Zero Red

Book 2 in the Chopper Ops series has plenty of non-stop action pretty much from the start. Just a few days before Christmas, our crew gets a notice from higher up, that a Russian carrier is carrying over 1000 megatons of nuclear warheads! And it has been taking over by some mercenary group. They are dropped in the North Atlantic, and are to assist the Russian Spetsnaz group to get onboard the carrier and stop this ship from heading toward the Zero Red line, which is an imaginary boundary setup during the Cold War by the U.S., which states that any Russian nuclear vessel crossing this line will be fired upon and destroyed by the U.S.Our boys are promised to be home for Christmas, but things turn bloody pretty fast as the Spetsnaz get wiped out while infiltrating the ship. It is up to the crew of Chopper Ops to prevent a nuclear holocaust, while fighting two other groups onboard! Meanwhile, the biggest storm of the century is hitting the area with snow, rain, sleet, and wind.Lots of pretty far fetched stuff in this novel regarding military operations, similar to Maloney's Wingman series. But it is fiction, so it should not be too in line with reality. Just a fun read.

Chopper Ops 2, Zero Red, is a very high intensity, high casulty, and high tension action packed novel. With three different fighting forces aboard one russian aircraft carrier, racing toward America carring enough nukes to move the earth off it axis, things get very hairy at the White House. Maloney does a great job detailing and suspending elements of the plot to make for a dramatic and suprising ending.

Great action. Numerous plot twists kept me guessing and on-edge. A terrific read for all action-adventure fans.

I liked it. Lots of action. Cool helicopter battles. Mystery at the end. As good as Wingman. Almost as good as War Heaven.