Review: A Red Storm Rising for the Next Generation
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2013
With the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the War on Terror, the technothriller and military genre has gotten away from fiction about large-scale combat in favor of more cozy combat. There have been few epic modern war stories like Clancy's Red Storm Rising and Coyle's Team Yankee. As a long-time fan of the genre, I'm happy to say that Vaughn Heppner has produced a new classic. Heppner's Invasion series, Invasion: Alaska and Invasion: California, are awesome reads, with strong and believable characters, fingernail-biting tension, excellent description, and sharp dialogue. Although set in a future some 20 years away, it feels as if the events are contemporary. Anyone who has missed Clancy and Coyle in their heyday will be thrilled with these books and, like myself, glad to rediscover what it feels like to anxiously await a sequel.