Customer Reviews

Who Dares Wins: Two Brothers. One Mission. And a Whole World of Trouble...

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The book starts with a good action scene involving a SAS extraction operation in Iraq. Then, a misfortune has changed the life of Jacob Redman. Following that, there is the additional element of espionage, MI5, professional killing, assassination etc, which looks promising. However, the twist that are promised for Jacob turns out not to be a twist at all. This makes the second half of the book a bit disappointing and lack of excitement to speak of. If the author has put in more effort to deliver the promised twist, for example, a consipiracy setting up his brother as an scapegoat, and how Sam is going to save him while defying orders from his superior etc, the story can deserve a higher rating.

Chris Ryan has good story telling skills. There is no redundant description of anything that is not related to the sotry. If he can spend time in developing more interesting and intriguing story threads, he should be able to escalate himself to a higher league of action/thriller writers.

I really enjoyed this book compared to some of ryans others, i honestly didnt find it boring and kept expecting the twists to keep turning but enjoyed that he didnt play in to the obvious roles. really good read.

I've loved previous books by the same author but this one doesn't even try to be believable. The first few pages are good but then it goes downhill. I'm also wondering whether this is ghostwritten or something because I've found out that a M16 now fires 45mm bullets. That will come as a surprise to anyone who knows anything about guns, and I doubt a former soldier would type something like that!