Advice on strong fiction

[Aristus]

6. My personal opinion, divorced from his political views, is that Clancy's writing is boring.

Obviously not everyone feels that way. But I just about fell asleep trying to read The Hunt For Red October. Which was disappointing, because I found the film riveting.

If you want escapism, with an emphasis on military hardware, try some of Harold Coyle's novels. They are interesting and fairly well-written. They have the added benefit of Coyle's history of military service, whereas Clancy was a standard stay-at-home right-wing chickenhawk. I enjoyed Team Yankee, which is about M1 tankers in a hypothetical war with Russia. The Ten Thousand is a modern-day re-telling of the story of Xenophon's ten thousand hoplite warriors. I never really got a sense of Coyle's politics from the novels I read.