Review: A Story Going Nowhere?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2012
First and most importantly, I just got on a computer and discovered this was book one.  Thunk!  Of how many books?  If you bought this on your little black and gray kindle, you weren't given this information because the small words "book one", only found at this time on the cover of the book, are not discernable to the human eye.So what was accomplished in book one?  The virus gets stolen from the Iraqi lab.  Jim Anders, who is a single man in college, gives us a peek into his sex and college life.  Yahoo.  Jim Anders enters the army, and he is afforded the opportunity to search for George W. Bush's Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, and he may have seen the aforementioned lab blown up.While nicely written nothing comes of it, it felt like a way to fill a book.  You are required to draw the lines between most all of the pieces.  And really, bad terrorists stole the bad virus from the bad Iraqi lab making WMD?  And the virus later gets used in the United States?  The WMD really had to be stolen?  Head thunk!  Maybe this will be an exciting element in book ten?  Lots of filler.Anders runs into bad men while hunting.  The virus is also being researched at a lab in the United States run by a friend of Anders.  Wow, Anders is just the focal point of so many coincidental details, and the coincidences just keep coming.  Finally at 35%, the apocalypse has arrived in Phoenix.At 62% Nicole and Jim Anders load up their 2 daughters and neighbor, Danny, and they head for a ranch in south Texas.  We never learn if they make it to the ranch.  Is it in another book?There is a ton of extraneous, inconsequential details.  If these were removed, we could have completed this story in ONE book.While the writing style is fine, this book can be summed up as filler.