Review: Happy doesn't disappoint
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2014
This one starts off with Shae Tomlinson.Tomlinson is an ex Army pilot. She flew little birds in Iraq and Afghanistan. She also survived a crash and a return to her airbase with the help of Brett Morgan. A Morgan who wants to recruit her for his new team. A team of folks who answer to no one but themselves. A team like no other.Civilian life hasn't been kind to Shae. Her brother has caused the confiscation of the  family ranch with his need for drugs. Drugs he was cooking at that ranch.Her Father has alzheimers and her mother is dead. Shae has drifted from one job to another and has had run ins with the law. Shae has absolute disgust for drugs and druggies.Morgan knows all this but wants the best pilot he's ever seen on his team.Reed Maddox is an ex Captain in the British SAS. A highly trained operator.  A man who left the army after finally heeding his wifes demands. A wife who then left him taking his two boys with her. Boys who he found out weren't really his. She left him for the Father of the two boys.Things got so bad for him that he pawned his Victoria Cross, an award thats the British equivalent to the Congressional Medal of Honor. An award not given lightly.Maddox got hooked on heroin and had run ins with the law. He's clean now and doing his best to stay that way.Maddox is very soft spoken. His best and probably only friend is Havoc.Havoc is a highly trained Belgion Malinois military war dog. A dog who has seen combat.Havoc is a friend Maddox is having a lot of trouble taking care of.Maddox works under the table at a kennel swamping out the runs. The pay is practically nothing and the kennel owner sees Maddox as a loser plus and has no problem shorting him on pay. Something he knows Maddox can't complain about.  Maddox has been wondering  how long he and Havoc will be able to stay together.Maddox is in the park with Havoc and is approached by Color Sgt. Reginald MacDonald. MacDonald is an old friend. He and Maddox served together.MacDonald introuduces Maddox to Brett Morgan. Morgan wants to recruit Maddox and Havoc for his team. Morgan knows all about Maddox's troubles but still wants Maddox because he knows how brilliant Maddox is with explosives and dismantling IED's. Brett needs an explosives expert to replace Wolfgang Krueger who was killed in Pakistan making sure the rest of the team made it out. A Krueger who's sacrifice is deeply mourned by his teammates.So begins one really great read.This one has friends, enemies, training, a Maddox who is working to get back in shape and is seeking acceptance by the whole team including Shae who has no use for druggies, a plot to blow up the Hoover dam, an Irish bomb maker, death, destruction, murder, attempted murder, jihadists, a US Govt trying to stop the team, a US Govt that can't see the forrest for the trees, a US Govt that views the team as the enemy, and a group of operators like no other. A group of operators who will do whatever it takes to protect America. A group of operators that could care less what the Govt and the Clowns in Govt think.One super read and well worth those five stars.