Review: WELL, THIS ONE KEPT ME QUITE ENTERTAINED FOR SEVERAL HOURS...I personally could not ask for more
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 16, 2012
First, I note that this work has been criticized because it is need of proof reading and editing.  These are from older reviews.  I just finished the book and to be quite frank while I did find some minor typos here and there they were rather minor but to be quite honest, I found more of this sort of thing in the last Dan Brown book I read than I did in this one.  I suspect that the author has cleaned the text up from when it was first published.  The errors I did note were not (to me) in the least bit distracting.Secondly, a lot of folks did not like this work due to credibility.  And this is a valid point - no doubt about it.  On the other hand I have never read an action/adventure/thriller that came anywhere near being 100 percent credible.  Hey, I read all the James Bond books back in the 50s and 60s...talk about credibility gaps!  No, this is a work of fiction.  Actually, it is fiction that boarders on fantasy.  Personally this is what I look for in this sort of read.  It I want to read about everyday life; life as it is, I will read a good and well researched biography or indeed, simply leaf through pages of my old diaries that I have been keeping for around 60 years now.  This is purely escape fiction.  As you contemplate whether or not to read it, think "Mack Bolan."  The body count in this one is high and the likelihood of the scenario used in this work...well, it ain't going to happen. Although I have to tell you that the premise of the book was excelltnt in my opinion.  This, for me anyway, is why I read such works...escapism and fantasy.I won't go into minute plot detail here...that is not really reviewing but will tell you that this simply is the I note that this work has several rather negative reviews. (For a good plot review it is noted that there are a number of other reviews here that cover that aspect quite well).  I read those reviews and each of them make valid points.  I think the problem here is the way this work has been marketed.  Folks down load this work expecting one thing and are rather shocked and disappointed when it is not what they are expecting.  Now this is a genre that I normally avoid but as it came highly recommended by some one whose opinion I respect I thought I would give it a shot.  Yes this book does have a few problems here and there but many of those problems are not particularly actually "problems."story of a woman and her children who are put in grave danger (we are talking being murdered in cold blood) by a very large group of very bad people. An former FBI agent, specialized in all kinds of survival techniques and a warrior, has been hired to protect the woman and her two children.  He must keep them alive for 72 hours as the really, really bad guy, who is on death row, has put a multimillion price tag on their heads.The only portion of the book that I did not like is that I was unable to even begin to like the woman and her two children and actually almost found myself cheering the bad guys on. But hey, that was a very minor problem for me.Now is this book for everyone?  Of course not!  I will tell you though that once I read the first chapter I was unable to put the book down until I had finished it which made for a very, very late night with little sleep, but since I am retired and have no visible function in this world, the loss of sleep the next day was no big deal.  There was a lot of violence in the book.  There were a lot of very unlikeable characters and the main protagonist, the former FBI agent, was as dumb as sled tracks at times but not as stupid as the regular FBI agents found in the book.  Never-the-less the action was fast and furious, the body count was good and the author has a wonderful ability to write gun battles and fight scenes.I was entertained for several hours with this read...what more could I want?Don BlankenshipThe Ozarks