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The Officers' Club (2011)

by Ralph Peters(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0765326809 (ISBN13: 9780765326805)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Forge Books

review 1: Wow! Once I started I couldn't put this down. Initially a bit turned off by the sexual promiscuity characterized by the protagonists I was overwhelming drawn by the sophisticated run down memory lane of what the Army was like in the early 1980s. An absolutely superbly written account of a time gone by that perfectly captures the currents of the world and inner-Army as well as provides a captivating story of a dark crime-thriller that keeps the reader enthralled throughout. Ralph, well done!
review 2: From most of the reviews I've read, I guess I'm a minority opinion on this book. I didn't think it was very good at all. I thought the lead character didn't have much depth and was hard to understand his rationalizations for his actions. The secondary character... mores in this book aren't developed enough. They were basically your run of the mill cardboard cutouts of a lot of other books. The book starts off fast with a murder and then it starts dragging very slowly in the middle. It was almost if the author didn't really know where he wanted to go and was wandering around or just filling up pages. I enjoyed learning about the Army lifestyle in the 80's however I hope it wasn't all like that with the drugs, wild sex and the cheating going on. I found that you had to take a lot of leaps of faith with the plot including that the main character as a lieutenant is an instructor in Intelligence. Just didn't enjoy the book as much as I wanted. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. less

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