Review: What Tom Clancy would have written if gravely concussed
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 22, 2013
The book started off fine. Good storytelling, interesting characters, and then it went off the deep end. At least a third of the story is a solid chunk of passive voice telling a montage. It read like story beats from a brain damaged Dan Brown novel without the subtle nuances. Then it just got absurd.I could go on about the crappy writing, the confused tenses, and the silly protagonist who is an action hero computer genius who predicts the world wide web, or the ridiculous generals that would make Dr. Strangelove blush but will stop and leave you with the final bit where the president is described as having an android phone and then immediately answers his iPhone. It was then I knew the author quit caring about the same time I did.