Review: Shame on the author for not being more sensitive.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
I think there was more about this book that I didn't like than did like.  There was nothing wrong with the writing but I did expect there to at least be some drama or tension, which there wasn't.  What I didn't like at all were the characters.Patrick is a Navy SEAL on leave in Cuaraco.  The first thing he does is head to a whorehouse, even though he knows that most of those women are forced into that trade, abused and often killed if they don't do what they're supposed to.  He picks Annie from a lineup and tells her to give him a blowjob.  At the end she tells him she's an American who was kidnapped and needs help but he just leaves.  He doesn't want to be burdened with her problems, just wants to forget he met her.  I'm sure there are men out there who would respond the same way but throughout the book are quotes from some Navy SEAL handbook, all about integrity, honor, protecting the weak etc.  Supposedly he believes 100% in being a SEAL and living up to the code, unless it's inconvenient for him I guess!Sure, he makes plans to rescue her and goes back to see her but what was he doing there in the first place, knowing what those women were?  Disgusting and shameful.Another thing that REALLY bothered me about this book was how everyone referred to Annie.  She was an 18 year-old kid who was kidnapped, turned into a heroin addict and forced into prostitution.  She was a sex slave, she was raped and beaten.  Why did she and everyone else refer to her as a whore, a hooker or a prostitute?  She wasn't doing it by choice, which is what those words imply.  Every time they came up in the book I wanted to punch the person who had said it.  I was incredibly disappointed in the author for using those words in a situation like that.I'm sure there are readers out there who can overlook the things that bothered me so much about this book but when the subject matter is so horrible I think the writer should be a lot more sensitive.