Author David Alexander brings his shock-and-awe writing style to the
pages of this no-holds-barred action thriller. The War Pigs of the
book's title are an elite special forces unit whose job is to accomplish
missions too dangerous and too impossible for other commando fighters
to handle.
Using realistic narrative and a bold storytelling
style that flexes its considerable muscle as it barrels along at
breakneck speed, War Pigs tells the story of theater warfare in a
battlefield that might be one of the next future flashpoints of global
conflict.
Here, the US military and its strategic partners
become embroiled in brutal fighting when ethnic rivalries, coupled with
the presence of reserves of strategic natural resources, erupt into
full-scale warfare that draws in the United States and threatens to
engulf the entire region.
In a tactical scenario that has become
the bane of Pentagon warplanners throughout US involvement in regional
theaters of war, powerful warlords in control of military forces have
spread havoc throughout the region as their armies have fought each
other and terrorized local populations with little or no control.
Yet
it's into this chaotic cauldron of war that America's elite
super-infantry force has been ordered to proceed where others have tried
and failed. This time the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command
wants to see results instead of high casualty figures. And to get
results it has ordered in a fighting force known to rush into the heat
of action where angels fear to tread.
The thriller gets down and
dirty with the gritty realities of combat right from the git-go and the
pace never slackens for a moment. It's clear from the outset that the
men of this fighting unit will live or die by virtue of their own combat
savvy, true grit and grim determination. If they survive to fight
again, it will be because they've prevailed over enemy forces that are
every bit as capable and every iota as determined to win as they
themselves are.
The War Pigs have been tasked to combat their
opposite numbers on the enemy's home territory and centers of military
power. They'll have to eat mucho mud, and dodge mucho bullets. They're
foul-mouthed and they're crude, but they know one thing, and that's how
to say "mission accomplished" at the end of the battle.
War Pigs.
For any other unit the name might be a slur. For these guys, it's a badge of honor.
