Strikepoint

Have to say I am in full agreement with MaxDanger here with this title and felt very little suspense whilst reading the first 3/4 of the title maybe boredom would be a better way of describing my feelings. Action/Adventure we are supposed to be reading here folks unless I am mistaken. Well apart from the MURDER of an unarmed Russian scientist in cold blood by Katz (I always liked the idea that the members of the Team's possessed that little bit extra which separated them from the savage's they are eradicating?) we have to wait until page 180 (not a typo) where McCarter takes out an assassin and then wait another fifty odd pages for something else to happen. So with a little over a hundred pages to go I was bored silly reading this. It finishes okay where the Team successfully insert into the compound and complete their objective. One star added here there is a very good character added who is a female Mossad operative tagging along with Mack. She carries her weight in the firefights AND she is not captured and held hostage nor is she killed off at the end of the title. I struggled through this and found it ordinary and could in no way recommend this for your reading unless you are reading the series in order as I am in which case you have no choice.

this is a good book for anyone just starting in the stoneyman series. it shows the versatility of each member of stonyman. it also has good use of current situations of the world...ie...the russian scientists paid off by the iraninans to build a weapon of mass destruction, and elements of the cod war era...which brings to mind the question...is the coldwar really over???

Saddam Hussein is trying to start a nuclear weapons program in Iraq with ex-Soviet bomb-builders. Stony Man tumbles onto the plan and launches an attack to intercept. Man, this one was bad. The action was super slow. In the first third of the book (over 100 pages) the only guy that gets killed by the commandos is a scientist. Tough fight there, NOT. Then there are problems with the writing. Dozens of pages are devoted to explaining how the team feels about working with ex-Soviets. Miraculously, they all feel exactly the same (can't trust them, but gotta trust them). But EACH and EVERY character goes through the SAME thought patterns. How tedious. And then there is the plot hole big enough to drive an APC through. Katz is supposed to double as a Russian scientist (who is, incredulously, also missing his right arm) and the rest of the team is to link up with him in Iraq. If the team can find the base on their own, WHY DID KATZ HAVE TO GO UNDERCOVER?!? He risked his life for no valid reason. Overall, the novel is slow moving and not up to standards. This one is disappointing and ridiculous. Don't bother.

I read this one during my backtracking. I missed Able on this one too. Would of been better with them. This is one of the weakest books in the Stony Man series. It didn't get going until page 200. I nearly put it down but decided to continue. A lot of loose ends on this one. But it is still a classic.

This was a change of pace for a Stony Man. I found it to be really suspenseful on board the train. Then later in the book, the action was very intense. I missed Able though.

I really enjoyed this book. It was a change of pace for Newton, and a very suspensefull novel. I didn't think it started slow at all, indeed, it built up steadily, engrossing you. I did manage to skip some of the passages with the villains, but really enjoyed the fact that Calvin James had been made the center of one of the four plot threads, and it was his mind/voice which Newton had gotten into. (Especially since Calvin's the Phoenix Forcer who I can most identify with, he's a Chicagoan and a Colt Commander fan too.) And Katz, even buck naked, is a dangerous dude.