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Soldier of Gideon (Casca (Americana))

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The thing about writing a series of historically related books is to keep a timeline as accurately as possible. In this instance the writer who took Barry Sadler's original notes (Sadler did not complete this one) made a real mess of it. The incidents in this overdone novel relate to the 1967 Six-Day War but chronologically in the Casca series it occurs AFTER 1970 (I think Sadler was going to write about the Yom Kippur War). Also this book tends to be one mad assault on an Arab fortress after another and it gets boring. The only relief is a brief lull in Jerusalem when Casca does a bit of reminiscing. Otherwise its really a waste of the readers time unless you like a Steve Spielberg-style all-action Rambo all-out war from page 1 to the finish. YAWN.

This the last book in the CASCA series is a letdown. Haveing read the other 19, I expected much more.

There are two other Casca books written after this one. I really didn't care for this one as much as most of the others. Most of the story is somehow lacking in personality or any sort of imagination. I would reccomend not reading this one (or number 21 for that matter) until you have checked out the other ones in the series. Number 22 was pretty good ,if I remember correctly, as well.

I love heavily laden action/adventure stories. But this one, like quite a few latter others of this series, seemed like it was not even written by the illustrious author, Barry Sadler.

This novel was convincing me that JOVE was paying a ghost writer off as being Barry Sadler. It was that sterile. Very unlike Sadler's work.