Review: An exciting combination of The Matrix & The Expendables!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2011
First off, check out my "see all my Reviews".  This way you will know where I am coming from when I give D-Boys a good review.I was first introduced to the D-Boys way back in March or April via the preview (Smashwords & Amazon).  I e-mailed the author to let him know how much I enjoyed the preview, and that I could not wait to read the complete book.  The wait turned out to be several months, but Michael finally got pass his publisher problems and I had my chance to read the entire book!  I really enjoyed reading this book.  D-Boys is a unique blend of an action story & a hi-tech story merged together.  Michael does an excellent job of portraying the Delta Force soldiers as more than just the typical stereotype image of muscle bound shooters.  The D-Boys are dedicated, educated, and extremely well trained.  The D-Boys team up with a Homeland Security computer expert and together they battle terrorists in both the real world and in cyber-space.  The D-Boys is like a weird & exciting combination of the filmsThe Expendables (Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy)andThe Matrix [Blu-ray].In D-Boys the terrorist play a massively multi-player first person shooter online video game called AfterWar.  They use this synthetic world of AfterWar to communicate with each other world-wide (undetected), transfer funds, and to practice takedowns of key facilities.  Pretty clever.  The government can't just shut it down because there is no one server.  The terrorists used malicious code built into a special weapons mod in the AfterWar game to "hijack" user's PCs.  Once a PC gets infected, the terrorist then use the hijacked PC to launch denial of service attacks on key installations, and to build up their funds via phishing schemes (war bucks = real currency).They almost get away with it undetected, but once the civilian computer expert gets involved with a massive electrical shutdown via the internet, the D-Boys get going.  The author has said his 2nd D-Boys book will feature even MORE action, but I thought there was plenty of action in D-Boys.  There were exciting and tense well described battle scenes in America, England, and Pakistan, as well as numerous battle scenes in the world of AfterWar.  As tough as the D-Boys were, they proved they were human after all.  Just like in another great special ops thriller,PRIMAL Unleashedby Jack Silkstone, one of the Delta Force soldiers was killed in action.  No A-Team over the top action here.