Review: Keeps you guessing; great characters, good plotting
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2012
This writer is great.  I love the whole series.  The characters are fun, the humor 1st rate.  My background was Women's Army Corps, MI, and Army civil service during & after the Vietnam War period. Some things change over the years.  Entrenched bureaucracy & inter-service rivalries, self-absorbed "me first" mentality, hasn't changed.  Took me a while to realize that "the needs of the Army come first" was crap about 95% of the time.  (The needs of very senior ranking officers & politicians almost always came 1st @ junior enlisted/junior officer expense.)  Saw lots of medic-vacs coming home.  The lower ranking men/women were amazingly self-sacrificing.  How could anyone not respect what those guys\gals did & were willing to do--lie down one's life for one's country during a very unpopular war period.Some shocks will stay with us forever.  Pearl Harbor, nuking Japan, the Cuban Missal Crisis, the JFK & Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinations, 1st Gulf war, 9/11, etc.  I'm retired now.  Still love to read.  Don't be afraid to try an "unknown" writer now & then.  Some, like this one, are 1st rate.