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Manhunt: USA vs. Militia: #2

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I always give an author a second chance but Manhunt is, if anything, even worse than Battle Front. The characters are still thin, the plot became even thinner (which is not disguised by having three essentially independent stories woven together to make it look like there is actually a storyline to follow.)

In this book, Slater continues to portray the militia units as battle-experienced crack troops and the US troops as green. Given that the bulk of the US troops are national Guard, I can buy some of that, but not to the extent given in this book. If Slater's assessment of the Guard units is true, one would be hard-pressed to imagine how any of the Guard troops returned alive from Gulf Storm -- the vast majority of them would have accidently shot themselves while opening their mail from home. Meantime, the militia are teflon -- no s**t sticks them, no matter how badly they muck things up. This pattern continues through this book to the point of being very irritating.

Once again, find something else to read -- to rip off an old novelty film, "You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss six bucks goodbye." I will not be picking up any of Slater's book in the future.

I was searching for a new author and will obviously continue my search. Read other comments and you will get the message, he doesn't really understand us and how our system works. If you think that a hostage situation, as outlined in this book, could have the impact on decisions as it does in this book.... I say wake up and smell the coffee. I was waiting for this book to allow the President of the United States to become in harms way because of the 2 hostges held by the milita.

As for the story as pure fiction, how much can one swallow? The ALERTs in this book are anything but... If some people think this is similar to Clancy's Rainbow Six team, they better reread the book. At every turn they make mistake after mistake and keep getting another chance.

This book has to be the worst researched novel I have ever read! It reads like a "Television Junkie" who has seen too many "Walker, Texas Ranger" episodes on what the militia is about and decides to put down his beer and write a book. If you are looking for an entertaining book on what drives anti-government sentiments, read "Unintended Consequenses" by John Ross. It is a long read but well worth the time invested. As for "Manhunt" I wish there was a rating less than 1 star!

The topic is a (very) hypothetical ongoing conflict between militia groups and the US military in the near future. Slater tells a moderately exciting story but, in so doing, takes some shortcuts.

In every Slater book there is some factor which is harped on again and again by most of the characters. This time it is 'El Nino' and CNN. Every weather phenomenon is blamed on 'El Nino'; CNN becomes the bogey representing the world's news media. This gets repetitive.

He has gotten a little better with American slang, but he still has Americans calling one another 'cheeky'. In fact, most Americans wouldn't even understand that expression.

What is really lacking in the USA vs. Militia series is any sort of coherent alternate history line, and the overall plots of his books don't vary much: Trouble starts. The modern Patton, a General Freeman (a very politically incorrect officer constantly on the outs with his superiors), is called in to save the day. His personal A-team, a mixed bag of international commandoes, are called on to make this or that happen. At least in this book, the group manages to get somewhat outfought, which is refreshing.

What Slater needs to do to get better is to develop a semi-credible scenario for his subject, but to do that he'd have to develop an understanding of Americans, and he doesn't show many signs of that. He's great on geography--obviously travels to the regions he's going to write about, and represents climates and terrain well. He'd do better if he devoted part of that time to encountering some of the people in those regions.

Ian needs to get into a community college and work on his writting skills. I just can't take anymore of his books.

Agree that John Ross' unintended consequences is a much better and well researched read.

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slater books are good but they are nowhere near tom clancy or other great authors if you like cheesy war movies then you'll like this book

I thaought this was a great military novel. I don't think the militia movement would get this big thought. I hope they make #4 I think they will if not he should write a novel about mercenaries there great.

I enjoy Ian's books even more than I do Tom Clancy's. Ian really researches his material, and you wonder if he was in fact in the U.S. Marines or other elite unit. His characters really come alive!

When i was in high school i began too read the WWIII series following high school I joined the Army and Served in the 82ND ABN As a grunt reading his books then i was appaled at his obvious lack of military knowledge if this guy can remain an author i guess i can be the pope. if you wanna good military books stick with harold coyle or the great Tom Clancy as for this guy I wouldn't trade my last MRE ham slice for one of his books unless i ran out of TP.