Black Ops: The Gate, Bob Mayer, Who Dares Wins, 2010, 0984257527, 9780984257522, 327 pages. NY Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Bob Mayer Over four million books sold. Translated into over a dozen languages. Reference Mayer s Thrillers Mayer had me hooked from the very first page. Stephen Coonts Exciting and authentic. Don t miss this one W.E.B. Griffen Fascinating, imaginative and nerve-wracking. Kirkus Reviews A pulsing technothriller. A nailbiter in the best tradition of adventure fiction. Publishers Weekly. What if the Japanese succeeded in their atomic bomb program in World War II? And what if the legacy of that program has sat in a submarine at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge for all the decades since then? In Manchuria in 1945 a German U-Boat delivers the dying Reich s processed uranium. As Russian forces close in on the infamous Unit 731 Concentration Camp, the Japanese load one of the two bombs they ve developed on a submarine bound for the United States. They detonate the other to destroy all evidence. Present day United States. Lake, a covert operative for the United States government, is on the trail of rogue militia terrorists. He begins to learn that various factions are all searching for something in the San Francisco area. Something powerful. Something that was lost over sixty years ago, but still can be a powerful weapon in the wrong hands. Battling the Japanese Yakuza, North Korean agents, home-grown terrorists, and betrayal in his own organization, Lake must uncover the history of this threat in order to prevent disaster..

The Novel Writer's Toolkit , Bob Mayer, Jan 15, 2005, Language Arts & Disciplines, 240 pages. A guide for aspiring writers covers a broad range of topics, including setting a writing schedule, turning ideas into saleable stories, conducting accurate research, finding an ....

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Dragon Sim-13 , Bob Mayer, Dec 1, 1999, Fiction, 296 pages. Military simulations occur every day without any worry or danger, right? Well, not exactly. In order to test the U.S. Special Operations Command's ability to respond swiftly .... Chasing the Ghost , Bob Mayer, 2010, , 262 pages. NY Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Bob Mayer Over four million books sold. Translated into over a dozen languages. Reference Mayer s Thrillers Mayer ....

Lost Girls , Robert Doherty, Aug 21, 2007, Fiction, 304 pages. Selected to take over for the dying creator of a covert organization policing the CIA, FBI, and other intelligence agencies, Hannah Masterson dispatches operatives Jack Gant ....

Don't Look Down , , May 1, 2007, Fiction, 384 pages. Recruited to finish a four-day action movie shoot, commercial director Lucy Armstrong finds the job challenged by egomaniacal actors, her stunt director ex-husband, and a would ....

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West Point Graduate, former Green Beret and NY Times bestselling author Bob Mayer has had over 50 books published. He has sold over five million books, and is in demand as a team-building, life-changing, and leadership speaker and consultant for his Who Dares Wins concept. He's been on bestseller lists in thriller, , suspense, action, war, and is the only male author on the Romance Writers of America Honor Roll. Born in the Bronx, Bob attended West Point and earned a BA in psychology with honors and then served as an Infantry platoon leader, a battalion scout platoon leader, and a brigade recon platoon leader in the 1st Cavalry Division. He joined Special Forces and commanded a Green Beret A Team. He served as the operations officer for 2nd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and with Special Operations Command (Special Projects) in Hawaii. Later he taught at the Special Forces Qualification Course at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, the course which trains new Green Berets. He lived in Korea where he earned a Black Belt in Martial Arts. He's earned a Masters Degree in Education.

Bob Mayer knows how to write an action thriller that's compulsive to read. We start in 1945 Korea as the Russians are invading. Then we cut to 1997 San Francisco as Lake, a coldly dispassionate government operative, infiltrates a domestic terrorist group. The plot is feasible in the context of the book, and the players never act out of character. All the narrative lines come together in a satisfying conclusion.

I can't believe how much I LOVED this! I never read these kinds of books. I had wandered over to Bob Mayer's website to look at info on an upcoming book he wrote with Jenny Crusie, and noticed a link to the first chapter of The Gate. I almost didn't even look at it, but I was mildly curious... and once I started I was totally hooked.

I don't have a Kindle (yet!), but the pdf is available on the website for $2.99 also. I ordered it at 11 PM, and thank god it didn't show up in my inbox until after I'd gone to bed, or I would have stayed up all night to finish it. As it was, I read the whole thing the next day. I kept waiting for a place where the action slowed down to stop and get some things done, but the action never got slow! There was no time in the whole book where I wasn't on the edge of my seat, impatient to know what happened next.

Also, I loved that it's one of those books where everything makes sense, so that even though the plot is complex everything is logical and completely believable within the context of the story. No silly James Bond stuff, either, with five hundred guys shooting at him but he still manages to escape without sullying his suit. Real hero, real heroics. Nice.

The only thing keeping this review from 5 stars is the female character, who was so boring that by halfway through I was really hoping to see her get shot- it would have been the most interesting thing she did in the book. Fortunately, she's only one very tiny piece of a spellbinding story, and certainly didn't keep me from sitting glued to my computer, reading this from beginning to end with barely a pause.

This was the first book I've read by Bob Mayer. While the plot was good and the story did move right along, I was totally distracted by the spelling and punctuation errors, and the insertion of 'words from nowhere'. I found myself going back to a previous page to try and make sense of what I had just read. And it seemed the farther into the story I got, the more errors I found. This was a perfect example of poor editing.

I have read the reviews of the other three readers and just don't relate. The story line was OK, the thing that bugged me the most were the errors in the phrasing of the kindle version. Nishin's name used in place of Arak's. common words left out or missed all together. It just hollered "I don't don't care about details". Maybe my version just missed the proof reader. If it were just a few it wouldn't have bugged me so much. I read from one to two books a week and most of them are black op's. I just don't think Bob Mayer measures up to the likes of A.J. Tata or some of the other writers out there. I took the better part of a month to read this book because it just wasn't grabbing me. After finishing the book and looking back at the story line it was O.K. but it could have been so much better. Had he just invested in a proof reader. So, Bob I hope you take the time to read these. You teach at the UDub? I just don't get it. I have a daughter that went there I thought she got a good education. Oh well!

It plays out more like a grade B Asian movie with subtitles. No passion, not even greed as a catalyst for the actions of the characters. There was no suspense at all even when lake is trapped underwater you are never thinking he might die. And really who wears a wet suit under their clothes ready to rip off and hoe scuba diving!

This is my first Bob Mayer book. The brief description really intrigued me. The plot seemed interesting, but the overall presentation seemed to lack enthusiasm. A little more development of the main character would have made a big difference. The prose seemed short and choppy and some of the situations seemed to stretch believability.

Based on the way this was written-- I'm not sure that I would read another of Mayer's books. Since he's sold millions- one wonders if this Kindle edition had different editors. I was given a complimentary copy of this book to review. ( and you can tell from my comments that I received no other compensation)

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