Capitol Hit

A really so-so entry in the series. Some great action scenes, but the author doesn't do a very good job of explaining the plot. I couldn't understand what was going on a lot of the time, or even who were the good guys and who were the bad guys. After a while it was like watching a foreign-language movie without subtitles.

This is a gang war story that has Bolan in the D.C. area fighting against a variety of Jamaican drug rings. The book is loaded with action, so if that is all you want then maybe it is worth it to read, but I really didn't like this book. The general storyline is very simple, but there are so many little sub-plots going on everywhere that it was turned into a confusing mess after a while. Some of them came from nowhere and went nowhere. The villain from the New York gang was just not necessary, and Bolan even went to NY and did something there apparently, but this is only mentioned, and suddenly he is back in DC again. Bolan has a variety of allies, some helped some did not and later on there was no real reason Bolan was even needed in the final action scenes, which stunk anyway. I don't think that Albert Einstein himself could decipher the confusing and disjointed final action scenes on the sea. Crapitol Hit, as this book should have been called, just has too many flaws to be much of a gripping and enjoyable action thriller. Not all of it is bad, some parts were ok, but if you want a really outstanding inner-city drug-gang-war novel, read #148 Deep and Swift, and ignore Crapitol Hit. I was gonna give this book four stars, but because of that lousy last chapter and epilogue, I will rate this book a three.

Didn't like this one at all. The plot was ordinary and the Deacon Whaley character who is the drug lord was very weak. I couldn't really understand why the Vietnamese were in the title at all unless it maybe feeds into a future title where a favour owed by the CIA is used. Not one of the better titles of the series. my two bobs worth........

Not a very good novel. If the novel just stuck with the three Jamacan gangs it would have been ok. I do think instead of bringing in the NYer it would have made more sense for the Washington gangs to fully unit. I could also not quite figure out why the Deacons hit the Vietnamese airplane. What really was the purpose of creating a war between the two cultures? Never really explored. The good Jamacans seemed to have an IQ of 0. Well so didn't Mack for letting them join with him. These good guys were good hearted but untrained fighters basically a neighborhood patrol with guns. If they were former military ok but they weren't. Phung could have been an interesting character but we really knew 0 about him. Yeah he was honorable, "good", worked closely with the CIA but why? Actually I would have left him and the entire Vietnamese angle out. If the story just was based on gang wars with Mack sent in that would have been a better focus or at least explain in detail why the Vietnamese were hit at the beginning. Pitt was an ok character but I swear this character appears too often - a second in command who leads the villians troops and wants to always beat the big fighter but never does and has to explain it to the boss. A solid 5.

Not one of the better entries in the series. The story was very disjointed. It was confusing and hard to follow at times.

NOT ONE OF MY FAVORITES AT ALL.