Big Apple Takedown
by Rudy Josephs
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December 2001: Vince McMahon steps out of a snowy night into a diner in upstate New York for a meeting with old friend Phil Thomson, now a highly placed government official. Thomson has a strange proposition: creating a new covert black-ops group using the Superstars of World Wrestling Entertainment. The WWE's talented men and women are perfect. Highly skilled athletes with the ideal cover, they travel all across the country and the globe; no one would find it unusual to find them in a town show more one day and gone the next. The government would train and support the wrestlers in every way possible except one: no one must know the truth. March 2006: The Superstars have been handed their latest assignment -- take down a commercial-grade methyl-amphetamine plant that is bankrolling terrorist activities in Europe. Their mission seems simple and straightforward, until a member of their team is taken prisoner. Now all that they've worked so hard for is in jeopardy, and one of their own might be killed... show lessTags
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Picked this up at a discount book place a while ago and finally got to read it. It's dross.
I spent most of the book wondering if there would have been any difference in the story if they were a ragtag group of fresh recruits from spy school instead of wrestlers I mean apart from the risk of being recognised by the general public and having to complete missions within three days, which I would have thought would have been reasons not to get them to work as spies. Really if this book were not released by WWE not much of the story would be different.
By the second last chapter though when John Cena, who is about to drop on to a goon whispers to himself "You can't see me" I had to facepalm.
Worse still when Austin is driving a car with show more Torrie, Batista and Eddie.... "Can I get a Hell Yeah?" he asks his passengers.. who reply by shouting "Hell Yeah!" because I'm sure they totally would in real life.
What's rather odd is that Booker T's picture is on the back of the book and he doesn't appear in the book at all... very strange.
Yeah, nah. show less
I spent most of the book wondering if there would have been any difference in the story if they were a ragtag group of fresh recruits from spy school instead of wrestlers I mean apart from the risk of being recognised by the general public and having to complete missions within three days, which I would have thought would have been reasons not to get them to work as spies. Really if this book were not released by WWE not much of the story would be different.
By the second last chapter though when John Cena, who is about to drop on to a goon whispers to himself "You can't see me" I had to facepalm.
Worse still when Austin is driving a car with show more Torrie, Batista and Eddie.... "Can I get a Hell Yeah?" he asks his passengers.. who reply by shouting "Hell Yeah!" because I'm sure they totally would in real life.
What's rather odd is that Booker T's picture is on the back of the book and he doesn't appear in the book at all... very strange.
Yeah, nah. show less
Surprisingly good and eerily believable
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- Big Apple Takedown
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