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
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