Review: Ignore the cover, this is a brilliant book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2012
I don't often review the books I buy on my Kindle, but I'll make an exception here.First, don't be fooled by the book cover: the author should seriously spend some money getting a good cover designed. I'd baulked at buying this book before due to the cover (lets face it, it's amateurish at best) but after being continually recommended it by Amazon I purchased it.There are reviews here that say that Invasion: Alaska is as great at the early Tom Clancy novels. I can confirm that they are right.This is vintage Clancy (and perhaps at times better), with some excellent near futurism chucked in.The storyline is believable, the characters compelling, and the picture is painted perfectly: while there is plenty of military jargon included, it's all well explained and makes perfect sense.Without giving away the ending, I'd love to see a sequel set in this universe, and I'll be definitely looking for future works from the author. Can't recommend this highly enough.