Review: Badly written by a very young amateur who doesn't know what he is writing about.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2014
The writing in this book is so bad that I wish Amazon had some way to award negative stars. I only gave it one star because doing so is required for posting a review, and I want to warn off anyone else who might be tempted to download this excuse for a book. If so my rating would be minus 5 (-5). His grammar is atrocious. He most certainly writes as if English were his second language and I have had foreign students who could have done a better job. If English is his native tongue then his English teachers should be ashamed of themselves. Also he really needed an editor to review it for vocabulary and spelling. His fantasies are mid-adolescent. I suspect he is actually a child about 13 or 14 and a virgin. He writes about the Islands - and clearly has never been there or if so it was fleetingly, perhaps a day or so as a tourist. Perhaps he simply looked at a map? By the way, there are only two harbors on Oahu, and only one of those really classifies as a "marina."  Also, it is not "slack guitar" but "slack-key." His spy craft is amateur to say the least. I recommend a LONG course of John Le Carre or, for that matter, of Barry Eisler who created John Rain. (Does Eisler know this guy is ripping off his character? Or is this an early book by Eisler? If so, he should take it down. It does his reputation no good at all.) At this point whoever put this sad excuse for a book up on Kindle owes me the cost of the book. If I could get my money back I would return it. I read it all the way through thinking it MUST get better, and it only got worse. I will not buy another of his works and in fact, I will not again buy any book on Kindle unless I am familiar with the author or have the recommendation of someone whose standards I really trust.