Review: Can Pug hold a job for more than a couple of chapters?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2011
Another Beta tester here:  I was somewhat disappointed in To Faithfully Execute.  I loved the first two books in this series:State of Rebellion (A Pug Connor Novel)andUncivil Liberties (A Pug Connor Novel #2), giving them 4 star reviews.  I was really getting into To Faithfully Execute for most of the book, but the ending seemed to disappoint me.  I guess it was Pug Conner constantly changing jobs/gears in the same book.  He starts off as a Marine General as part of a goverment team assigned to handle secret missions involving terrorists.  I enjoyed the Rainbox Six aspect of this part that involved Pug and Carlos taking out bad guys anywhere in the world.  Very well handled.  Then Pug gets invited into a secret global civilian organization bascially doing the same thing, but without goverment ties.  This forces Pug to resign, for the good of the service and so on.  But then Pug took over the private securtiy firm that was causing most of the trouble in the 2nd book (Hoover Dam anyone?) and in the beginning of the 3rd book.  We really didn't get to see Pug do more than set things up before he switched gears again and accepted a job with the Republic of Western America as a Marine General.  But how can that be?  He was a General in the United States of America's service, not the Western Republic.  I got lost figuring out who Pug was suppose to be and whose side he was on at the moment.  We really did not see much of Carlos in the latter third of the book.  And President Snow came off the worse for the wear in this one, as compared to the great job he did in Uncivil Liberties.  He kept making empty threats he could not or would not back up.  Kinda wasted his role in this one.Oh well, "In for a penny, In for a pound" as they say.  I will give the next book a try, to see where Gordon takes this series.  But IMHO this was the weakest of the series, and Uncivil Liberties was the best (tough to beat out the beginning and ending of that one), just edging out State.