Captain Jeff Struecker and Alton Gansky in their new book, “Certain Jeopardy” Book One in the Special Ops series published by B&H Publishing Group gives us another mission with Sergeant Eric Moyer and his Special Ops team.From the back cover: Your safety rests in the hands of six men……they are Special Ops and their mission has just been upgraded from difficult to impossible. A detect-and-observe mission revealed the unexpected-and the terrifying. The discovery has forced a change in the mission-a change they call Certain Jeopardy. Failure to act endangers millions. To save the countless, Eric Moyer’s team may need to end the life of one innocent man–a fact that haunts the lone Christian on the team.“Certain Jeopardy” takes the reader on a secret military mission to foreign soil. Six men, different in many ways, leave family behind to do heroic acts no one will ever hear about. At home, family members face challenges, fears and a life-and-death decision-all without the strength and guidance of their husbands and fathers. Physical battles without, spiritual battles within. Failure means catastropheIn this book we are introduced to the six men of Special Ops and their families. This is important as these six men form their own family to rely upon one another in order to survive the mission. They also have their own families which have to face their own problems without these men. Military procedural thriller doesn’t really do this book justice. While it most certainly is let me assure you it is much much more. Let me put it this way, get ready for a nail-biting, page-turning thriller. Sergeant Moyer and the team are in deadly danger as they are racing around the globe trying to thwart the transport of a nuclear weapons expert from a Venezuela training camp to Iran.. Captain Jeff Struecker and Alton Gansky not only know how Special Ops forces work they know how to craft suspense. So much is going on within the pages of “Certain Jeopardy” and the characters are so real that you care for all of them and want them to succeed, well at least the good guys. There is more to the story that I didn’t mention but you didn’t really expect me to tell you everything did you? Otherwise you might not want to read the book and I wouldn’t want you to pass up an opportunity for a terrific read. Captain Jeff Struecker and Alton Gansky have written a current spy story with an old-time flair. There are great themes in this book: family, duty, country and how God figures in everything. “Certain Jeopardy” is a book that you will want to start early otherwise you will be up very late as you will want to finish it. I highly recommend it and am looking forward to more from this talented duo.Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from B&H Publishing Group. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.” When Iran and Venezuela put their heads together, the results are not good for the United States. Throw in the kidnapping of a nuclear physicist's family, and things go from bad to worse. Eric Moyer's Army Ranger team is sent in to recon the situation. These six men represent the highest of Army ideals . . . but tragedy on the home front and a secret kept by a member of the team threaten to unravel even the best laid plans. Before long, things are spiraling toward certain jeopardy.Certain Jeopardy, co-written by (now retired) Army Captain, Jeff Struecker, and prolific author, Alton Gansky, is an excellent example of military suspense. These men weave a story full of ripped-from-the-headlines realism and ever-growing stakes. Their characters make you proud of the U.S. military. Though they write from a Christian perspective, the story avoids getting bogged down in preachy subtext. Family values, love of country, brotherhood, protection of the innocent . . . all these things can be found without the foul language and innuendo that plagues most novels in this genre. Yet Struecker and Gansky don't shy away from the harsh realities our Special Forces soldiers encounter.I recommend Certain Jeopardy to all fans of military suspense.
What do You think about Certain Jeopardy (2009)?
well done, Jeff & Al. honored to work with you both.
—bill
Quick read, my heart was racing with the action.
—ali
