Seal Team Seven: Battleground (Special Warfare Series)

Rating:
Summary: Underwheming
Review: This is the first book I read in the "Seal Team Seven" series. I am a big fan of Douglass' work, though. I read the first installment in the "Carrier" series in which an American spy ship is captured off the coast of North Korea. Needless to say, I was hooked. Sadly, "Battleground" is nowhere near as good as Carrier. The action scenes are boring and become quickly repetitive. None of the characters are particularly interesting either. I found the action derivative of the standard action movie cliche in which the bad guys can't shoot to save their lives but the good guys score a hit every time. I was sorely dissapointed in the book and am glad I got out of the library for free.

Rating:
Summary: Underwheming
Review: This is the first book I read in the "Seal Team Seven" series. I am a big fan of Douglass' work, though. I read the first installment in the "Carrier" series in which an American spy ship is captured off the coast of North Korea. Needless to say, I was hooked. Sadly, "Battleground" is nowhere near as good as Carrier. The action scenes are boring and become quickly repetitive. None of the characters are particularly interesting either. I found the action derivative of the standard action movie cliche in which the bad guys can't shoot to save their lives but the good guys score a hit every time. I was sorely dissapointed in the book and am glad I got out of the library for free.

Rating:
Summary: Dime Store Novel
Review: While this book has a potentially interesting premise, it is illogicaly written (the bad guys are holding 160 US sailors in a prison, we aren't sure where - but lets crash in and shoot it up with the guards until we rescue the prisoners), (we need to rescue the hostages inside the captured embassey, so anyone who runs out we'll assume is a bad guy and shoot automatically), etc. Almost more embarrassing is the poor editing; Sea Knight helicopters become Sea King helicopters in the next paragraph, Major Mudodo becomes a Captain one paragraph later, the hero sends 'Bishop' to do something but 'Brown' reports back a few paragraphs later.