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Ascent from Darkness
- Hardcover
- Author: Steven E. Wilson
- Publisher: H-G Books
- Release Date: September 2007
- ISBN-10: 0972948015
- ISBN-13: 9780972948012
- List Price: $24.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryAn international thriller of espionage, war, and love, interwoven with profound, world-changing events. Reluctant CIA operative Stone Waverly travels a shadowy trail from Odessa to Cologne to Amsterdam to Damascus, as agents with terror links evade an international dragnet. Everyone is suspect and nothing is as it seems, in a land where Islamic extremists determined to plunge civilization into darkness battle with special forces, Kurds, and Arabs intent on restoring hope to a world gone mad. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Made me feel proud!!
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A very patriotic read in a time when so many books beat the country down. I was sorry to see it end. You will love it!
Unbelievable
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Swimming upstream here compared with all the other glowing reviews, but I found this book disappointing. Good plot development is repeatedly undermined when difficult situations are resolved in a few paragraphs by unconvincing, fortuitous, turns of events, usually with a happy ending leaving no inconvenient loose ends. Characters declare undying love for each other having spent only a few hours together, if that. All-in-all an unbelievable storyline with irrational character behaviour. Not without its problems either, but "Winter in Kandahar" is a better book.
Ascent From Darkness review
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Contemporary, exciting and educational, this one is worth reading. Wilson is a polished writer who has done his research and comes up with a compelling story.
Thrilling and compelling
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I am so thrilled that Stone Waverly is back!
I do not like to read books about war, but a friend convinced me to read Steve Wilson's first book, Winter in Kandahar, and I couldn't put the book down. There began my love of Stone Waverly.
So naturally, between Steve Wilson's compelling storytelling and style of writing, I was thrilled to learn of his second book, Ascent From Darkness. I was equally as thrilled to learn that Stone Waverly continues on his journey.
I have not changed my mind and decided to read books on war, but Ascent from Darkness is a book about mysterious happenings wrapped in the most mysterious of all happenings - love.
May Mr. Wilson keep me anxiously turning the pages of Stone Waverly's life adventures for years to come!
P.S. I expect some smart movie producer to purchase the movie rights to both Winter In Kandahar and Ascent From Darkness and turn them into the blockbusters they so deserve to be!
Action adventure thriller and romance too
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We just read this book for my book club after one of the member's husbands, a Special Forces Major, recommended it. I was reluctant to read a book with soldiers on the cover, but read it because it was a finalist in the Indie Book Awards in Action adventure. I was delighted with the romance aspect of the novel. You'll love it!
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