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MWSA Book Review

Proximity: A Novel of the Navy's Elite Bomb Squad

Author: Proximity: A Novel of the Navy's Elite Bomb Squad

Publisher:  Xlibris

Reviewer: Rob Ballister--MWSA Board Member

If you see these guys running, try to keep up!

Author Stephen Phillips takes you on a wild ride with one of the Navy's elite Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) teams as they do their part in the Global War on Terror.  The main character, LT Jascinski, gave up a promising career as a surface warrior because he wanted to pursue the high-speed low drag world of Navy EOD.  In his first billet out of EOD school, he gets all he can handle as he and his team end up in the middle of a world-wide terrorist ring that may just have someone on the inside.  Who will have the steady hand, and who will end up as a "big pink mist?"

Phillips writes from experience, and obviously knows what he's talking about.  While the story is fiction, the author draws from his years as a Navy EOD Officer-in-Charge to develop the story and provide the technological balance all good military stories need in order to be believable.  He also does an excellent job of developing the personal relationships between the LT and his men, the LT and his Chief Petty Officers, and finally the LT and his wife.  The result is a fast moving, completely believable action story that's a great read for those who enjoy military fiction, especially Special Operations.

Highly recommended.  FIVE STARS!