Shoot Down

Duncan Hunter Thriller, Book 2

By: Mark A. Hewitt

Narrated by: Kevin Groat

Shortly after takeoff, a jumbo jet explodes over the waters of Long Island. Witnesses claim the aircraft was shot down by a surface-to-air missile; the government insists a mechanical malfunction brought down the airplane. An old CIA file is uncovered which details the President was warned-to preclude commercial airliners from being shot out of the sky either pay a ransom or suffer the consequences.

Just as the Agency identifies the shadowy man responsible for the shoot-down of the airliner, the Libyan dictator Gaddafi is overthrown, sparking a race between the CIA and terrorist networks to win the ultimate terrorist prize-hundreds of man-portable, shoulder-launched, anti-aircraft missiles.

Duncan Hunter and his top-secret airplane once again team up with an expert crew to find the anti-aircraft missiles ahead of the al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood and kill the man who shoots down airliners for profit.

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Critic reviews

“A great technothriller with political intrigue, part of a series, but standalone so you don't have to have read every preceding volume to follow the action.” –Pat Ingram Reviews, on Shoot Down

fair story, good action scenes, poor naration

too many acronyms and long winded explanations of protagonist self examination, narration was somewhat garbled and run together words, stilted rapid fire speech without appropriate inflection

If you a MAGA cultist, you will think this is a magnificent story. So politically biased that I got tired of reading it.

Not all military folks are MAGA radicalized ultra-conservatives. The military is actually comprised of a true spectrum of men and women. This is especially true of faculty members in various positions within the war college. What could have been an interesting read has been morphed into a right-wing political rant. I’m truly disappointed at having invested my time and Audible credit on this book.