Review: The scenario is entirely believable
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
This was one good read.John Raider is an ex US Navy SEAL.Raider was a great SEAL who worked with a great team. He ran into just about anything and everything as a SEAL.Civilian life was one big shock for him especially when his wife wanted a divorce. When his wife didn't want John near "her" daughter. A wife who made sure she got custody and allowed John only one visit a month.Of course his ex, Malaya, was an attorney. An attorney who worked for a high powered group of attorneys. This was how she was able to get things her way. She's now trying to get sole custody of Abigail, Johns daughter and Raider doesn't have the money it would take to fight her.This drove Raider into drinking and fighting and he had a hard time getting anywhere or doing anything until his old teammate John Nguyen found him. He got Raider dried out and into a profession he loved, photography.Raider now is a photojournalist who travels the world on assignments.Raider is in the Ukraine for The Dragan Foundation and takes pictures of the murder of and old couple by Ukranians. A couple who had a store. A store that was looted after the old couple were butchered. Raider is pissed that he can't do anything to stop the murders. He can only catalogue them and send the pictures on to the police and see if any kind of justice can be achieved. He highly doubts it though.John also caught a couple of men on camera that he recognized from his SEAL days in Iraq and Afghanistan. Orlov and Minnion.  Two men who seemed to be the masterminds of the butchery. Two men Raider would never forget.On return to the States he meets with his long time friend and former teammate John Nguyen.John wants him to go on a mission with him to the Ukraine. Raider thinks he's nuts about wanting to go the Ukraine. A Ukraine thats practically a war zone. Nguyen has told him he needs loads of money to pay for cancer treatments for his wife. His wife is someone Raider knows well so he understands that Nguyen has to go. He just hates the fact that Nguyen will be going alone as he couldn't contact any of his old teammates. Men who would have gone with him.Raider then goes with Nguyen to meet his boss, the billionaire Dragan who owns and runs The Dragan Foundation. Dragan also tries to pursuade Raider to go but Raider has to many things going on in the States. Chief among them is his upcoming court battle over his daugher. John Nguyen goes by himself.So begins one really good read.This one has the hunt for Nguyen who's missing, the two men who killed the old folks in the Ukraine, old folks who are related to Dragan, a Russian hating Dragan,  Al and Wait former teammates of Raiders, Raiders girlfriend Angelina Blass who lands in the whole mess through no fault of her own, death, destruction, murder, attempted murder, the attempted assasination of the Russian President, Raider trying to stop that assasination, an old ally who turns out to be the sniper, a less than honest Dragan, Dragans right hand man in the Dragan Foundation,  a plot to turn the Ukraine into a buffer state for Russia, Urkrainians fighting pro Russian forces and one super ending that takes place on a hospital roof. Just one awesome read.Five Stars and then some.