Book Review Tom Clancys Endwar (Book three) The missing

hello all
while still feeling pretty bad about the passing of tom clancy i happened upon this book and bought it, let me say i am a big fan of these books and think the paint a pretty accurate picture of how future warfare could happen.

The first thing you will notice that while it bears Tom Clancy's name he did not write it, Peter Telep did and he does a magnificent job of doing so. The action scenes are great the spy versus spy scenes are full of tension and the techniques would be the same as used by military of today's and he explains alot of the military technologies in the book and where they come from, and you can very much tell when a technology is a euro or American or Russian tech.

most of the characters from the previous books are back along with some new one, and the old characters have evolved a bit Like Halveson and Macallen, and the snow maiden. Also the new characters are given alot of depth and you feel connected to them and feel their hurt and their triumphs like your own.

Another good thing about this book is that he looks back to some of the things that happened in the previous books but in such a way that you dont have to have read the books to understand it but if you did it will mean more to you.

there are a couple of bad points, first off i didn't like the ending i think it could have been done better, secondly there are times where the Military tech can get a little outlandish especially with the UAV and the Rods of God space platform. Also the bad guys are so cliche i believe he could have found another bad guy o at the least not make the bad guy two dimensional

Still this is a great book and while i am nit picking it will get you more so if you have read the first two books or even the ghost recon books this is definitely a good buy.

7 out of ten

Iron Man 3 Blu Ray review

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Recently i got the first blu Ray in Marvel's Phase 2 series of movies Iron man 3. Fist off let me say this is a good movie, not great good. Fist off let me say that the extras on the disc are well worth it, the Agent Carter one shot is very well done and adds a little to what happened after captain america was frozen. The features and gag reels are well done and very enjoyable but you can definitely see why they were not included in the movie. The sneak peeks of Thor the Dark World and Iron man and Hulk is a nice add on and the overall feel of the Blu ray is well done.

The movie is good, but after a couple of viewings you can definitely see that they were trying to replicate the darkness of The dark knight Trilogy of films, that aint Iron man and while the ending and the secret ending are good and are worth the price of the Blu ray they could have done better and not try to replicate what Christopher Nolan did but instead go with the vibe of the first two films but add a little darkness to it. Still though this is a good movie and if you are a marvel fan or a fan of the avengers where this picks up from then this is definitely a movie to buy.

7 out of ten stars

Goodbye Tom Clancy

Just a little bit ago i had heard Tom Clancy my Favorite author and author of such books as Red Storm Rising, Hunt for Red October, Clear and Present Danger, Net force and many others has dided in a Baltimore hospital. I am truly saddened by this and my heart and prayers go out to his family. my Favorite book of all time was the book red storm rising he wrote it was a very good book and the first paperback book i read that wasn't from star wars. It was compelling, exciting and incredible and even to this day i still read it. He was a great american author one who will be sorely missed, and i only hope that there will be someone else to take up the mantle he laid down and continue the tradition Tom Clancy started.

Goodbye Tom Clancy thanks for the great stories