Review: Good thriller.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 20, 2014
Note: I received a free Kindle copy of "The Survivor" free from the author to review. Not that it would affect my review opinion...."The Survivor" is about the campaign of Zeb Carter, a super mercenary action hero, who embarks on a vendetta to apprehend, or preferably kill, a mercenary gone very wrong named Holt. The action begins in the Congo Republic, where Carter is on a fact-finding mission to determine who is raping , killing and enslaving people to work in mines which the mercs have taken over for, yes, a big, evil corporation.Action moves from the Congo to the Catskills, from the dark streets of NYC to the glittering high rise offices of the CIA and FBI.There is plenty of super-dude action as Zeb and his friends play with their nasty weapons and hiTech electronics, and also plenty of testosterone venting male- bonding humor. It is kinda cliche city in "The Warriors"' but were are not expecting William Faulkner, right? What we want  - and get, in spades- is Action, almost non-stop. Not too much Shades of Grey here, things are black or white; the bad guys are really nasty, and the good guys, who are also really bad-asses themselves, but only for good causes. In fact they wouldn't hurt a bear ( you'll see what I mean in one of the books less creditable moments. You know,Davy Crockett grinnin' down a big ol' bear....)Oh, the seven-year old kid is necessary as a plot motive for action, but he is just so precocious it makes you wish....,, whoops, no spoiler moment, sorry."The Survivor" was written in the present tense, which doesn't appeal to me, but that is my personal preference. As far as descriptive passages, not much , just bare bones to set the scene, and the same is true for personalities. But the name of the genre is, after all, Action Thriller, and that is exactly what the reader is going to get in "The Survivor."The climatic fight is very well done, tense , brutal no-quarter combat-----and quite a surprise ending. No spoilers coming from me.Read it and find out for yourself.