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Target Acquired

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I thought the book was well written and suspenseful. There was good character development and the subject matter was something I've never seen before. It's a little too close to possible and that was somewhat disconcerting. I've never heard about this type of weapon system before. An interesting subject, especially in this day and age.

Narlock's first book, aptly entitled "50-D", and now sadly out of print, was a cult classic amongst the telecommunications techies of the 1980s. In "Target Acquired" Narlock branches out in a new direction entirely. His readers benefit as "50-D" was considered a bit of a sleeper by the USOAR cognoscenti.

Great Read! So believable it was frightening. Characters were very well done, fully realized and complete human beings, not sterotypes. I am looking forward to more from this author and sorry I missed his earlier book.

Narlock's first book, aptly entitled "50-D", and now sadly out of print, was a cult classic amongst the telecommunications techies of the 1980s. In "Target Acquired" Narlock branches out in a new direction entirely. His readers benefit as "50-D" was considered a bit of a sleeper by the USOAR cognoscenti.

The plot of TARGET ACQUIRED sounded interesting--the reason I bought the book--and another author probably could've pulled it off. It is about the testing of 'Tiger', a revolutionary UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) for the government under The Patriot Act. The technical team has a traitor in its midst, and you can guess the rest. Acronyms abound in this book to the point of distraction. There's so many that I doubt this entire page would hold them all. Makes for boring reading. In addition,the prose is choppy at best, the characters paper cut-outs, and the conclusion was rushed. I wanted to quit halfway through, but decided to finish it, thinking I would find a reason why the book was published. A real stinker here.