Unit 416
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4.4 • 7 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Five tough as nails men. One hard-assed Sergeant. The only chance to change their lives. These are the men of Unit 416. Push them hard and they push harder. Things are about to get deadly—but with the skill and swagger of Unit 416, no mission is impossible…
Born and raised in America’s hardest streets, five men are faced with the ultimate choice: continue their lives of crime and incarceration or serve their country and join the Army. Master Sergeant Keeble is faced with no good choice: be the leader of a new section called Unit 416 or take him and his surgically-repaired leg out of the game for good. At first, all Keeble has to work with is a ragtag group of men with no regard for the rules and a huge chip on their shoulders. But as the men go through training and more together, they form a group so tight, so formidable, that nothing can break them apart. And when a secretive CIA directive leads them straight into the heart of Uzbekistan to infiltrate an arms cartel, Unit 416’s men will need all the grit, tough—and heart—they have in order to see this mission home.
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Pridgen (Color of Justice) teams with filmmaker Vinci on this so-so homage to the war movie The Dirty Dozen. Special Forces Master Sgt. Miles Keeble, who sustained career-ending injuries in Afghanistan while on the hunt for Taliban arms dealer Anemah Maasiq, gets the chance to continue his military service by training an unusual group of soldiers former criminals who chose conscription over incarceration for an undercover mission to disrupt the flow of stolen weapons entering the international black market. In the overlong section on their training, Keeble whips the reprobates of Army Special Missions Unit 416 into fighting shape. Five get through the training, and he leads them into Uzbekistan to tangle with Maasiq. Instead of truly bad men earning a last-ditch shot at redemption, the men of Unit 416 are misunderstood petty criminals, who began their rehabilitation with enlistment. Their lawlessness seems little more than window dressing, and any personality the characters had as ex-convicts becomes dulled by their transformation into generic warriors who might be deemed the cleaned-up half-dozen.
