Liberia (Joint Task Force, Book 1)

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Summary: David Meadows the new Clancy
Review: This book cannot be put down, I read it in one day, how does one writer keep getting better. Captain Meadows does it and his Sixth Fleet series was Four OH!

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Summary: Great plot idea, weak dialog
Review: This book has an ingenious plot, and grips the reader's attention. The geopolitical situation is all too believable, and the characters are reasonably well fleshed out. The technology isn't as well presented as, say Tom Clancy's, but few authors can do what Clancy does. The weakest link in the chain is the dialog: several of the characters are given the same cliches to repeat again and again. So the admiral tells us, not once but a hundred times, that he doesn't consider unmanned aerial vehicles to be true airplanes, nor their operators to be pilots. One of those operators is a smartmouth young woman who can't stop her puerile sexual wisecracking even when combat discipline would have any real military officer paying serious attention. The admiral and his chief of staff, and the besieged, retired general and his retired sergeant major, repeat the same banter again and again. It doesn't detract from the fun of the book, but it is irritating and does break the mood, just a bit.

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Summary: CAPTAIN MEADOWS TRIUMPHS AGAIN
Review: This new Joint Task Force series is even better than the Sixth Fleet series! Everything you want and expect: realistic characters, meaningful geopolitical scenario, technical accuracy, great villains, the works. You can always count on David E. Meadows to make you feel you're right their in the story, smelling the gunsmoke, feeling the raw fear, sharing the desparate courage of people in real-life combat. Can hardly wait for #2 in the series to come out!