Review: More and more impressed....
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 21, 2013
After 100 chapters into Red Gambit most people have decided whether or not to keep reading and I seriously doubt that anyone is likely to have started reading this series this far in. This review is only for discussion and, as I know the author checks out the comments, to offer one view of the series.I'm guessing most readers, like myself, are history buffs. Alternate history done well is outright fascinating to people like me. Colin Gee has risked using well know, real historical characters to a larger degree than seen most such works. I have to say he's done a masterful job doing so. Sure, we can never know how the Stalin's, Eisenhower's, Beria's, et. all, would really behave given these alternate circumstances, but so far Gee has persuaded me that their actions are very plausible. (We know Beria was an evil man. Skeletons of young women have been discovered on his property. Sure - he could have done what Gee speculates.)As always the strength of the story is the impressive research. I've said before that it can be overwhelming, but adds to the logic of what he writes. And, again, his characterizations of people is impressive, whether good, bad, or mixed, he describes them in a way that makes them real.His previous focus on the European theater may change as he has included action against the Japanese. I'd like to know how the research toward American's bomb was progressing after breaking the spy ring early in the series, but the scale is so huge that may have to wait.In all I'm glad I've got the time and patience to follow the events depicted. And I'm looking forward to the next installment.Again, I'm pretty certain that anyone who has put in this much time into reading Red Gambit has already made up their mind about  continuing reading.Ohh... almost forgot, the graphics on Kindle make a full appreciation of the details Gee includes on maps and charts difficult to appreciate. That he has these maps and charts does reinforce the competence he's shown in his research.