{"id":15816,"date":"2016-11-02T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15816"},"modified":"2016-11-01T16:07:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T21:07:50","slug":"book-report-orbiting-omega-by-don-pendleton-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/02\/book-report-orbiting-omega-by-don-pendleton-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Orbiting Omega<\/i> by &#8220;Don Pendleton&#8221; (1984)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0373610661\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0373610661&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/orbitingomega.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0373610661\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0373610661&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">This book<\/a> has Mack Bolan teaming up with a KGB agent against his will as they try to find a scientist who has figured out a way to hack the US and USSR orbital nuclear weapons platforms.  He, the scientist, demonstrates the satellite capture by firing and detonating nuclear weapons above Washington D.C. and Moscow&#8211;too high for an EMP effect, but enough to light the night sky as a warning.<\/p>\n<p>As Bolan and the KGB agent close in, the scientist is betrayed by his head of security&#8211;a Japanese-American with a cadre of fellow Japanese-American National Guard-trained soldiers.  This guy doesn&#8217;t want world peace&#8211;as the scientist did&#8211;he just wants money.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, another subpar entry in the series.  And another book with nuclear weapons exploding in orbit (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/book-report-lightning-fall-by-bill-quick-2014\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>Lightning Fall<\/em><\/a>.  Personally, I&#8217;m starting to get concerned about this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0373610661&#038;asins=0373610661&#038;linkId=776208fb8c3f3d8cd97799f43a3890c0&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true&#038;price_color=&#038;title_color=&#038;bg_color=FFFFFF\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book has Mack Bolan teaming up with a KGB agent against his will as they try to find a scientist who has figured out a way to hack the US and USSR orbital nuclear weapons platforms. He, the scientist, demonstrates the satellite capture by firing and detonating nuclear weapons above Washington D.C. and Moscow&#8211;too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15818,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions\/15818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}