This is one of those Special Forces Operator Novels, and it's ... not exactly horrible, but it's not really very good, either. The prose is reasonably competent--there are even flashes of dry wit and gallows humor--but there are things that are either authorial tics or genre expectations (or like author-perceived genre expectations) that wear thin very quickly. Dropping the name brands for fucking everything is one, dropping the name brands and the specs and modifications for every single firearm is another. It's as though Tom Clancy set out to write a Mack Bolan novel.
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Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
This is an interesting little novel, more literary than anything else--at least as I see it--though there's definitely some SF-adjacen...
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A beautiful novel about life as a mobster (in 1940s Tampa) and all the contradictions and complications of it. Lehane clearly has an ear f...
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This is early Vachss, all taut and violent, more than a little murky to my mind. It is not good to be a sexual offender in a Vachss novel....
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Well, this was a bit of a disappointment. Not *horrible*, but a bit bland. and with stakes that in the end seemed abruptly lower--in the s...

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