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Homefront (Phil Broker Book 6) Kindle Edition

by Chuck Logan (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The daughter of ex-cop Phil Broker andex-army major/anti-terrorist operative Nina Pryce, Kit Brokeris no ordinary eight-year-old. She has seen more -- and survived more -- than most grown-ups. And now she has inadvertently invited a nightmare into the lives of those she loves.

Phil Broker and his family moved to tiny Glacier Falls, Minnesota, to heal from the psychological wounds they received while helping to avert an inhuman act of terror. But young Kit chose the wrong adversary when she triumphed over local schoolyard bully Teddy Klumpe -- for the boy's disreputable clan does unholy business from the darkest shadows of their small town . . . and they do not forgive. What begins as a minor feud between neighbors quickly escalates into a major offensive of intimidation, destruction, fear . . . and death. And the worst is yet to come -- because terror has come home.

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Nina Pryce, one of a select few women attached to the Army's elite Delta Force, is on an extended medical leave, recovering from a firefight with a terrorist that claimed the lives of two teammates and left her badly injured. While her body has begun to heal, her psychic wounds are still raw; unable to care for her daughter, repair the damage to her marriage, or face the fact that her military career is over, she and her family take refuge in a remote Minnesota town. But trouble seems to follow in her wake, and what begins as a schoolyard fight between her daughter and a bullying classmate soon escalates into a terrifying standoff with a clan of backwoods methamphetamine "cookers" and a hitman bent on revenge against Nina's husband Phil Broker, a former undercover cop. Logan expertly balances the tough and the tender, as Broker attempts to nurse his wife back to health, protect eight-year-old Kit from the effects of her mother's post-traumatic depression, and guard those he loves from the legacy of his own violent past. Logan's solid pacing, strong narrative drive, and expert rendering of two complex characters whose unusual relationship is as fascinting as they are make this sixth title in an excellent series a standout guaranteed to keep the reader's attention riveted until the last page. --Jane Adams

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U.S. Army Maj. Nina Pryce and ex-undercover detective Phil Broker return from Logan's After the Rain in this follow-up thriller. After Pryce endures a debilitating psychological and physical breakdown from a nasty tangle with a psychopath, the estranged spouses reunite. Eager for a fresh start, Broker, Pryce and plucky young daughter Karson ("Kit") move from St. Paul to bucolic, frosty Glacier Falls, Minn., home to howling wolves and an elementary school mixed in with "all the special-ed students in the county." When Kit gives playground bully Teddy—scion of the town's notoriously disruptive, methamphetamine-cooking Klumpe family—a black eye, a blood feud is ignited that accelerates with increasing menace. A slashed tire, a stolen cat and a housebreak all lead up to Broker being outed as a former cop—the very same cop who was involved in the death of Jojo, the son of Danny Turrie, Klumpe compadre and imprisoned murderer. Revenge plots boil as Turrie looks for a way to get at Broker—and his family. Logan is terrific on the particular ex-army, ex-cop tension between Pryce and Broker, and gives his bleak rural setting real menace. With a special low "summer price," Logan's latest should easily cool numerous beachgoers with icy thrills.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000FCK98Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins e-books; Reprint edition (October 13, 2009)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 13, 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1133 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0062330578
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Chuck Logan is an author of crime drama and veteran of the Vietnam War, who lives with his wife and daughter in Stillwater, Minnesota.

He is best known for his series of novels featuring the character Phil Broker, an ex-Minnesota police officer. Logan's novels include Hunter's Moon, Absolute Zero, Vapor Trail, Homefront, and After the Rain. And now Homefront is a film.

Homefront is an action-thriller directed by Gary Fleder. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Chuck Logan and was adapted into a screenplay by Sylvester Stallone. It stars Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder and Kate Bosworth. Filming began on 1 October 2012 in New Orleans. The film is set to be released nationwide in theaters on November 27, 2013.[1] The film was originally planned to be released in 2014. In July 2013, the MPAA gave the film an R rating for strong violence, pervasive language, drug content and brief sexuality.

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Phillip Tomasso III
5.0 out of 5 stars Had a knot in my gut the entire time I was reading!!!
Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2017
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I did not realize Homefront by Chuck Logan was what they based the movie Homefront (staring Jason Statham and James Franco). I remember really enjoying the movie. I generally don't read a book After seeing a movie. I prefer to read a book prior to the film. But my deal was to read all the Phil Broker books. So I decided I would still read the novel. And man, am I glad that I did.

