To the Death

This book is a new con's wet dream. I dare say Dick Cheney would have loved to have had Admiral Morgan on his staff. He's supposed to be the protagonist but you don't feel any sympathy for him. Perhaps the author meant this to happen. I wouldn't have shed a tear had been 'removed'. As it was Ifelt m......more

Es ging so. Die Charaktere waren mir ein bisschen zu plakativ in Gut und Bose unterteilt, und der Patriotismus trieft von jeder Seite. Das ist nicht wirklich meine Leidenschaft. Und auch der Geschichte an sich fehlte irgendwo der Schwung. Die Grundstruktur des Attentäters, der minutiös plant und des......more

Standard potboiler military novel. It's good at what it does, but its right-wing jingoism is painful. Morgan uses "towelheads" as a derogative until literally the very end of the book, and the subplot of how The Media is dangerous to security is laughable.......more

Typical and predictable of Robinson......more

really wanted to like this book but it just felt like the poor mans Tom Clancey.......more