Pirate Alley Book Report

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We all very much aware that travels aren't exactly sheltered nowadays. In any case managing darkened passages and filthy toilets can gauge up to what the 850 travelers of the Sultan of the Seas experience in Stephen Coonts' most recent novel, "Pirate Alley." They're caught by Somali pirates who undermine to murder everyone on board in the event that they're not repaid 200 American dollars. What's more to show they mean business, the pirates off a couple of the Sultan's passengers.

As frightful as the pirates may be, they aren't the main danger. A terrorist group plans to kill the travelers regardless of the possibility that the payment is adjusted, then take the funds from the Somalis. So Coonts' returning legends, CIA division head Jake
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A couple of crewmen could have destroyed the pirates, but U.S. law averts cruise ships from being armed. And then there are the law makers, whose temerity as well as attempts to preserve political hides keep nearby naval ships from coming to the rescue. A few Navy Seals manage to creep aboard and create chaos, but ultimately, threats by the pirates to kill vacationers make the surrender ineluctably foreordained.

Obviously, the entire quarrel would have been sidestepped in the event that it hadn't been for the misusing in Washington. A few crew members could have decimated the pirates, yet U.S. law does not allow cruise ships from being armed. And after that there are the law makers, whose nerve and in addition endeavors to safeguard political conceals keep adjacent maritime boats from taking on the hero's role. A couple of Navy Seals figure out how to crawl on board and make disarray, yet in any case, dangers by the pirates to murder vacationers make the surrender ineluctably predestined.

So the boat is towed off to the Somali coast, and the prisoners are bound in a foul, rodent pervaded stronghold. That is the place Carmellini and a cast of Seals and CIA agents come

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