A military coup will begin in Turkey in less than a month. The year is 2016. Chick Cutter and Emily Yilmaz are excited about their upcoming two-year working trip to Adana, Turkey where they will manage the construction of a multi-million dollar electricity generating plant. Chick is a young experienced construction project manager and he has chosen as his assistant the even younger but capable and tenacious Emily. Emily is fluent in the Turkish language. It is a skill that played a key role in her hiring‒ problem is the generating plant will never be built. 

Hasan Izzeddin, Turkish multi-billionaire, and Omar Akbas, Turkish bureaucrat, have an ingenious but somewhat insane plan for power and revenge. The coup will provide a perfect smokescreen for their dastardly scheme. 

Once the dark mission is discovered, Chick and Emily team up with the project’s veteran Vietnam-era heavy-lift helicopter pilot, Rusty, and his Philippine partner of twenty years, Jasmin. It is to be Rusty’s job to assist the secret revolution utilizing the construction project’s Sikorsky heavy-lift helicopter. The safety of a kidnapped Jasmin will buy Rusty’s cooperation. Along with Chick, Emily, Rusty, and Jasmin, a loveable and portly hotel manager and an Air Force Major round off the small squad who will stand against the megalomaniac Izzeddin and his group of hired mercenaries from Afghanistan and Syria. 

The small six-person squad of unlikely combatants will be whipped into shape by Chick. Chick is a recent veteran who excelled as a skillful combat infantry Lieutenant while fighting in Afghanistan. “The Ottoman’s Sword” is a fast-moving action/thriller loaded with clever banter between likable characters and a mix of not-so-clever and very un-likeable villains. The story comes together nicely with a good share of surprises as it winds down to a satisfying conclusion that should please any reader.