Review: Nice try but no home run.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
Your fingers won't fly thru the pages of this one especially if you are a gun enthusiast, a veteran, or law enforcement. The author did not research his subject matter and it made for a "cringing" read for those of us with the referenced experience.EXAMPLES;  The author first has his hero, J.C. Dance, a SEAL team 6, Lieutenant who ENLISTED receiving a serious head injury during combat in Mogadishu 1993. There is no explanation as to how he rose from ENLISTED ranks to officer.Next instead of being flown to Germany for treatment with all the other wounded American military from Somalia, Dance somehow ends up in Southern California where he meets and falls in love with Marti a beautiful ,extremely young Psychiatrst.  They have a child named Tessa who is 8 years old as the story line begins.Now that the readers credibility has been softened up the author hits us with the "ankle gun fantasy". Dance  is a daily 5 mile Jogger and always carries his Glock 43 .40 cal  semi- automatic pistol which weighs 32 oz (2lbs) and is over 7inches long in an ankle holster strapped around his left leg.How many men could endure jogging five miles every day with a brick strapped to their ankle?When Dance confronts the villain near the end he gets clobbered with a length of pipe and his Glock is purloined by the villain who uses it at the climax t o shoot Dance in the leg yet Dance is described far-reaching down and retrieving his Glock to shoot the window of a pawn shop.Seems like proofreading was needed here.Another reviewer commented on the magic 4 inch knife that Dance had hidden behind his right ear. He manages to throw it with amazing accuracy into the right eye of his sworn enemy another ex Navy SEAL  who is holding a gun on him. Remember Dance has only one eye and with all his Ninja training one would think he would prefer to use a Shiriken Star with many small blades assuring a lethal penetration in a facial hit. But that's just from a guy who gave up on throwing knives and went to throwing Stars because I got tired of bending over to pick up knives that didn't stick in my target.Dance refuses to take a chance disarming a bomb on his secretary but thought nothing of quickly attempting to disarm the villains WMD to save a school auditorium full of  people.Finally,my employment was such that I escorted Japanese business men all over the United States. I met many different individuals over ten years and everyone of them was as serious as an ER  physician working on a cardiac arrest patient.But our author has a Japanese Sensei giving a bit of philosophical advice to Dance as he departs his Dojo. He quotes a famous Zen Master, Yogi  Berra  "When you come to a fork in the road take it"'  That was so lame I almost stopped reading at that point but I snuggled my helmet down knowing it was gonna get worse.  And it did.I plowed thru this book taking each gaff in stride thinking that perhaps the author might read this review and take interest in some helpful criticism.  Research. Proof read.  Edit.This book was way too long. Full of implausibles. The author should stick to writing about his personal experiences and things he is very familiar with.Two stars the effort made.Rshepherd  Navy Vietnam Veteran