Review: Entertaining plus
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2014
Looking for stories of action and suspense?  These two first-rate novels meet that reqirement.  Oh yes, don't forget the mandatory romance -- it add a nice touch.  Following are individual reviews of the two novels.  Reviewed by the author of The Children's Story, A Novel Not for Children (about good and evil).Cut OutThis is a sure-fire action story not of the pulp fiction variety in my opinion.  It is more original than formula although there are elements that are common to the genre as in all the better novels of action and suspense.The story combines Special Forces (Riley) and police (Giannini) who do war with the bad guys.  Philip Cobb, who testified against the mob, and his wife are to be placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program, but that is not what happens.  Our duo gets involved not knowing who the bad guys are, and there are many.  They are trying to stay alive.  (Don't get in the way of falling bodies.)  This is a journey of discovery in which it is necessay to determine what is really happening and who is guilty.  The descriptive detail (especially about Special Forces skills) add to the story.  Engaging; fast moving.The LineFor more than 50 years a secret organization of military officers has manipulated national policy.  Now, they have reached a point in which they want to take over the country.  Firest discovery comes because Trace is writing a fictlional book about some of the events without understanding what it is all about.  Or is it fiction?  Events become intense as she and Boomer begin to realize the country may be in peril.Bob Mayer has created a compelling plot with characters that are mostly 3-dimensional and situations that are believable.  This is a story of conspiracy and of doing that which is necessay even though it smacks of evil.  The ending is satisfying, at least to me.  But what would you do?  There is a wealth of descriptive material, especially about military capabilities, that add to the story.  This is a gripping novel of suspense, political and military type action with a twist of morality.  This is a work of fiction, but in our time could something like this happen or is it too far out?