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Avg. Rating: 2
This is awful.
I don't think I have ever read any other books by this author, and I'll make sure not to do so in the future. I have slogged through the first 120 pages of this "novel", mostly because I kept hoping that it couldn't possibly stay *this* bad. And then it has gotten worse.
The characters are horrible, the dialog is stilted, the info dump is horribly managed. Out of the 120 pages mentioned above, perhaps 15 contain actual story. The rest is a list of names of people and tech with detailed capability explanations that would probably work better in a manual, and made my mind go blank every time I had to deal with one.
The whole situation with Boomer and Frenchy made me roll my eyes and stare at the pages with disbelief.
Do yourself a favor, and stay far far away.
Technowar Turner Diary
I am not sure what Dale Brown is trying to accomplish here. This novel is pure trash. Brown turns his previously honorable characters into murderous traitors because they think the NCA is wimpy. Brown glorifies what any sane person would recognize as a nightmare scenario.
To paraphrase Elliott Ness in The Untouchables, his heroes have forsworn themselves; have broken every law they have sworn to uphold; have become what they beheld; and are content that they have done right.
Bad Military Fiction
In Shadow Command, Dale Brown successfully mixes two genres: bad military fiction and bad science fiction.
A Keeper
My husband loved it. We are currently packing up some of our books to make more room and this one is one that is staying out. That is very very high praise.
An unfinished Novel
This is my second Dan Brown novel that I have read in the recent years. I would love to say that this was a great book full of action and adventure and the technical gadgetry of the last book that I read. However, this book is just horrible. My biggest problem is with the ending of the book. I won't give away the ending, but Dan Brown asks the readers to imagine the last 5-6 chapters of the book without going into specific detail on how the ending came to be. Literally, you read the 3rd to last chapter and the next chapter you read skips ahead about 5 chapters. You have no idea what is happening or why. Either the editor cut this out or Dan Brown didn't want to finish this one. Either way save your money, there are better books.
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