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40 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Losing his touch,
By David L. Lewis (Norman, OK United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dead Hand (Hardcover)
Dead Hand is an example of what happens when a good author runs out of ideas. The plot is appealing enough - we Americans LOVE renegade Russian generals - but even that may be starting to wear a little thin. Unfortunately the characters need lots more work, the story line seems to be jumbled collection of disconnected scenarios, and the small unit combat actions - the passages which Harold Coyle has always been so good at - are pretty much absent from the book. Mr. Coyle's musings on the nature of military leadership are borrowed from Ted Fehrenbach's study of Korea, "This Kind of War" and the description of the meteor strike reminds me a little too much of Niven and Pournelle's "Lucifer's Hammer". Dead Hand leaves me with the feeling that the book was written in a great rush to meet a contract date. It also leaves me feeling that a good writer has become burnt out.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Terribly disappointing,
By Gunfighter (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dead Hand (Hardcover)
It has been a long time since I have been this disappointed by an author whose work I used to love.In DEAD HAND, Mr Coyle produced an indifferent plot, paper thin characters, no focal point, and an awful ending. There appeared to be no particular main character, the combat scenes were nowhere nearly as descriptive as they have been in his other novels, and he ended the book leaving numerous loose ends. No need for me to go on, other than to say that I recommend passing on this book. It was awful.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
A Disappointment,
By A Customer
This review is from: Dead Hand (Hardcover)
I have read all of Harold Coyle novels todate and eagerly looked forward to his latest. Unfortunately , this one is not up to his usual high marks. His characters lack depth and it is almost as if he had tried to put too many into too small a book. It reads more like an outline than a novel.French Foreign Legion, SAS, Special Forces, Russian Commandos,Falling Comets, Political Upheaval, all too much for such a short book.Coyle should go back to writing about what he knows best," Soldiering!"Anyone of the characters that he describes , so briefly, would have made a great story. I do hope his next is back up to par with his earlier novels.
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