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Jackknife

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When John "Jackknife" McCabe, a truck driver for MegaMart and retired SpecOps, makes a delivery to the new UltraMegaMart on it's opening day, he has no idea that a terrorist group is planning to nuke the store and kill thousands of innocent Americans. This is a great book, fast-paced, and impossible to put down. The tension continues to build as Jackknife tries not only to save the day but also his wife and daughter, who have chosen that particular day to do their shopping. What is interesting is that the book cover on Amazon has the title as JACKNIFE where the actual book has the title as JACKKNIFE with two Ks. Other great books in this series are Home Invasion and Invasion USA (Book 2) Border War.

A fun read. There is plenty of action and fun characters in this book. The dialogue and the pacing feel like that of a Hollywood film. It is a patriotic book and timely. I'm a huge fan of Johnstone's Mountain Man seris, and have tried several of his more recent books the last year or so. Vengeance is Mine was good, The Alamo was better. But out of the three I believe this is the best I've read. The action is there and is a bit more believable. My only complaint would be that the title character, Jacknife, appears only a few times in the first 80 pgs. Johnstone makes up for this in the second half of the book however. As mentioned by other reviewers it would probably help if the reader leaned more towards the conservative side of politics due to Johnstones colorful diologue that often lampoons the `liberal media', `p.c. police' etc. But I believe any open-minded reader and fan of the action genre would enjoy Jacknife.

Excellant story line that leaves the reader thinking about activities in our daily lives. The story line could happen any where in the US.

It looks like this book was written for the die hard fans of Walker Texas Ranger and Sean Hannity. The plot for the story sounds good but doesn't live up to my expectations. Terrorists plan to blow up a walmart type shopping mall (like who wouldn't do that?) and so its up to a truck driver who not only is at the mall at the time of the attack but also is a former special forces operative. Like I said it sounds good but what really lets this book down is that the writer vomits all over the place with his political beliefs. Hey, Johnstone!! I don't care what your beliefs are just don't screw up a story with them.