Review: Great but seriously needs editting
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 19, 2011
This is another great book from Mr. Sands, dealing with terrorists and marines. The main character was a Marine pilot turned astronaut, who due to an accident crash lands and gets into a situation more dangerous then one he experienced many years prior. With well defined characters, a beautiful woman, spies, terrorist and lots of action this is a great story.I had no problem with the story. However, this is Mr. Sands third book (I think) and all three are laid out identically. Each has the current actual story intermixed almost every other chapter with a flashback to a another prior story in the main character's past. I am not a big fan of flashbacks, I would almost rather have the two stories split apart, particularily where having the character flashback does not cause him to remember something pertinent/useful to the current story. In his "Faithful Warrior" book the main character at least recalled a current bad guy from his past. Also like his other 2 books, this one needs editting. I downloaded my copy only 2 days ago, so this has to be the latest copy, but this has many more errors then the other 2 books combined. Just using spell check in Word would have caught a quarter of the errors and Word's grammer check would have flagged another quarter. Hopefully a good edit of the book would have caught most of the rest of the errors.I really enjoy his character Kharzai, who shows up in all three of his books. I think Mr. Sands needs to write a book about Kharzai's start and rise in the CIA.