Helpful Score: 2
Have you read the other books in the series? Then Don't both with this. More than half the book is rehash of everything up till this one. In detail. Quite depressed about the trend that seems to be developing with all of Griffins new books.
I enjoy this entire series, lots of action, personalities, and comrad behavior.
I found it interesting. Not as much with the team and more with politics but interesting nonetheless
Good adventure/espionage story
When Griffin and his son began the "Presidential Agent" series, it introduced to us some very interesting characters that held a lot of promise. It is unfortunate that the series has bogged down, causing the authors to go fishing for a story line.
The first 45 pages of this book are given over, almost entirely, to background review of characters and their histories from previous books in the series. Once the story finally begins, every time a new character enters the room the "catching up" begins again, and we read the same dialog a half dozen times in slight variations. Toward the end of the book the story finally begins to move along. But this story would have been a few chapters in most novels.
Unless you have already been following this series, do not bother with this book. Instead go back to W.E.B. Griffin's "Brotherhood of War" or "The Corps" series', where the writing style still seemed fresh and the storyline and characters held your attention.
The first 45 pages of this book are given over, almost entirely, to background review of characters and their histories from previous books in the series. Once the story finally begins, every time a new character enters the room the "catching up" begins again, and we read the same dialog a half dozen times in slight variations. Toward the end of the book the story finally begins to move along. But this story would have been a few chapters in most novels.
Unless you have already been following this series, do not bother with this book. Instead go back to W.E.B. Griffin's "Brotherhood of War" or "The Corps" series', where the writing style still seemed fresh and the storyline and characters held your attention.
this is the 2nd series I've read by Mr. Griffin and Mr. Butterworth and they are all filled with intrigue and suspense right up to the last chapter.
I have read many of Griffin's books and like this one the least. When you read a book in his series, you know what you are getting into, the first third of the book will be a rehash of the previous books, and you know you are going to have to live with Griffin's style which, one assumes, he is being paid by the word. But the thing that stuck me about this episode is that not one character in the story came off as likeable. Our main characters have gone from dashing and witty to arrogant. Everyone in power, other than our hero, is dangerously inept. Flag level Officers that previously were shown to have little trouble walking on water now can not hold a civil conversation when dealing with matters effecting the safety of the US. Maybe after 30,000 pages or so of W.E.B.'s stuff, I've had enough.
