Walker failed to achieve his personal goal on his first assignment -- to kill his half-Iranian brother, Khalil Azrak, who was responsible for the death of their parents. Azrak now commands the Azeri secret police. However, stopping the weapons traffic and killing Azrak aren't going to be easy, especially when Walker tangles with that beautiful femme fatale who just might be a little too involved in the whole mess.
FIELD PIECE is simultaneously a military thriller, a spy novel, and the story of the forbidden love between an American agent and a Persian woman in the Iran of the 1990's. The author meticulously researched every facet of the Iranian and Azeri settings, the military matériel, terrorism training, and conditions and attitudes in Iran and Azerbaijan in the 1990's. Best of all, his expatriate Russian and Iranian friends contributed street smart details to enrich the character and atmosphere of the story.
Being a loose cannon can sometimes be a good thing -- right.
In Book I of this series, a CIA agent is murdered in Tehran, and the White House wants someone on the scene to determine what the agent discovered that led to his death, and who is responsible. The agent is supposed to remain low-profile -- just get in, find out what the hell is going on, and get out. No women, no trouble, no killing.
U.S. State Department agent Steve Walker, who spent his childhood in Tehran, never thought he would return to Iran, but his boss selects Walker as the obvious candidate for the assignment. So Walker travels to Iran to do the job on an Irish passport. However, he has his own agenda -- to kill his half-Iranian brother, Khalil Azrak, who was responsible for the death of their parents, and who now commands the dreaded Komiteh revolutionary police.
Walker's investigation leads him to the perilous streets of Tehran, where he expects to find danger, but he's not expecting to find love in the form of a beautiful, rich Persian femme fatale with a penchant for risky dealings.
In Book II of this series, Walker returns to Iran on another assignment, but this time he's supposed to make a difference. His boss says Walker has a tendency to overachieve and is sometimes a loose cannon. Truer words were never spoken . . .
In the aftermath of the Cold War, following the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia maintains its military prowess by hiring out Russian Army units as mercenaries to shore up the shaky government in Azerbaijan. The Russian Army troops are initially successful, but they make the disastrous mistake of using poison gas on a small village harboring Muslim dissidents. The lone survivor of that attack, who lost his son to the poison gas, vows vengeance against the Russians -- and he knows Russian strategy and tactics because he was a Russian officer in the failed deployment to Afghanistan.
Within a few months a groundswell of Muslim freedom fighters under a fierce new leader challenges the Russian Army troops -- and the freedom fighters, apparently backed by Iran, wield black market high-tech American weapons. Russian cargo planes, fighter-bombers, and helicopter gunships begin plummeting from the sky, victim to black market American Stinger missiles.
Enter American agent Steve Walker, sent back to Iran to staunch the flow of black market American weapons. Walker failed to achieve his personal goal on his first assignment -- to kill his half-Iranian brother, Khalil Azrak, who was responsible for the death of their parents. Azrak now commands the Azeri secret police. However, stopping the weapons traffic and killing Azrak aren't going to be easy, especially when Walker tangles with that beautiful femme fatale who just might be a little too involved in the whole mess.
FIELD PIECE is simultaneously a military thriller, a spy novel, and the story of the forbidden love between an American agent and a Persian woman in the Iran of the 1990's. The author meticulously researched every facet of the Iranian and Azeri settings, the military matériel, terrorism training, and conditions and attitudes in Iran and Azerbaijan in the 1990's. Best of all, his expatriate Russian and Iranian friends contributed street smart details to enrich the character and atmosphere of the story.
