What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
Bob mayer brings an amazing perspective to these military action thrillers. The storyline is believable, the characters are relatable and the action sequences leave you unable to put the book down. Another very good military fiction story by bob mayer... Read More
Bob mayer is a masterful story teller. Mayer makes the reader feel the pain, fear and the grim determination of this elite team in the execution of their mission. Probably bob mayer's best work.
Meng, a chinese immigrant is a computer scientist working on realistic army simulations of combat situations. He turns a computer simulation of an attack on china from th us into a real world reality. This is a nail biter of a techno thriller when a c... Read More
A deployed a-team is assigned from their location in korea to do some training as if the situation was required for north korea operations. The same team is suddenly tasked to prepare for deployment into china. Dave riley and mitchell are back togethe... Read More
Detailed, action-packed, and ripe for a cinematic treatment. Takes a long time to get to the top of the hill - the trip downhill is fast and breathtaking.
Cons
The kindle version is full of typos and formatting errors. It never becomes an experience. Every typo is a mistake.
Highlights
Quality
Mayers writing puts you right in the middle of the team being sent in and you experience the stress drama and the harrowing fig... Read More
Additionally it appeared like the chinese military with the exception of the chinese colonel who was calling the shots were p... Read More
I have to admit that i struggled with the first half of the book there was too much technical information and the process of p... Read More
However david riley and his special force team are told that the mission is real and are provided with the appropriate authorization code
Packaging/appearance
Was a prequel to the first in the series
Competitiveness
This was an exellant portral of an sf misson
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Wor is not as great and or glamours as holliwood would makit out to be
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This book has no bad guys just military men trying to do their duty
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Much of the detail on various weapon systems could have been handled with footnote for those that are interested
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The concept seems far fetched but the author made it believable
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Unfortunately the author did not review the continuity of the series and so if you read this back to back after eyes of the hammer you may be disappointed because some characters and plot continuation is just not there
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I might be wrong because im attempting to read the authors entire catalog over 70 novels between october 2016 and febmarch 2017 and my brain is absolutely filled with his stories and characters as i type this in middecember
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Assuming this was mayers first book i decided to take an academic approach and try to find things i could use to separate his earlier works from what hes publishing now
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Kinda thought this would suck a little but id see glimpses of what was to come
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