Review: Not his best work
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2013
I have read all Evan Currie's later books, and enjoyed them very much, but I did not like this one.  Like his subsequent books, this story has some great battle scenes and I liked the idea for a futuristic power station.  Not quite sure where all the water to run it came from in the dead heart of the continent, but may be that's nitpicking.  Unfortunately I also didn't find the rest of the plot believable, I thought the female police officer was unrealistically stupid and I hated a lot of the "Aussie" dialogue.  I've spoken to quite a few Australian soldiers and I don't recall any of them ever calling me "son", let alone doing it in every third sentence.  "Mate" may be "son" no.The rest of the background didn't gel either.  I don't know if Interpol agents cruise the world looking for bad guys but I suspect they don't, particularly in countries with their own police forces.  I am, however, sure that they won't be able to legally bring their own weapons and ammo into the country without filling in a lot of paper work first.  Amazingly the country does have its own defence forces too, not nearly so large as America's, but not so small that they can only field a single team of soldiers to deploy in the middle of the country.  And the army bases, even by road, would surely be able to get some personnel on the ground sooner than a helicopter flown from mainland USA.