Blackout [Paperback]

Chris Ryan (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Century (2005)
• ISBN-10: 1846056292
• ISBN-13: 978-1846056291
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,850,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent story with a lot of twists., July 25, 2006

By 

Eric Giard "sun52tzu" (Montreal, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blackout (Mass Market Paperback)

Another good book from Chris Ryan.

The story line seems predictable but it always adds a new turn of events to the whole story. The loss of memory from Josh Harding brings the effect that we learn the story as the same time he does which brings suspense to the reading. Also, there is always a good amount of gunfight, torture, deaths and our beloved terrorists attack. As usual, the author Chris Ryan, talks about a subjects he knows: the SAS Regiment, terrorism, military slang and adventure.

Overall, it is a nice page-turner book on an overused subject (terrorism) from an author that knows how it is.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing concept, disappointing read., June 9, 2006

By 

Øyvind Wallentinsen (Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blackout (Paperback)

John Harding, SAS, is called home from a campaign in the Middle East as terrorists are cutting power supply in the USA, rendering three cities in the dark. Upon returning to the States, however, Harding finds himself in a ditch in an alien town with a bullet-wound, amnesia, and a group of assassins hunting him. Rescued by a local girl and her father, John Harding needs to regain his memory while avoiding capture or death, in order to uncover why he is in the town, and how it relates to the recent attacks.

The premise is interesting, but the book fails only in the inaccuracies it makes when it come to research of certain fields (the "cars explode upon crashing, making seat-belts lethal"-myth being my favourite case-of-point), but also in the myriad of unbelievable events that take place throughout the book. There are so many cliché unexpected twists and last-second rescues that all the immersion drains out of the book before you've read even half of it.

So while the characters are believable and varied and the concept is interesting, I do not recommend this book.

2.0 out of 5 stars No man would have survived, August 26, 2010

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Wendy J Hanson (Wasilla, AK United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blackout (Kindle Edition)

This book was one long torture session. Seriously. Josh had to have been super human to have survived all of the mental/physical abuse and torture he was subjected to in this story. I was very disappointed.