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TALON Force : Meltdown

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This book is a wonderful blend of story, high-tech gadgets, action, and very engaging characters! These are the NAVY SEALS/GREEN BERETS of the 21st century! A great beginning to what seems to be a great series! I really liked the development of the characters in this book. The author did a marvelous job of revealing more about the characters while keeping up the pace of a story full of slam-bang action! Not only are the good guys(and gals) good, but the bad guys are bad! Mr. Garnett knows his stuff! Read the first two in 2 days, can't wait for the next one! For action fans, this is a must read series!

The Second Talon Force book was great. It gave good information about Cuba and its cities. This book kept me on the edge of my seat. I really liked this book. I can't wait till I read the next book.

I purchased this book because I liked the PREMISE of the first one, if not the characterization. I also wanted to know if, like the first one, the second book would have a section in the back that went into detail about how Mr. Garnett imagines the technology that the soldiers use. Unfortunately, it does not have such a section, which means that from my point of view, the book has little value. So sue me. I am interested in portrayals of future military technology, in its own right. Even so, I read the book and I liked the way that Mr. Garnett had significantly improved the detail in the characterization of the *FRIENDLY* forces. But I was very angry because of the following things.
At the beginning of the story, when the black soldier DuBois is playing in the bar, why are two women grinding up against him? Why is he blatantly described as liking this behavior? Commander Powczuk's wife is first shown ready to violently throw him out for unfaithfulness, which he deserves, but then, after he makes love with her, she magically loves Commander Powczuk again. This is an insult to women. Why was one of the lovers of the unfaithful Commander Powczuk described to be a member of the Saudi royal family? Did Mr. Garnett think no one would notice this insult? It true that there are many bad things about Saudi Arabia. Is the correct thing to respond with insults!?

The friendly woman soldier, Olsen, defeats two members of the dock gangs in Cuba who are trying to rape her. At this, another soldier quips about the women members of the unit: "Even our pussies aren't pussies!" Excuse me if I take exception, but doesn't Mr. Garnett know that women are not the same as their reproductive organs? Why do the soldiers searching the Cuban whorehouses for the Arab terrorist fantasize about patronizing the whorehouses? Don't they know that involvement with prostitution is evil behavior? Don't the soldiers have honor? And these are supposed to be the finest of American soldiers. Such soldiers who patronize whorehouses are living piles of excrement who should be burned alive.

Why, when Mr. Garnett includes foreign characters speaking English, does he write down their English words with outrageous "dialect" spellings? Why does he not learn the correct way the Russian names are written down in English? Every single time he writes a Russian name in English, he writes the parts of the name so they are not correct, and make no sense. Why do the TALON FORCE soldiers constantly use the racist word "Cube" to mean "Cuban," and once even "sand monkey" to mean "Middle Eastern terrorist?" Why draw attention to the Cuban pronunciation of the word "Cuba," as if to say that something different is by nature weird and unacceptable?

These thing are mentioned simply for your consideration.