Review: OK but way out there in the plausibility arena
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
A freebie I got in the Kindle edition recently.I read the whole thing. Parts of it were pretty good, parts of it were just so implausible that it took away from the book for me.As self published works go, it was not bad in the writing error arena. Not much to complain about there.Its the story of a mercenary who went crazy during an African war and started exacting revenge for atrocities committed by rebels who were fighting the government forces. He eventually decides to quit the mercenary business and go to Scotland and become a gamekeeper.A nun he used to know calls him and asks for his help so he jumps on an airplane with stacks of $100 bills he conveniently has stashed away and goes back to Africa to exact revenge on some people who are kidnapping children from Catholic orphanages.He meets up with an old comrade who turns out to not quite be what he seems and starts rooting around trying to figure out what is going on.A priest who was formerly a sniper helps him along with a guard at the orphanage. The three heros have not been in combat for a number of years but pretty much pick right up where they left off.There is a fair amount of action but it is of the type where the hero gets shot multiple times and just shrugs it off because he is a super soldier.The premise had a lot of promise but the comic book style action took a lot away from what could have been pretty good.Even so, it is not a horrible book and if you like the genre as I do, you might enjoy reading the book.