The Ambassador's Son | The Ambassador's Son (Josh Thurlow Series #2)

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	• The Ambassador's Son (Josh Thurlow Series #2) Homer Hickam St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2006 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Enjoyable Read - Suspension of Disbelief Required, However

I read and thoroughly enjoyed Hickman's previous Josh Thurlow book, "The Keeper's Son." (By all means, read it first.) I was looking forward to the sequel. This one is not quite as good as the first book, but enough action to keep the pages turning. If possible, I'd give it 4 1/2 stars.

I do have to say that I did have to suspend disbelief on several occasions as Hickman tried too hard to work two famous real life characters into the book. We spend a lot of time with John F. Kennedy, who joins Thurlow's crew after PT-109 is sunk. And Richard Nixon makes a couple of appearances as well. It's true that they both served in the Armed Forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II, but the story would have worked just as well without them. If you can overlook this stretch, and liked "The Keeper's Son," this book will not disappoint.

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The Ambassador's Son

Liked this book best of all - full of interesting facts and surprises - unsual point of flow with the birds - in the series - great fun to learn somethings not widely know about our Presidents.

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Beware of picking up any of the Josh Thurlow series books. You won't be able to put them down once you start. The action forces you from one chapter to the next. The thourough historical background is also an outstanding feature at least for me. As I would get to the end of the book, I felt a little pang at my heart saying "Oh no, it's almost over, what will I do then?"

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Hickam followup features famous sons.

Hickam is a great story teller, and he seems to get better as he goes. This is the second in the "Son" series, pulling together famous Sons Jack Kennedy and David Roosevelt Armistead (along with "Nick" Nixon and Jim Michener) in the continuation of his ongoing saga of his Outer Banks corp of misfits.

The story rockets along, as characters fly and boat around the Solomon Islands battling "Jap", bugs, weather, cannibals, and each other. While Hickam provides two brief historical notes at the beginning of the book and a historical recap and bibliography at the end, some of the goings-on seem too fantastic to be true.

But still very well done, with only the believability factor knocking this down below the top rung rating.

The third installment moves on to the island of Tarawa: The Far Reaches (Josh Thurlow Series #1)

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More! More!

Absolute page turner, both in the historical speculation and the twisting and turning adventure plot.

It is 1943, and the struggle against Japan rages across the steaming, jungle-choked Solomon Islands. As the fate of the South Pacific hangs precariously in the balance, Lieutenant David Armistead?a Marine Corps hero and cousin of President Franklin Roosevelt?is rumored to have deserted, perhaps to the enemy. For Coast Guard Commander Josh Thurlow, the news is particularly bad. He befriended Armistead while fighting by his side. Now he has orders straight from the top to bring him back or kill him in the attempt.

Pressed into the mission is an officer who couldn?t be less like Josh: a shiftless PT boat skipper named John F. Kennedy. To find their elusive quarry, they and Josh?s crew of misfits must face dangers as exotic as the lush battleground that surrounds them, including implacable Japanese, an Australian coastwatcher-turned-warlord, and a beautiful seductress who will either steal Josh?s heart?or have his head...

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