Island Inferno (2007)

Chuck Holton's second Task Force Valor novel opens with a jihadist's leap from a freighter and with Rip Rubio, home on leave in Los Angeles after a brush with a liquid explosive in Lebanon, punishing himself on a night run. His training watch is named on the first page of that run. (Open Library)

Watches

Suunto t6: Rip Rubio checks his Suunto t6 wrist computer as he turns onto Eighth Street a mile into his run, then speeds up when it tells him he is running slower than his usual seven-minute pace. The model is named in the text; no further detail is given.

Source text: He checked his Suunto t6 wrist computer as he rounded the corner onto Eighth Street, one mile into his run. (Chuck Holton, Island Inferno, scan cataloged as Multnomah Books, 2007, p. 6; Internet Archive scan OCR)