Nina Pryce is a mess. PTSD,  Her shoulder is shot. Her career with the Army as a Major is all but over. She is slipping away. Her husband, Phil Broker, knows his family needs an escape. Time alone. He takes them to a friend's place. Harry Griffin has graciously given them the keys to his place in Glacier County, and fitted Broker with a part time job, whether the ex-cop, ex-military guy needed work or not. It would give him something to do, to keep him busy.

Broker, Pryce, and their daughter Kit do the best they can to settle in. The cabin is out in the middle of nowhere, but close enough to town for Kit to continue her education while Pryce works on Pryce. A bully at school, Teddy Klumpe, sets in motion a catastrophic series of events that, once started, becomes impossible to stop.

Gator makes a good living restoring vintage tractors. It isn't enough. He wants to be in the big time. Cooking and selling meth is where the money is at. He knows something is not right about Broker. The guy doesn't fit into the community. Sticks out like a sore thumb. Taking a closer look at the family a plan hatches in his demented mind.

Long ago Broker worked undercover. He infiltrated a biker gang. His intel got many of the members arrested. Sent to prison. There were still hard feelings. Danny T. has never let the anger over JoJo's arrest subside. In fact it has only festered. When he learns Broker may have been responsible for the bust, and the Broker was in Glacier, the idea of revenge becomes the biker's only motivation.

There can be no witnesses. The vendetta should be complete. And while Broker believes his life his finally getting back in line, his world is upended . . . and the ones he loves the most are suddenly in danger!

Homefront is explosive. I read the book with a knot in my gut the entire time. Too often I had to remember to breathe. While the movie was definitely good, enjoyable, the novel they adapted the film from was one-hundred times better!

Phillip Tomasso
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Walter E. Kurtz
4.0 out of 5 stars Good thriller, albeit a little slow in the middle
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From what I understand, this is the sixth book in a series about an undercover cop Phil Broker. I have not read the previous books. Like most people, I was attracted to the book because of the 2013 movie with Jason Statham. This review is about the book and not the movie, so I will only say that the movie all by itself is not bad, although it is nothing special either. Compared to the book, however, it is a very poor adaptation that takes too many liberties with the story. For example, Broker’s wife, who is an important character in the book, is dead in the movie. Also, Jason Statham might be great when it comes to beating and shooting people on the big screen, but he is a poor actor who does not have enough skill to play Phil Broker as he is portrayed in the book.

Okay. Enough with the movie. Now the book.

As I have said, I have not read the previous books in the series, so I can judge Homefront only on its own merits. Whether that is good or bad, I will let you decide. You do not need to read the previous books to understand this one. From what I gather, Broker’s wife Nina, who is a Delta Force soldier, was in the previous book involved in an undercover operation meant to expose a terrorist cell on American soil. The terrorists were planning to blow up a nuclear power plant. They were stopped, but a lot of people died, and some of them because of Nina’s mistakes. Her shoulder was also badly mauled and she was sent on extended sick leave to recover. The guilt over her dead friends and the crippling effects of the injury threw her into severe depression. To help her recover, Broker takes some time off from his work and the whole family moves to a small town to relax and heal. Needless to say, things turn out differently.

Their daughter Kit is attacked at school by a bully. Being the daughter of a police officer and special forces soldier, she knows how to defend herself. She quickly teaches the bully a lesson. Broker is called to school to pick up his daughter. Once there, he encounters the boy’s parents. The boy’s mother belongs to a local clan that has a (well deserved) reputation as criminals and troublemakers. She goads her husband to start a fight with Broker. Broker quickly disarms the father and considers the whole thing to be over. But it is not over. In small towns feuds can last long time.

The boy’s mother goes to see her brother. Everyone calls him “Gator” because he has a tattoo of an alligator on his arm. Gator agrees to help and sneaks into Broker’s house to cause some mayhem. While he is there, he finds some documents lying around (and why does Broker have classified police documents lying around?) and grabs them out of curiosity. In these documents he discovers that Broker was an undercover cop and that he was involved in a case that resulted in a crime boss’s son getting killed by police. Having some contacts in the criminal underworld and smelling a chance of a lifetime, he contacts the crime boss and offers a trade. Gator has a meth lab producing drugs, but he has no way to sell them. In exchange for access to a distribution network, he will give them Broker. The deal is done and an assassin arrives to kill Broker. And then…

And then read it for yourself. I guarantee you that it is well worth it.

