Review: Interesting thriller in Iraq
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
The MP-5 team as imagined by Mr. Sargent is highly capable of operating semi-independently, with only occasional communications back to Langley.  They have their own IT specialist, a doctor, and of course some tough operators with guns.  This volume drew portraits of Iraqi individuals and even families pulled into a conspiracy that the team slowly pieces together.  The initial, gruesome discovery of a mutilated American soldier is a bit of a red herring, but contains the first clue.  Mr. Sargent and the MP-5 team have nothing but disgust for the "idiots", i.e. terrorists, as opposed to the finely described Iraqi citizens who are so often their victims, and this is refreshing.  The deeper mystery I will leave to you to discover, but it is mostly evident by the mid-point of the book.  This is an excellent thriller series and well worth reading.