Rating: 
Summary: Major Let Down
Review: I must say I was disappointed by this book. I will always pick his work up but this one just did not have the punch I have come to expect. I give him credit, he does try to venture out and do new things but this one did not work. I would not spend too much time on this one and move to some of this other work.
Rating:
Summary: Not The Stephen Hunter I know and Love
Review: If you enjoyed Dirty White Boys or any of the Sniper books, give this one a miss. Starts off fine but the action tales off and the story is disjointed and contrived.If you haven't read the others, get to it, a great author who has had a bad day.
Rating:
Summary: Not The Stephen Hunter I know and Love
Review: If you enjoyed Dirty White Boys or any of the Sniper books, give this one a miss. Starts off fine but the action tales off and the story is disjointed and contrived. If you haven't read the others, get to it, a great author who has had a bad day.
Rating: 
Summary: Not Hunter's best, but one hell of a finish.
Review: In reading the other reviews of this book, I find it difficult to understand the continuing reference to great humor in the Second Saladin.Yes, there were some humorous moments, but moments were all they were.Hunter starts the book with a nice action sequence, but then things seem to settle down for longer than might otherwise be necessary or desirable. It was interesting to see the use of characters which appear in subsequent Hunter books such as Black Light, and the twists and turns at the end are worthy of Mr. Hunter's talents. My only problem with the book, as already alluded to, is the amount of time spent filling the middle of the book with plot elements which did little to advance the action or to maintain the reader's interest.Overall, a good read, but not up to Point of Impact or Hunter's other later works.
Rating: 
Summary: Weakest of Hunter's body of work.
Review: It's also one of his first novels, and at the time it
might've rated a little higher. However, he has far superior
offerings to acquire and digest before manically buying this
one to meet your Stephen Hunter fix. Oh, that was just me. Well, here's a nifty clue: not a sniper book.
And another: not "Dirty White Boys" either.
Rating:
Summary: Weakest of Hunter's body of work.
Review: It's also one of his first novels, and at the time it
might've rated a little higher. However, he has far superior
offerings to acquire and digest before manically buying this
one to meet your Stephen Hunter fix. Oh, that was just me. Well, here's a nifty clue: not a sniper book.
And another: not "Dirty White Boys" either.
Rating: 
Summary: "It ain't no dirty white boys"
Review: Pretty far fetched and jumps too much. The reading has thought gaps and it is the kind of book that you can put down and pick up much later just to finish it. Hunter has done much better work.
Rating:
Summary: Early Work
Review: The fact that most of the action, in this early work by Hunter, happens off stage is perhaps the most surprising thing about it. For an author, who is at the top of the action genre, this one is frustratingly restrained. But all of the elements he later masters are there- guns, assasins, heroes and villains, and haunted dreams of battles lost.
Rating:
Summary: Without Redeeming Qualities
Review: The good part: lots of action. The bad part: lacking entirely in substance or interesting characters, liberally sprinkled with mindless violence, highly improbable, basically without any significant redeeming qualities.
Rating:
Summary: Fuhgedaboudit
Review: They can't all be gems. This one wasn't. In fact, it was boring. See "Spanish Gambit" to prove to yourself that even Stephen Hunter can write two turkeys.
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