Review: Rambling mega story about power, greed and narcissism
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2013
I found the book a bit hard to follow, there were so many topics, so many sub-plots and so many characters to try and keep straight that I was bogged down.  I wasn't sure if the book was trying to make a statement about the corruption of Politics, the corruption of the FBI and other policing agencies or the corruption of religion and the media.  Everyone took a shot.The story has us in the future and we are brought in as a new Federal Policing agency is launched to give oversight and provide investigative powers over all other federal policing agencies.  It would be like taking the FBI, TSA, Homeland Security, DEA and maybe even the CIA and rolling them altogether to try and weed out the corruption and the vice and bring honesty and integrity back to the front.Along with that is a narcissistic religious nut who wants to dominate the world and make himself the only governing authority.  He has followers that are truly dumb sheep following a deluded sheep.There are a couple of heroes in the story, River his wife Eddy and a Montana State Trooper, Mark Briggs.  Mark can't be bought, neither can River.  They find each other in this rambling saga and join together to try and rescue the world from all the crazies.I wanted to enjoy the book very much, but it jumped around the stories too much and maybe the biggest issue for me was that the Religious Nut was just a bit too over the top with his rantings and ravings for me to believe that anyone would have taken him seriously.  I mean, really, the man jumps on his desk, knocks everything off, flaps his arms and makes his followers claim that he is flying, really, most people would call him insane and write him off.  But this maniac will try and dominate the world and might just pull it off.  The followers, well they follow because he is making them millions of dollars, so greed wins out.As you read this book keep a piece of paper handy and write down the characters and track them through the storyline so that you have a good idea of what is going on at all times.  If one section gets a bit boring and your frustrated just hang on and you'll come back to a section you like a bit better.