Review: Forget G.I. Joe there is a new American hero and his name is Capt. Jack Bass!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
Jack Bass is the ultimate cross between John MacLean and Hawkeye from M*A*S*H this book steps on the decelerated from the very first page and never lets up. The opening sequence takes place in a Panama field hospital at the center of the unpleasantness of that region and the world. In the 1980s, we first meet Capt. Bass in an operating room where he is on the "horn" (field telephone) trying his damnedest with all the powers of persuasion at his disposal to get a qualified surgeon to his A.O. (area of operation) to perform emergency explosive ordnance removal (that's right you heard me!!). There is a young soldier in the middle of the hospital with an unexploded RPG (rocket propelled grenade), embedded in his chest! The slightest movement could cause the device to explode and annihilating the entire hospital and the vast majority of an operating military compound.Capt. Bass finally manages to get the appropriate officer on the phone only to have to chain with his female Chief of Staff whom he happens to be sleeping with (at that very moment no less) the officer in question grudgingly makes his way to the hospital. Under the threat that if he does not Capt. Bass, and his chief nurse are going to make a request higher up the chain of command when the officer finally arrives, he is in boxer shorts,  terry cloth bathrobe and drunker than Kentucky moonshiner the night of a full moon. So Capt. Bass has to perform an RPG ectomy himself with the aid of this chief nurse Lori Darden Capt. Bass manages to remove the RPG successfully saving the young soldiers life only to have victory swallowed by tragedy as the young EOD technician (explosive ordnance disposal). Responsible for removing the explosive device from a hospital trips over an exposed tree root, causing the bomb to explode and in his life.At this point, you would think that the scales of karma would balance and that things would work out smoothly for Capt. Bass and major Darden unfortunately they do not, shortly after this incident, Capt. Bass becomes a scapegoat for a psychotic sadistic, commanding officer, who blames Jack for his own ineptitude Jack quickly learns that this man will stop at nothing to crush him. While furthering his own military career, and hiding a closet full of insanely wicked skeletons cloaking dirty secrets. Capt. Bass must not only fight for himself but for Major Lori Darden as well, to protect not only their lines but their blossoming love. Capt. Bass becomes involved in a world of cover-ups, backstabbing politics, government corruption and mystery and the more he learns the more he realizes the chain of command is broken. And he's the only one that can fix it. But how far is he willing to go?...Anyone that is a fan of military or medical thrillers will certainly love this book is definitely worth the requisite amount of coveted space on your Kindle without question Edwin Dasso has done it again. Within other thrilling installment of "Jack Bass, Black cloud Chronicles."