Review: Pretty darn good
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 22, 2013
Not much into the Novella's but since this one was free I got it.WOW Not disappointed at all.Lt. Jackson Pike is a Navy SEAL. He's a member of SEAL team 6. The best of the best.  He and his eight man team are sent in to get intel and to blow a suspected munitions dump site.He and his team make a HALO jump and are early to the site.When he and his team get there they find the place has already been hit by someone. The sentries are dead and the gates are open and any weapons stored there are gone.Lt. Pike and Chief Petty Officer Micheal Jones decide to go up onto a building rooftop to see what they can see.Once they get up high enough to see whats going on they find three idling trucks with guys loading them with what appears to be crates of weapons. The weapons they were sent to destroy.Pike and his men break into teams of two and head out to engage the enemy.Pike and Jones using rocket launchers affixed to the M4 carbines blow the first and third trucks. The explosion also blows the middle truck. Those weapons won't be going anywhere.Pike and his men are then in for a fight with forty well armed and very well trained troops. Not your average dirtbag jihadist fighter. A hell of a puzzle for Pike.The team is greatly outnumbered and taking casualties. Pike calls for air support. That air support lands almost on top of them.  Pike is struck in the head by debris and is knocked out.When Lt. Pike wakes up he's in the hospital at Bagram Air Force Base. His entire team is dead except for Petty Officer Jones. NCIS is also waiting to speak with him. Lt. Pike is under arrest for murder.Murder? Pike can't grasp that. Who the hell were he and his team supposed to have murdered??Pike lands in the brig at Norfolk, VA. He's awaiting a hearing.Pike  is attacked in the messhall. Pike defends himself and could have killed his attacker but didn't.Pike is then visited by a suite. This suite tells him to plead guilty to the charges or his wife and daughter will die. Pike is very afraid for his family.His attacker later committs suicide in his solitary confinement cell. Pike ain't buying that for minute one. Pike is getting the distinct impression that someone is behind the scenes and is reponsible for all thats happened. He just hasn't got a clue who.So begins a really good story. This one has Pike, Jones and the team as scapegoats for something else thats going on. We also have several murders, threats and one good man who stands up for whats right.Who's pulling the strings and who murdered the civilians and made sure Pike and his team would be blamed?Will surely be getting the next books in this series. Five Stars.