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CI: Mission Liberty: An Army Counterintelligence Novel

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In their third novel, Dave DeBatto and Pete Nelson have wandered very far from book one indeed. This is not counterintelligence. At best, it could be considered general human intelligence collection, with more than a smidgeon of direct action and special operations thrown in. I'm really disappointed.

Particularly offensive was one phrase: when General LeDoux said he was, "Commander G-2, DOD Ops Intel." For someone who was supposed to be CI, that showed a monumental ignorance of the Army G-2, who is not a commander, and DOD Ops Intel, which doesn't exist.

After that, the book was no longer a grabber. I still finished it, but without any expectation that anything resembling actual CI would be there. It wasn't... Once I stopped looking for CI, it was a decent read, as long as one suspended actual military knowledge and just let the fiction be fiction.

But I really did expect better...

This book never really launched. It plodded along, glacially. I finished it, but I had to force myself to not pick up another book.

There's a few action scenes, and a bit of human interest. Stephen Coonts, David Hagberg, even Tom Clancy (who as late has been disappointing): sleep well at night, these guys are no threat.

This book is not quite a waste of trees, but it is close.