Sword Point is a story about the importance of learning and growing, and it is a great introduction to the world of knights and swords. He also becomes friends with other knights, and they help him to learn more about himself and the world around him. He joins a knightly order and begins to learn the skills and techniques necessary to be a successful knight. After being orphaned and spending his childhood being raised by a band of warriors, he discovers the power of the sword and the importance of knighthood. First edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition with a small, dime sized stain to the upper edge and bumped corner in Near Fine dust-jacket with minor edge wear is the story of a young man who discovers the power of the sword and the importance of knighthood.Sword Point is the story of a young man who discovers the power of the sword and the importance of knighthood. Paperback rights to Pocket Books Literary Guild dual main selection Military Book Club main selection major ad/promo.1/4 Cloth. Coyle's prose is often clumsy, the chapter-head quotes (from Napoleon, Sherman et al.) are as pertinent as fortune cookies and the ending manages to be sentimental and ungrammatical at the same time. And confusion arrives with the authentic alphabet soup: lots of info about MRRs, RDEs, BDUs, etc. It is interesting and well written a fast moving plot with accurate facts. Sword Point : a novel Bookreader Item Preview. Interest is not sustained by the book's undeniable authenticity, which has all the style of a training manual. Publication date 1988 Topics United States. Harold Coyle SWORD POINT Paperback Jby Harold Coyle (Author) 80 ratings Hardcover 10.99 100 Used from 1.46 20 New from 10.99 11 Collectible from 9.95 Paperback 25.99 9 Used from 14.20 17 New from 21.80 Mass Market Paperback 5.44 33 Used from 1.46 2 New from 35. The book is a 1988 novel so predates modern political and geopolitical situations. But all the characters are paper-thin and all sound equally earnest and boring. The narrative consists mainly of set pieces on back-and-forth desert fighting, flashing from one side to another and featuring some continuing characters. There is a little suspense about whether Iran, fighting both ``satans,'' will detonate an atomic bomb, and somewhat less about whether the U.S.S.R.
``places its trust in the ability of the individual soldier and his leaders.'' We are not surprised, therefore, when his thriller picks the winner of a two-month war between the superpowers in Iran. Army officer Coyle ( Team Yankee ) says that the Red Army treasures ``conformity and discipline'' while the U.S.
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