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Summary: What a disappointment!
Review: I looked forward to reading this book. Normally I can read Larry Bond's books in two or three days, they're so engrossing. This one took me almost a month. I had to force myself to continue reading most of it. Totally unbelieveable cardboard characters - and that's the two heroes. If Bond's next book has these two characters (Thorn and Gray) in it, I'm not going to bother to read it. Like I'm going to believe those two can off scores of highly trained killers with every time of gun and hand to hand combat on three continents and save the USA from nuclear annihilation. Not a single reason to like these two cartoon characters. C'mon Larry, I know you can do better because I read your other books.
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Summary: A Big Let Down
Review: I loved Red Phoenix, but this was a big let down! When you're saying outloud "this is totally unbelievable" while you're reading the book, you know that's a bad sign. Also, the romance angle did not work whatsoever and seemed like it was just thrown in. Larry Bond: go back to basics!
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Summary: Hated the love story; liked the thriller story.
Review: I miss the old Larry Bond. Vortex, Cauldron and Red Phoenix were amazing and filled in the gap when Tom Clancy lost his way. And now it seems that with this title and The Enemy Within, Bond has also decided to pander to the mainstream. The romance angle was distracting and unconvincing and cut from the same cloth as Harlequin. Having said that, once I forced myself past the first 100 pages or so, I really began to enjoy the story. I had to prepare myself for those awkward moments when the two characters were left alone, but a quick scan of the mush allowed me to get back to the story.
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Summary: A page-turner of the first rank
Review: I ordered "Day of Wrath" and "The Triumph and the Glory" last week and have to say that they wree both very, very good books. Larry Bond has done better, though with some of his previous novels, this one was lacking a little in the credibility department and was a little uneven. " The Triumph and the Glory" is a thriller like Bond writes, but in more of a Herman Wouk style. At any rate, I would encourage you to read both of them.
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Summary: This book has you from the very first chapter to the end
Review: I personelly thought this book was well written, and very exciting to read. Larry Bond has action from the first page to the very last page. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes military suspense.
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Summary: Highly entertaining
Review: I really enjoyed reading this novel. The novel is full of action and its fun watching the characters trying to find ways of defeating the Saudi prince. The Prince reminds me of Osuma bin Laden, which is probably why I like this book so much. However, I do find it hard to believe that the main characters can escape so many dangerous situations when the villans are high-priced terrorists and Stasi agents.
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Summary: Highly entertaining
Review: I really enjoyed reading this novel. The novel is full of action and its fun watching the characters trying to find ways of defeating the Saudi prince. The Prince reminds me of Osuma bin Laden, which is probably why I like this book so much. However, I do find it hard to believe that the main characters can escape so many dangerous situations when the villans are high-priced terrorists and Stasi agents.
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Summary: Dear Larry, please not another Thorn novel. Please?
Review: I wasnt impressed by Enemy Within. And it got worse with Day of Wrath - good thing I got a library copy.There's just too many lucky escapes and its so unbelievable that the 2 protagonists could for the 50,000th time outwit ex-Stasi agents and very well paid mercenaries. And the usual convenient bad guy - an arab. What's this preoccupation with Arabs anyway? Can't someone pick a different villian for once? A chinese dictator, an evil Swedish billionaire, a mad Burmese ? Anyway Larry should stick to his awesome war epics - Cauldron, Vortex and Red Phoenix - I remembered how much I DROOLED over every page and didnt sleep for 48 hours finishing red Phoenix. But I digress. If you enjoy b-grade unbelievable escapades get Day of Wrath, else get/re-read Larry's previous works which are heaps better than Enemy Within and DOW.
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Summary: Good but not great effort from Larry Bond
Review: I'm a huge fan of Larry Bond -- Red Pheonix is one of the best war/techno-thriller books I've ever read, and I really enjoyed Vortex and Caldron, too. But Day of Wrath left me wanting more -- frankly, I find the main love interest a little trite in this story, and the main plot line is more derivative than I've come to expect from Larry Bond. Still, I found it an entertaining read, though compared to other recent works in this genre (Clancy's new Rainbow Six, for example), I'd have to give it a low passing grade. I will buy Bond's next book, though, and hope for a more original effort next time.
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Summary: Good book but not the Larry Bond book I expected.
Review: If you are looking for a military thriller like Bond's "Vortex" or "Red Phoenix", you won't find it here. Not that this is a bad book because it is not. It just was not the type of book I expected.
"Day of Wrath" is a military James Bond-esque type thriller with a large international plot that crosses continents and jurisdictions with lots of action. The odds are heavily against the good guys (of course) but they have pluck!...Anyway, you can see that it is sort of formulaic but it is still good. I think that it has a slow start but once the ball gets rolling it's worth the time to read it.
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