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In his foreword U.S. Army officer Coyle ( Team Yankee ) says that the Red Army treasures ''conformity and discipline'' while the U.S. ''places its trust in the ability of the individual soldier and his leaders.'' We are not surprised, therefore, when his thriller picks the winner of a two-month war between the superpowers in Iran. There is a little suspense about whether Iran, fighting both ''satans,'' will detonate an atomic bomb, and somewhat less about whether the U.S.S.R. will start chemical warfare. The narrative consists mainly of set pieces on back-and-forth desert fighting, flashing from one side to another and featuring some continuing characters. But all the characters are paper-thin and all sound equally earnest and boring. Interest is not sustained by the book's undeniable authenticity, which has all the style of a training manual. And confusion arrives with the authentic alphabet soup: lots of info about MRRs, RDEs, BDUs, etc. Coyle's prose is often clumsy, the chapter-head quotes (from Napoleon, Sherman et al.) are as pertinent as fortune cookies and the ending manages to be sentimental and ungrammatical at the same time.
 
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January 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B002BOPKX0Title: Sword Point
Author(s): Harold Coyle
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
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July 1991 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0671665537Title: Sword Point
Author(s): Harold Coyle
ISBN: 0-671-66553-7 / 978-0-671-66553-1 (USA edition)
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April 1989 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0670825700Title: Sword Point
Author(s): Harold Coyle
ISBN: 0-670-82570-0 / 978-0-670-82570-7 (USA, AU, or UK edition)
Publisher: Viking
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January 1988 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000HCVNBQTitle: SWORD POINT
Author(s): COYLE HAROLD
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
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January 1988 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B002ALQCHWTitle: Sword Point
Author(s): Harold Coyle
Publisher: NY Simon & Schuster 1988.
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Paperback Editions

July 1994 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0671852949Title: Sword Point
Author(s): Harold Coyle
ISBN: 0-671-85294-9 / 978-0-671-85294-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: Pocket Books
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January 1990 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B002CLCG3YTitle: Sword Point
Author(s): Harold Coyle
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January 1990 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0140117024Title: Sword Point
Author(s): Harold Coyle
ISBN: 0-14-011702-4 / 978-0-14-011702-8 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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1990 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0671737120Title: Sword Point
Author(s): Harold Coyle
ISBN: 0-671-73712-0 / 978-0-671-73712-2 (USA edition)
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January 1989 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000KK8K1QTitle: Sword Point
Author(s): Harold Coyle
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January 1988 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B00222U43WTitle: SWORD POINT: A NOVEL
Author(s): Harold Coyle
Publisher: Simon & Schuster [1988], New York
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April 1989 : Audio Cassette
Cover of ISBN: 0671674048Title: Sword Point T
Author(s): Coyle
ISBN: 0-671-67404-8 / 978-0-671-67404-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
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