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| The Ambassador's Son (Josh Thurlow Novels) | 
| Author: Homer Hickam
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 327788
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.3
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
ASIN: B000KHXC7G
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 The Ambassador's Son November 29, 2008
Liked this book best of all - full of interesting facts and surprises - unsual point of flow with the birds - in the series - great fun to learn somethings not widely know about our Presidents.
Hickam followup features famous sons. May 11, 2008
Hickam is a great story teller, and he seems to get better as he goes. This is the second in the "Son" series, pulling together famous Sons Jack Kennedy and David Roosevelt Armistead (along with "Nick" Nixon and Jim Michener) in the continuation of his ongoing saga of his Outer Banks corp of misfits.
The story rockets along, as characters fly and boat around the Solomon Islands battling "Jap", bugs, weather, cannibals, and each other. While Hickam provides two brief historical notes at the beginning of the book and a historical recap and bibliography at the end, some of the goings-on seem too fantastic to be true.
But still very well done, with only the believability factor knocking this down below the top rung rating.
The third installment moves on to the island of Tarawa: The Far Reaches (Josh Thurlow Series #1)
More! More! February 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolute page turner, both in the historical speculation and the twisting and turning adventure plot.
Enjoyable Read - Suspension of Disbelief Required, However December 19, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I read and thoroughly enjoyed Hickman's previous Josh Thurlow book, "The Keeper's Son." (By all means, read it first.) I was looking forward to the sequel. This one is not quite as good as the first book, but enough action to keep the pages turning. If possible, I'd give it 4 1/2 stars.
I do have to say that I did have to suspend disbelief on several occasions as Hickman tried too hard to work two famous real life characters into the book. We spend a lot of time with John F. Kennedy, who joins Thurlow's crew after PT-109 is sunk. And Richard Nixon makes a couple of appearances as well. It's true that they both served in the Armed Forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II, but the story would have worked just as well without them. If you can overlook this stretch, and liked "The Keeper's Son," this book will not disappoint.
Stayed up all night reading August 11, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Our reading group picked The Ambassador's Son and nearly everybody really liked it, although there was some griping before they read it. This is a great adventure novel with some thoughtful insights on the human condition. Considering Hickam's other books, we should not have been surprised at its quality but we were. Most of us thought oh no, it's a war novel and we didn't want to read that. But the characters are great, there's lots of romance in it, and Hickam's research shines through. I think I came to know the real Jack Kennedy as he was as a young man through this novel. Sometimes fiction reveals the truth better than non! Of course, I enjoyed The Keeper's Son so following Josh Thurlow on his next adventure was great. And Penelope, Josh's new girl, is a true delight. A real woman we all enjoyed talking about! This is a well-written novel, ten times better than most of the best sellers out there, and we thanked the person in our group for picking it, making a lot of us read something we might otherwise have missed.
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