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  • John Ross reviews Freeper Travis McGee's "Enemies Foreign and Domestic"!

    01/16/2004 6:51:55 AM PST · by Jeff Head · 259 replies · 3,293+ views
    Official EFAD Site ^ | January 15, 2004 | John Ross
    John Ross, Author of, "UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES", reviews Matt Bracken's "Enemies Foreign and Domestic" I have several complaints about most thriller novelists. First, their protagonists are too often 100% virtuous with no humanizing flaws. Second, the protagonists let their enemies live when you KNOW the bad guys are going to come back and murder their kids etc. Third, everything the government does (hi-tech weapons, military & police tactics, criminal investigations, etc.) functions flawlessly. Fourth, too many stories have all the brilliant thinking and brave actions done by government employees (Special Forces, policemen, Intelligence operatives, etc.) Lastly, some novels have a...