MWSA Review
Gunner Shake Davis, U.S. Marine Corps strikes again—for the eighth time!

In Bangkok File, author Dale Dye’s hard-core, hard-as-nails, hard-to-kill Marine is back in action. The only thing “former” about this Marine, are his active-duty paychecks.

After a series of pirate attacks start making life terrible for commercial shipping in the Gulf of Thailand, Shake gathers up an eclectic, international team of fighters to help figure out what’s going on and then put a stop to the pirating.

Filled with action, the reader will struggle to keep up with all the action and special fighting forces’ lingo thrown at them. Keep your seat belts fastened; you’ll be off to see lots of exotic locales from the Texas Hill Country to the rough-and-tumble seas off the coasts of Thailand and Cambodia. Although Shake’s been here before—fighting a different, but equally tough opponent who’d like nothing better than arrange a body bag for Shake—there’re plenty of bullets flying and plans going astray.

The only question is, Will Shake really retire or will we soon find book nine in the series on our library bookshelves?

Review by John Cathcart (February 2020)

Author's Synopsis

He’s unplugged and living the dream at a new Texas Hill Country homestead, but Gunner Shake Davis never really expected that to last. When he gets a phone call asking him to undertake a lazy look-see mission to determine the root of at-sea oil rip offs in the Gulf of Thailand, Shake returns to some old haunts in Southeast Asia. It starts in Bangkok, moves to a sea cruise in a commandeered junk, and winds up on Koh Tang off the Cambodian coast. And that backwater little spit of sand haunts Shake’s memories from the days of the screwed-up Mayaguez rescue mission at the end of the Vietnam War. The bad guys on Koh Tang are oil pirates and just as deadly as the Khmer Rouge that nearly killed him back in 1975. A simple recon mission gets twisted, obscured, and altered—which brings Shake and his crew into a second Battle of Koh Tang Island.

ISBN/ASIN: 978-1944353247
Book Format(s): Soft cover, Kindle, ePub/iBook
Review Genre: Fiction—Mystery/Thriller
Number of Pages: 259