The Barrabus Raid

The story here is pretty good with a simple mission to recover a smuggled technology out of Latvia nestled in a bigger plot with a spy in then Soviet controlled Riga, with the villain's ties to him, Barrabas's past, and the stolen tech. The action in this book is few and far between, but at least the story was interesting enough to carry the reader along for the whole ride. I would have rated the book higher if the ending had been climactic or action packed, but it pretty much is flat and brief. I did like the setting for it's time, back before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and a decent depiction of the struggles of the Latvian people are presented. A character from Barrabas's past is included, not really essential to the plot, but nevertheless added some spice to the story. While I liked the book, it might not be exciting enough for the average reader of this series, so up to you if you want to give it a try.

This authors last crack at a title in this series and probably a good decision from whoever made it. Once again the author has produced a readable title where the plot and story line are ok to good add in some good characters introduced and you should be reading a good title but unfortunately like the previous offerings of his everything leads up to a squib fall flat ending. This time around the Russians have managed to purchase through intermediaries the US system for protection from incoming enemy aircraft and are pulling it apart to reverse engineer it to incorporate the system into their own defences. The SOB's task is simple go and get it back failing that destroy it before those nasty Russians can figure out how it works. Again it should have been a good read but falls flat at the short end. Action adventure is what we are supposed to be reading here folks but nothing to recommend here compared to previous titles in the series.