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Title: Black Site
Series: Delta Force #1
Author: Dalton Fury
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: Action/Adventure
Pages: 347
Words: 122K
Series: Delta Force #1
Author: Dalton Fury
Rating: 3 of 5 Stars
Genre: Action/Adventure
Pages: 347
Words: 122K
Synopsis:
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Kolt Raynor, code name
Racer, was at the top of his game as a Delta Force Commander when one
bad decision on a covert operation plunged him into the abyss. After
being kicked out of Delta Force and the military completely, for
three years he took odd jobs to get by and drank his life away. Then
one day there was a knock at his crappy trailer door and he was
offered the chance to get back into the game, but as a civilian. The
job was very risky, as in not-come-back-alive risky, but it was worth
it for Kolt to do it and do it well. He had three weeks to train and
it wasn’t going to be a piece of cake. If he survived the training
then he would be able to start the job.
After dropping in, making
contact with his local guide, Raynor begins surveillance of the
compound where a group of American soldiers are being held captive.
They're in captivity because they tried to rescue Raynor during his
disastrous mission 3 years ago. Raynor breaks orders, infiltrates
the compound, learns there is a huge operation underway by Al-Queda
and exfiltrates with the vague info. His bosses refuse to act on the
info and Raynor has to rely on a former Intel Spook gone native and
the local guide to figure out what's going on.
Turns out Al-Queda has
found a Black Site where high value prisoners are being held. They
wish to rescue the prisoners, destroy America's credibility in the
region and use it all as propaganda to demoralize the general
American populace (with the help of the damnable propaganda machines
known as the news outlets). Raynor warns the site, helps them survive
the various attacks and makes his own way out of the country.
My
Thoughts:
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This was enjoyable but in a very ambivalent way. Raynor gets his team
killed, regresses to an alcoholic, takes on a rescue mission and
cleans himself up. There are no surprises as far as I was concerned
and while the final goal of the Al-Queda terrorists remained a
mystery up until it happened, I simply didn't care to try to figure
it out. I just rolled with it.
Honestly, this is just another military action/adventure story among
a whole host of them. I haven't read a lot in that particular genre
so I can't tell if this was better or worse, but in general, this was
ok. I've got 3 more books by Dalton and nothing here persuaded me to
not read them.
★★★☆☆
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