Review: True to life action --finally an explosive thriller!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 11, 2013
A good book can paint a picture so that you can watch their story unfold. A great book pulls you in by the hand and throws you into the driver seat to experience it. This is a great book. I read that the author is a career Special Agent with the US Department of State. His military and government background may have given him the knowledge acquired to write such an incredible thriller but his intelligence and  smooth, strong writing skills made it a masterpiece.Remember how I said that a great book will pull you in? From the first paragraph of this book I felt myself disappearing from the couch and entering a world that was very hard for me to enter before. I have read military, spy and action novels before but I do not understand the lingo and I usually end up power reading much of it to get to the parts I do understand. I also power read because I don't understand what those other books were trying to describe. I did not have that problem with this book.The Supplicant takes the reader deep into the military government. It is written in such a way as that someone with no military experience can truly drown in the excitement of his story. You get it. You understand what he's trying to say because somehow he can portray a complicated scene in a way that is both wildly descriptive yet completely readable. When you're in the flying tank, the chopper that is taking the men into the "hot-zone" (I don't want to write spoilers), the author has you planted in the center of the craft. You see these men; you will see the chopper, even the lethal load it carries. You will feel their thoughts as much as read them. You will feel both tension and excitement. It's a wild ride.The action will start right away with a well-written hostage scene and within several paragraphs you have bonded with the character. You get to know him as a person within two pages. This author's gift of writing gives you, as a civilian, a chance to enter this incredible REAL world of spies, espionage, terrorism, training and so much more. You will truly be a part of that world.You do more than read about the characters, you act with them. There was one scene where a character was training in a vehicle and I actually learned something exciting. There are many times in this book were I stopped and said, "Ohhhh." Because the truth is that not many people can write good thrillers like this and I'm telling you that this one is... I can't even find the right word....is absolutely my new favorite real-life thriller. Hands down this is one of those books you won't forget you read. In fact after reading this one you will probably finally understand all the ones you read from other authors before.