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To: verga

How is the book?


16 posted on 09/08/2012 5:23:50 PM PDT by arkady_renko
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To: arkady_renko
How is the book?

I am a little over half way through and so far it is very good.

He opens by describing the infiltration to Bin Laden's compound, then goes into some of his personal history and motivation for joining the military and SEAL's.

He relays some interesting stories of various deployments including the Maresk Alabama incident.

The only criticism I have is that he will be in a flashback and from there go to an earlier flashback, but this is a minor annoyance.

The narrative flows well and he gives great descriptions of the people and events. He also does a pretty good job of describing his weapons of choice and why he chose each one for a special purpose.

He also makes a point of describing the delays from Washington in getting the okay for various missions and he is critical of the increased restrictions imposed by the continually updated "rules of engagement". He is not scathing about it, but he makes it clear that the teams were ready and willing, but were held back and frequently this resulted in difficulty with operations.

19 posted on 09/08/2012 7:12:44 PM PDT by verga (Forced to remove tag line by administrator)
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