Review: Good start for a new series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 16, 2014
Amazon suggested this book to me, but I did not recognize the author and the price seemed a little high for an author not known to me.  However, L.C. Chase had created a great cover art.  I wondered how the Retro Radio fitted in cover art that would not be out-of-place on a Tom Chancy novel. That triggered a second look and lead to me to purchase this book.  What a good choice.I enjoyed reading Hell & High Water and look forward to reading more in the Therian Human Intelligence, Recon, Defense Squadron also known as the THIRDS.  Ms Cochet has writen a techno-thiller with enough "toys" for any gun bunny without spending pages describing weapons.  I was very happy with her skill in presenting necessary background information as part of the plot without requiring a character to exist solely to lecture the reader.Weak points : I admit that I, as will most readers, easily guessed who was the evil character, the motive and the method of the evil.  I also thought the detailed sex was not a necessary detail.  It could have been handled like the weapons details, no need for pages of explicit details.  Yes I have purchased many works published by  Dreamspinner Press and know explicit sex is considered a requirement.  But it does not stop me from thinking that Dreamspinner Press  could have acted like the  Naval Institute Press did when it published The Hunt for Red October - break from its normal publishing history to publish a really good book of fiction.