Super#5: The Barrabas Sweep

The last book in the SOBs series. There is a terrorist network called The Realm taking more control in several European countries, and the SOBs are recruited one last time to put a stop to this threat. This book is much larger than it needs to be, like the super-sized one before it. I got the impression that the story could have been told in a regular 220 page format, but this one just dragged on and on before things finally got good at the end. Mediocrity was found too often in this book, as I was motivated by it being the last book more than the story itself to keep going. One of my favorite parts of this novel was Alex Nanos' undercover role at the arms company office, and I liked the villain called Ulrich, I thought he was written well. Overall there was too many acronym groups thrown in, sometimes it was as if the SOBs were not even needed, and too many factions in The Realm, this was to accommodate the larger book format, but it was more a curse than a blessing for this reader. The action at the end was very good, the final pages had me on the edge of my seat, but it was a little too much plodding along to get there, I'm only giving this book a six out of ten. So that is it, the series is over, and a wild ride it was. I highly recommend this series to anyone with the time to get into a 38 volume line, just be aware that there are a lot of writers on board after a while, and the quality consistency is questionable after book 22. There are many gems to be found in this series, have fun!

Well overall I would have to say the last title in the series was a little underwhelming in fact the last quarter earned it a couple of extra stars. HUGE book which is probably the main criticism TOO many things to try to keep in your mind when reading this. TOO many characters introduced TOO many divisions of terrorist fighting groups with fancy names from too many countries. The author has a pretty good go but I reckon he just fails to bring off a top read here which is a little disappointing as the last quarter action scenes are very readable but unfortunately too little too late. So overall now that the entire series has been read what do I think? So the Super size titles three eights, a seven and a five rated from me not bad reads all in all but nothing spectacular. The standard size titles two tens (both outstanding), six nines, eleven eights out of thirty three titles I would suggest you could do a lot worse than picking up this series to read. One thing that stands out for me when reading this series is in EVERY title you will read how the main character Nile Barrabas as a result of being shot in the head in Vietnam has a head of PURE WHITE hair. HUH ?????? What are the cover artists thinking when doing this series covers? You don't have to read a single title simply browse the covers from this series on the best site on the Net ;-) and you will see what? NOT BLOODY ONE picture of him with white hair? Most are Dark brown or Dark Grey a few black probably #31 comes the closest but wow to describe that as white is stretching it. Any way just an aside observation, good series of titles to get hold of and read I reckon overall I thoroughly enjoyed them.