Review: Good, but missing some key elements
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2014
I'm a fan of Mr. Nuttall's writing, and he's very prolific and diverse in his interests. I see this novel as a next generation "Red Storm Rising".The premise of Russian forces rolling undeterred over a post NATO Europe is well plotted. I wish he had cut from  theatre to theater more to keep all the  action to  a single timeline, but despite having to roll back  your mental  clock to catch up with action on  a different front, the characters all hang together fairly well.My biggest objections involve the handling of  the Royal Family and the lost opportunity of even covering drone warfare. John Birmingham showed what a plausible future warrior Prince Harry could be. After the Russians take out the government, Mr. Nuttall leaves the Royals untouched but unremarked on during the period that the Emergency Government would  have most needed their gravitas.Likewise,  there is only one mention of drones in the book. Granted, he  wrote the story in 2009, but even then the Americans were using  Hellfire missiles from drones and  the US Navy was developing  carrier based drones to replace fighers. Surely EUROFOR would have advanced to at least that level by the period of this book. Not to mention the use of mini drones to scout battlefields for enemy units.Good book, but I wish those items had been handled differently.