Review: Follow this alternate-history author
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2012
This is an author you need to follow.  For fans of alternate histories, this is a must read series of books.  In Castro's Bomb, the author trasports you to the tumultuous time of the Cuban Missle Crisis.  Only this time, Guantanimo Bay Naval/Marine Base is invaded, sucessfully.  What follows is a fun ride for the reader.  I'd rather not give any plot twists away.Suffice to say, you'll enjoy the read.While many of the reviews on Amazon "nit-pick" every slight detail, and I can agree that when an author gets his facts and figures wrong on simple details, especially military hardware and weapons, it can interrupt the verisimilitude (willing suspension of disbelief) and ruin an otherwise good book.  This is especially an irritation to old soldiers such as myself.However, few authors today have the breadth of knowledge, or on Amazon, a team of editors to fact check this stuff, not that all editors catch it regardless.Conroy gets it right, more than not, and weaves a tale that is both interesting and fun to read, with just enough plausibilty to keep all but the most nit-picking skeptics and fault-finders at bay.Buy the book, get plenty of sleep before you start reading as once you start, you really want to just keep reading, and pretty soon, like me, you'll have bought everything this guys puts out.You'll be happy you did.