I'm afraid this one wasn't so great. It started out all right, with the potential for twisting plots and intersting story lines, but none of it ever really comes together. Basically, terrorists steal a bunch of nukes, and attempt to use them to set off earthquakes. Since I'm not a geologist, I'm not going to comment on how plausible that plot device is.
Now, stealing nukes is by far no easy task. It would be an extremely complex operation, with involvement by many parties, both on the inside and out, and, in fact, the book pulls this off nicely. But that's about it.
By the middle of the book, everthing rushes together in an ambiguous way. There's a battle on Mamoth mountain, which was so confusing and choppy, I had to read it a second time to know what happened. Also, the tatctics used in the battle were sloppy and reminiscent of a GI Joe cartoon, not worthy of Able Team. The scenes after the battle were hard to put together too. This pattern continues for the rest of the book.
Underneath it all, I think there was a potential for an interesting story, but all those distractions brought it down.
Oh well, everyone writes a mediocre book every now and again. An artist can't pump out a masterpiece all the time.
I still like the author, though.
Cheers.
This one was slow to get going, I yawned several times during the first half of it. (really, I did). The plot was a complex one, with new characters introduced every few pages, in addition to most stony man farm personnel. It read at times like a Tom Clancy novel. The action was missing from most of the book, and the story wasn't as interesting as Renauld's earlier Able Teams, so I give it an average grade. Not the authors' shining moment.
