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Plot Summary of Plan of Attack
"A colonel in the U.S. army, Patrick Mclanahan is flying his remote controlled plans over Russia and they see the Ruskis have assembled mobile nuclear wepons that are set up along the Afghanistan border. He decides to attack from a distant, any how he ends up killing hundreds of Russian soliders. The Russian president, Anatoliy Gryzlov decided that the Americans will pay for that. Mclanahan has a hunch that the Russians will attack, he uses our satalites to see that the Russians are moving their tankers and long range bombers to the east coast of siberia. The president does not believe what Mclanahan thinks is true. By now Patrick gets court marshaled. The Russians attack with every nuclear wepon in their arsenal and devestate the United States. Torn the president dosn't want to start nuclear war, but he wants to retaliate. Mclanahan is reinstated and sent to retaliate. He leads a covert team over into Russia and they take control of a base and refuel, and they leave. Just after they left Gryzlov had a nuclear bomb dropped on the base. After that Gryzlov's assistant decides he has had enough and he calls the Americans and tells then the location of the Russian President. Patrick Mclanahan bombs him and he dies and the conflict is over.
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keith misustin, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of Plan of Attack
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%




Tone of story - very upbeat
Time/era of story: - 19th century
War Thriller Yes
Armed Forces: - Army
Specific to - near future war
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - pilot, airforce
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - a significant amount
Ethnicity/Race - White/American
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Genius (really!)
Physique - very athletic

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Profession/status: - dictator
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some
Motive of antagonist - revenge
The antagonists are: - Russians
How sensitive is this character? - mean, arrogant
Sense of humor - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Setting
United States Yes
Asia/Pacific Yes
Asian country: - Russia
Misc setting - fort/military installation

Style
Part of a series? Yes
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey descriptions deaths/dead bodies
How many deaths? - hundreds or more
A lot of techno jargon? Yes
Kind of jargon? - military technology
Unusual forms of death - exploded into bits
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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