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Summary: Not your father's InterNET
Review: The NetForce books are great action-adventure stories, and POI is no exception. However, the last few stray so far from the original concept, I'm not sure why they're artificially plugged into the series. This one is as action packed as you can get with drug dealers, designer drugs, rogue law enforcement guys, pregnant martial arts expert being attacked by drug crazed deviate, etc. Great! However, where does NetForce play a part in solving this non-computer crime? Answer: it shouldn't, but because of the title of the series it has to. Very contrived. Still a great read, but call it "DrugForce" or some such thing. Just anything but "NetForce."
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Summary: BIG FUN!
Review: This is the second book I have read from the series and it did not let me down. It was amazing. I just could not put it down. The characters are just GREAT! I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants action and some great characters. Hope you get and enjoy the book.
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Summary: BIG FUN!
Review: This is the second book I have read from the series and it did not let me down. It was amazing. I just could not put it down. The characters are just GREAT! I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants action and some great characters. Hope you get and enjoy the book.
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Summary: A good entertaining book.
Review: This was the first work of Tom Clancy that I actually read. I've seen some of the movies (Hunt for Red October, and the a few of the Jack Ryan movies). I personally found the book enjoyable. It kept my interest through most of the book. I thought the end of the book asked me to suspend my disbelief a little too much, but overall an entertaining read. I thought the book explained a lot of the technical stuff well without boring someone who may not be interested. The action was pretty good, and kept the book moving, and the twists kept things interesting. This may have been my first Clancy novel, but it certainly will not be my last.
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Summary: Hard-Hitting and Gripping.
Review: Unlike "NightMoves" this book has NetForce acting more as a supporting agency to an investigation. The plot is a lot tighter than "NightMoves", with even the friendship between Drain and Tad and Toni's pregnanacy actually fitting into the plot somewhat. The action is a lot faster as well, with enough twists and turns to please any fan of the genre. What scares me most of all about this is that something like "The Hammer" may be possible--it may even exist!
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Summary: Do I have to give a star?
Review: What drivel. Since the rating system here won't let me rate lower than one star, I guess I'll justify it by saying at least it's not really Tom Clancy. Unlike Clancy who feigns good writing by swamping the reader with military jargon, Steve Perry does attempt to develop characters and to write a story. For this HIS name should be in giant letters on the cover instead of Clancy's. Sadly though, despite being better than Clancy, Perry failed miserably in his attempts. The story is very unbelievable and embarrassingly contrived. I can believe that purple capsules could concievably be created that could give the user incredible bursts of energy, strength, stamina, and intelligence. However, they cannot change what species we are! Doing what some of his characters did, our tendons and muscles would rip and tear and our bones would break, all to the point where all the energy in the world would not help. Perry however, expects us to believe that this drug can somehow give us supernatural powers- something more than any human could ever do! His villains are also so pathetically stereotypical it actually made me laugh. Drayne and Tad with their father issues, the two renegade FBI agents and their closeted homosexuality, the conspiratorial drug companies- ah the humor of it all. But the villains weren't the only poorly written characters. Toni's character was disappointingly pointless. Perry goes into great lengths to detail her martial arts expertise but when the cards are on the table a knife to the back with which she could easily have pierced Tad's spine and rendered him paralysed with given her knowledge and skill, is ill-aimed. This gives Tad a weapon and an excuse to make the man, Toni's husband, the hero. Even I can see the sexism in that. Finally, the ending. I am just glad Perry didn't try humour throughout the whole book, because that "ironic" line at the end was eye-rollingly cheesy.
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