Review: A very good read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2011
This book earned 5 stars from me because I enjoyed it so muchIn some respects, it is a run of the mill spy versus spy conspiracy novel. Nothing really wrong with that genre if you like those kind of books and I do.Other reviewers had some minor criticisms, and they are valid, but overall they don't detract all that much from the enjoyment of the story.You won't be able to find more enjoyment for the $2.99 the Kindle edition costs if you are a fan of this genre.The surprise ending was a surprise to me until the end, even though in retrospect there were a fair number of clues along the way.Like most of this genre, you have to suspend disbelief a lot of the time to get through the book. But to me that is part of the fun. Much of the action can't happen, but it is well written enough that even though some part of my brain was saying "can't happen", I was still enjoying reading it, and almost believing.This is part 1 of a 4 book series on the organization known as "The Cellar". The Cellar is a super secret part of the NSA (at least its offices are physically located there) that tries to tweak things going on in the world to protect the USA.The author effective turns the Blackhawk Down story around some and adds some background details that makes one of the oddest military operations the US has engaged in understandable. I personally suspect just random stupidity is what really caused the disaster, but the author made his version quite plausible.Read and enjoy.