Customer Reviews

The Return of the Dog Team

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Does this author do any preparation? "...a fast-closing blur that resolved itself into an aircraft: a helicopter. An A-130 Spectre gunship." (pg 11) Now come on. I know this is fiction, but if you are going to use real equipment, know what it is. It's not a helicopter - it's an airplane. Now, if that glaring fact hadn't been muddled, we could probably look past the fact that it is an "AC-130 Spectre" and not an "A-130". The aircraft plays an itegral role in the scene for several paragraphs, therefore it would have been worth typing it into any search engine before writing about it! Authors should do their homework, or at least wait until after the first chapter to take shortcuts.

If this book ended around page 200, then you would have a tight little story about small unit action in Iraq. Granted there were cliched characters and predictable story lines, but a tolerable read.

Unfortunately, they had another 80 pages to fill, and here the book embarks on a fantastic global plot that defies logic. It read like one of Ludlum's wheels within wheels within wheels plots, but without a reasonable basis.

The main reason I give the book 3 stars is that the writing is pretty good. The pace moves along, even when it roars over the deep end.

This was nothing more than a novel to provide quick bucks, and I unwittingly fell for it. The writing is terrible, with a poorly devised plot, even more poorly executed action sequences, and an astounding lack of tactical and technical knowledge. As one reviewer stated, an A-130 is a fixed wing aircraft, not a helicopter. One does not hover with the Spectre gunship.

The author seems to have issues deciding where exactly the action is taking place. In Iraq, or the fertile lands of the Ukraine or US Midwest? For one moment soldiers are in a desert terrain, and in another, after the secondary, supposed 'grandson' of the 'legendary' Terry Kovak, Steve Ireland is blown into earth that is a rich, fertile loam.

The secondary character Steve Ireland seems to have absolutely no purpose in the book. It is as if he was tacked on at the last minute. And even without him, the book is still horrible. In the middle of a firefight and a sandstorm to book, the two real protagonists pull of thier mics and scream to each other how they'll move and cover. Wait, what? And then Steve meets up with the protagonists and will just...go along with them and join their team? I thought he was a US Army SF soldier. He would know better than that. This isn't the Vietnam era anymore Mr. Johnstone. Troops don't just suddenly vanish. And even if they did, they certainly wouldn't suddenly work for ANOTHER government operation. The logic is missing completely and utterly.

I strongly urge anyone looking at purchasing this book to not do so. It is a waste of your money and an insult to your intelligence.

this book never took off it was boring from start to finish..if you enjoyed last of the dog team as i did then you will be disappointed with this one....