Review: Enjoyable if You Like This Kind of Novel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2014
This is the second book I've read from Col Hampton, and I found it to be fast-paced and easy to get lost in. I like the character of the "Mercenary" - a conflicted antihero as well as the characters in the team that is trying to find him.As in his memoir. Viper Pilot, Col Hampton makes no bones about his opinion of the modern Air Force and its shortcomings. This is not objectionable to me, since it's really widely shared among fighter pilots and is realistic. As a former Air Force pilot myself, I find myself agreeing with much of it.My only real complaint about the story is a certain "sameness" in the way the Mercenary deals with the people he has to kill. It got a little tiresome and the methods he uses would certainly have tied two widely separated incidents together for the investigators right away.I hope there is more fighter flying in his next book.