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When he left for Mogadishu last December, Army SPC Glenn Follett imagined he would be going there as part of a salvation army: soldiers distributing food to starving children. Instead, he spent much of his four-month tour of duty fighting scorpions and ducking fire from the gunmen of local warlords. "In the first two weeks I was in Somalia, I saw more combat than during six months in Saudi ((Arabia))," says Follett, a recently discharged Gulf War veteran who is now back in Watertown, New York. "As soon as we stepped off the plane, we were getting shot...
...Christmas packages to American POWS in North Vietnam), Perot has never endured the media scrutiny that comes with a modern presidential campaign. Up to now, he has largely sculpted his own Horatio-Alger-hero-with-a-heart-of-gold image -- most notably by fostering On Wings of Eagles, Ken Follett's breathless account of a Perot-sponsored 1979 private commando raid to free two employees trapped in an Iranian jail at the height of the Khomeini revolution. A longtime aide questions whether Perot can handle media coverage that he can't control: "He's used to talking to business reporters...
Unfortunately, Follett's characters tend to be idealized types or expressions of certain feelings rather than fleshed-out, believable personalities. For example, Eddie Deakin, the Clipper's good-hearted engineer, is introduced thus...
...Follett's treatment of the women in Night Over Water is slightly more annoying. Not only do all the females suffer from massive indecision, but their most frequent response to stressful situations is to burst out crying. While the men are preoccupied with the war in Europe, the women spend lengthy passages worrying about their love lives...
...fast-paced novel rife with action and intrigue, most readers will forgive Follett his contrivances and lapses in characterization. So this author does not exactly re-invent the genre within which he works. One does not expect Raymond Chandler when picking up Follett. And anyway, Chandler's plots are a whole lot harder to follow...