Review: Home Grown Nut Job Killer Baffles Home Land Security
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2012
"With a Vengeance" is aptly titled. But, if you're like me, the structure of the story will confuse you significantly. About 40% through the story, the entire focus of the narrative switches to an extremely detailed background of the primary character, Hunter James, and his well over the top training as a contract killer-assassin-vengeance provider.Thus, as one reviewer has already pointed out, the first 1/3 of the book and the last 1/4 of the book contain the actual story, whereas the entire middle section is quite simply another story that stands on its own. I nearly deleted the story from my Kindle many times while reading that middle section, because the author did not return to the primary story, until it was almost too late.The really scary thing about this novel is its ring of truth. The message is this: some of our biggest worries and dangers as a nation lie not outside the USA but entirely within our borders and perpetrated by good-old Americans. Here we have a true home grown nut job whose demented mission in life it to kill and frighten his fellow Americans. Yes, there is the usual right (read "wrong") wing gun-and-knives sect blather, a bit too much for my liking, especially since there is no balance to the vitriol spewed by these crazies.  One reads a story like this and is instantly transformed into a person who sees the need for much more oversight and control on those who sell guns and knives.If you can tolerate chilling murder, endless pages about knives and how to kill someone, then this book is your cup of tea. If you read it, as I did, as a possible true scenario, then you might also enjoy it. But remember, it's fiction, and as such all that anti-everything-but-Americans is just that - fiction. There is a distinct pattern to Wynne's writing that I've noticed after reading 2 or 3 of his novels. The philosophy remains the same, just the characters and story line changes. I had to suspend disbelief many times to keep myself reading to the end. It's a good story, but ...... technical problems abound.Due to the problems I had with the structure of the book, I downgrade my rating to a 3 even though the main story deserves a 4.