Now, as for the book, overall I like it. Unlike the movie, this is a thriller that builds up slowly, but then it does deliver. The first one hundred pages draw you in. Then we get two hundred pages or so where little happens action wise, but the story slowly builds up and we get a thorough exploration and development of all the characters.

I think that this is the best aspect of the book. At the beginning, the characters appear rather clichéd. Take the bully’s mother. At first she appears to be your typical white trash redneck with serious attitude problem. But then her backstory and personality get explored in greater detail. Yes, she is overall an unpleasant person, but we get to see how she became like that and we get to see that there is more to her.

I think that this is where the author’s skill lies. It is not that he avoids cliché’s, it is that he goes beyond them. People, when you first meet them, do tend to fall under one cliché or another. We all have our own personality and we all tend to constantly show a certain type of “face” to the outside world. But we are also individuals. Once you get to know people, you quickly see that there is more to them. The cliché never completely disappears, but it gets rounded up and explored at depth.

A good writer does not necessarily avoid clichés, but expands and builds upon them. And in Homefront this is precisely what we get.

My only complaint is the whole depression thing with Broker’s wife Nina. When the depression hits her, and it does hit her hard, they decide to move to a small town and leave her alone so that she can recover. Having had some personal experience with depression, I can tell you that this is a bad idea. Leaving a depressed person to brood alone is not only not helpful, it makes things worse.

That Broker and his daughter don’t know how to handle this, I can understand. In the book they say that Nina can’t go to army psychiatrist because he would write her out of Delta as unfit to serve due to psychological reasons.

Okay. I can buy that. But what prevents them from going to a civilian therapist? Therapists are bound by patient-doctor confidentiality, so the civilian therapist would not rat her out to the army. And the couple is not under surveillance, so no one would know that Nina is seeing a psychiatrist anyway.

Then, in the end she comes to accept that her career in Delta is over and she snaps out of her depression just like that, in a minute or less. While realizing and accepting that her military career is over would certainly help her heal, people do not snap out of depression overnight as if by magic.

I am surprised that the author wrote things that way. He seems to be very knowledgeable about everything else, from police procedures to combat situations. Why didn’t he do more research about how depression works?

Yes, this is a fictional book and no one will (nor should) use it as a guide on how to treat depression, but it bothers me when an otherwise well researched book fails in other areas.

But this is a small complaint. Nina’s miraculous recovery aside, this is a realistic and well written thriller with good characters and interesting story that draws you in. I give it four and a half stars.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Just let the kids handle it
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2015
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I go this book because I had watch the movie adaptation and wanted to compare the two. As is usually the case the book was different from the movie, but in a good way. Both movie and book show what happens when parents get involved in their children's problems. What starts as a fight between two children ends up turning into a wholly different thing. I don't want to give to much of the story away, but when the big kids get involved things get taken to a whole new level. Phil Broker is trying to save his family from coming apart at the seams and gets thrust into events that he didn't want. Now I would not say that there are innocent victims in this story, but there are degrees of innocence and that is what this story has. If you like stories that have nice people in less than ideal situations, but ends with a glimmer of hope at the end then give this one a try. It is a fast paced story and one that holds your attention to the end.
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Bob Menth
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book !
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2022
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Good reading, enjoyed! Thanks
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cger
3.0 out of 5 stars Good story but the movie does not follow it at ...
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2017
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Good story but the movie does not follow it at all - completely different setting and characters.
Also, I don't know if this is the result of the e-book conversion or not but all of the Phil Broker books suffer from really poor proofreading - lots of spelling and grammar errors. Sometimes the character names get mangled also. Somebody could have done a much better job on these.
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Paul W Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars Another victory for Phil Broker, the self-made slayer of bad guys
Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2015
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What a great story but a stark change from the previous plots Logan's Broker has to face. Broker's up-front way of dealing with negative characters builds confidence quickly.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Logan is always a 5-star
Reviewed in Canada on August 7, 2021
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Another great Chuck Logan book. Phil Broker is strong and believable.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2015
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