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Solemn Duty

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Having read all Leonard B. Scott's military novels I found his transition to writing about civilian life and the FBI interesting. Although the book does have a military backdrop entry Scott's writing style and the story he is telling quickly has you engrossed. His character development in this books is not as profound as in some of his others yet the story is good. His knowledge of the places he writes about and the apparent research he did to write this book make it stand up as a good book but he has written better ones. He is still easy to read however and once you read any one of his books you want to read them all. A Scott fan.

Yet another good, but not great book by Col. Scott. The more he strays from the plots of his earlier works, the weaker his books seem to get. The characters were extremely predictable as well as the books outcome. As always, the action is outstanding, but the gratuitous love scenes are silly. I expect Fabio to be on the next cover. If you don't mind thumbing through the senseless love story passages, you will probably enjoy the action in this book.

Solem Duty is another winner for Leonard Scott fans. Althought the characters in ``Duty'' are not as memorable as those in Charlie Mike, The Last Run and Expendables, they are a real as the people next door. Scott's plot combination of an FBI agent bound by honor and the turth instead of politics, a partner with a feminist chip on her shoulder, a conspiracy that targets an aging Special Forces team with current events put him in the same class as Larry Bond, Steven Coonts and Dale Brown. You won't be disappointed, and if it's your first Leonard B. Scott book get ready to backtrack to his earlier books

A good story in the Scott tradition but not up to his earlier work.