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Blood Of War (2013)

by Larry Bond(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0765321408 (ISBN13: 9780765321404)

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English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Forge Books

series

Red Dragon Rising

review 1: Entertaining, action-packed, with intriguing plotline and interesting characters. Perhaps I've watched too much "NCIS: Los Angeles," but if I were the Central Casting guy picking actors to star in a hypothetical adaptation of this book, I'd choose L.L. Cool J to portray U.S. Army Special Forces Major Zeus Murphy and Chris O'Donnell as Navy SEAL Lieutenant Ric Kerfer. Meanwhile, I'd also cast Lucy Liu as Lt Commander Li of the USS Campbell, Tommy Lee Jones as CDR Dirk Silas (the Campbell's skipper), Samuel L. Jackson as National Security Advisor Walter Jackson, and Jet Li as PRC Lt Jing Yo. And while not an actor, I get the impression that Larry Bond & Jim DeFelice as least partially modeled the President George Chester Greene character based upon Sen. John McCain (wishfu... morel thinking on the authors' part vis-à-vis the 2008 election, perhaps?).
review 2: I found myself constantly out of the story, laughing at Bond’s wanna be special ops dialouge. “Man you’re fast” “As tough and dark as you?” might be the gushing of a special ops wanna be author hanging around a SEAL bar, but an author who thinks any special operator would say anything like that to another embarrasses himself. An operator from any service would rather bleed out than talk like that. Army Special Forces/Green Berets veterans expect to see SF written down by fans of other Services in their novels, but this thing came off as written by a besotted cheerleader. Guys, read a lot more early Tom Clancy, run your next ms past that Marchinko SEAL fellow and try again. Joe Lewis josephmaxlewis.com less

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