This series continues to impress with more character development and another fat moving story. The good guys are tough with redeeming qualities; they like dogs and children. The bad guys are truly bad and provide lots of opportunities to demonstrate same. On to book three. ( )

Great reading...makes Jack Reacher seem like a pussy! ( )

It's 90% a decent action novel, and 10% a bit too much psycho-babble/sob story (at the very end of the book).

Yes, yes, McBride had it tough and survived a horrible ordeal and his interrogator is a bad bad man... but... we don't need the sudden and unexpected addition of "the other" tacked on at the end of the novel to spell this out to us. In fact. the 10% of whining story at the end could have (and should have) been completely dropped... the story ends when McBride catches the bad guy, but, for some reason, there are an additional 3 chapters that continue the story, even though there is no story in here to continue. Bad guy caught. Story done. Period. But Peterson took these extra chapters to explore McBride's psychological torture PTSD and even brought God into the story a little bit too... Thanks for the effort, but I don't need a sermon to wrap up my trashy action novel read.

The characters are a bit too old for the physical exertion required, women are female in name only (not distinguished from the men), and there is an uneven spread of details - at the start we get all sorts of details about helicopter specifications and weapon types but by the end of the novel, not much detail remained: "he was wearing a vest" or "his feet were bleeding".

All that being said, it's a decent action novel and a bit of distraction on the deck. You probably won't be able to distinguish the story from any other trashy action novel, or want to read it again, but you won't throw it out before finishing it either. ( )

Nathan McBride's worst nightmare has happened. A body was found floating in Lake Meade looking as if McBride's brutal interrogator is in the U.S. ( )