That aside it is, to quote a friend of mine a "blaster" of a story and a real "rollercoaster" with some excellent twists. That said I don't particularly like violence, ok LotR has battles and whole armies get wiped out and Boromir got hit by a zillion Orc (Uruk-hai) arrows, but its not too graphical, whereas in places this was. Now I am not naive, I have been on this planet 59 years and 9 months now and I know there is horrendous violence occurring every second on my life somewhere in the world, but I have had only moderate exposure to it directly (try growing up in London and not be exposed to it (read beaten up)). In reality the only issue I have with the book (ignoring some of the stereotypes - and well you have to if you read this type of book) was the violence. I'm sorry Chris Ryan if I sound surprised but I hadn't really expected that in an SAS shoot em up ex war hero macho large gun (nudge nudge) book. I've been pondering this book on and off over the last couple of days and think the writing is actually very good. I think this just scrapes into the 4 star bracket courtesy of being rounded up from 3.5.Īnd so as night follows day, tomorrow arrived and went, and it is now 2 days later.
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