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Feb 01, 2012
Death For Sale: The Price? Your Soul.
I purchased this book to fill out my collection of Deutermann's novels. A writer of many excellent "thriller" type novels, usually revolving around the U S Navy and clandestine governmental (and supra-governmental) organizations, Deutermann takes this novel into realms heretofore unexplored (by PTD) with a somewhat supernatural turn of events.
Well written with high-octane action from beginning to end. The characters are well drawn and believable, the plot unhurried yet non-stop.
The story: A small-time bureaucrat steals a bio-weapon to sell to a clandestine international weapons dealer and begins a chain of events that results in the sale price being his soul.
A terrific read and a plot departure from a must-read author.
Feb 01, 2010
Rage of Slater: WW III as a literary hook
If average is dumb... well. This entire series (now up to eleven books, "Rag" being number two) gives every indication that it was written by a mildly gifted (or simply highly obsessive) twelve-year-old and then edited by an incurious spell-check program. Names, facts and plot all seem quite changeable as the books proceed (I am reading number six) on an inexorable march to, well, the next book.
There is no need to be bothered with either fact checking or continuity on the part of the reader because they have been largely ignored by the writer.editor of this series. Names change from book to book as do ranks. It seems that skill-sets are presumed to carry-over from say, being an F-14 pilot to piloting a B-52 with no training time. Or from paratroopers trained at Camp LeJeune to SAS command in a few weeks. Or for a forty year old nuclear submarine commander to leading a SEAL team on a secret mission.
Plots are also pretty much the same from book to book. Enemy makes surprise attack. Enemy uses spies/saboteurs who are in place to wreak havoc on the heroes nations. All work to perfection. Allied forces are subjected to devastating enemy attacks. All allied secret plans are ferreted out and countered by the enemy. All enemy secret plans and sabotage work to perfection. In the last, perhaps, quarter or fifth of the books everything comes together for the allies. Thanks to the heroic actions of a few ongoing characters. The enemy is overcome and as victory raises her flag.... The enemy sues for a cease-fire and the allied politicians immediately grant it. The allies forget & forgive any and all of the perfidious and inhumane acts committed by the enemy and then quiescently await the next inevitable attack (read attack=book).
War as the heroic-minded pre-teen might imagine it. "Sex" scenes thrown indiscriminately into the mix in the hopes of a movie contract. Good luck.
The best thing about this series is that it is a quick and easy, light read, with lots of not-easy-to-believe action, with continuing characters. I like continuing characters. And there are nearly no typos. Even given contextual-typos I can only recall one in five books. Nearly two thousand pages. On the other hand there was no human editor at work here either. The inconsistencies, dropped story lines and general lack of fact-checking are pitiful.
Suspend all belief, ye who enter here. And enjoy.
Nov 03, 2008
In Action
This excellent little book is part of a series that documents not only armored vehicles but aircraft and ships from around the world, from WW1 to the present. It supplies historical information about the weapon (In this case the Pz38(t), an indispensable part of the German Panzertruppe during the early years of the Second World War and the "Blitzkrieg" in Poland, France and in the East.), its development and employment in the field. Loaded with pictures, both line drawings and photos and explanatory text these are highly useful little reference books that belong in any military history library.