Review: Interesting idea with slight overkill
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 17, 2013
This is a wild and woolly tale with plenty of fighting between bad guys (several groups), good guys, and guys merely caught in the middle. It began as a straightforward adventure with a plane crash along the coast of Alaska, then escalated into a science-fiction spy story. Sadly, despite an exciting beginning and middle, it became self-serving towards the end, when I could hear the author telling me to start looking for the sequel. a) I hate it when so many threads are left dangling you could weave a quilt out of them and b) by that point I was starting to get bored with all the killing, so c) I think I'll skip the sequels.Doug and Erin, the protagonists, end up on one of the Aleutian Islands after escaping from the downed plane. However, it seems that certain people have more or less taken over the island and will do anything to wipe out any witnesses to the crash. Doug knows that the story is much more complicated since he has been after these particular baddies for about a decade. We learn that they are trying to design an ultimate weapon which, while blowing up its target, can even cause ripples in space/time. Doug is determined to stop them unless they stop him first and luckily, legal-assistant Erin was taught to shoot by her daddy...Towards the end, the good guy/bad guy distinction gets a bit murky but the good guys survive, at least to book two. I'd actually rate it 3 1/2 stars if the system were to let me.