One Killer Force (Delta Force, #4) in SSG: Spy/Spec-Ops Group

Apr 08, 2015 Mike (the Paladin) rated it liked it

Shelves: action, military-fiction

Well....lowest rating I've given a book in this series. I still plan to follow it and it wasn't hard to read but (in my own humble opinion of course) This one had some things I found to be, noticeable flaws.

Kolt Raynor (Racer) has always been a little bit of a maverick (no reference to Top Gun here but to the word itself). He's been written as the nonconformist par excellence in Delta Force. He's also approached having what would be a fairly inappropriate relationship with a force member under h Well....lowest rating I've given a book in this series. I still plan to follow it and it wasn't hard to read but (in my own humble opinion of course) This one had some things I found to be, noticeable flaws.

Kolt Raynor (Racer) has always been a little bit of a maverick (no reference to Top Gun here but to the word itself). He's been written as the nonconformist par excellence in Delta Force. He's also approached having what would be a fairly inappropriate relationship with a force member under his command. (view spoiler)

For me the book moved too far away from a story of Delta Force and it's personnel into a story of Kolt and his emotional turmoil.

We have a story here built around the struggle for funds to operate the SOG community with the government planning to possibly "scrap" either Seal Teams (specifically 6 is mentioned) or DELTA. Also Kolt is up for promotion with some people dead set for him and others dead set against him.

As I noted the book and story is/are readable and once we get rolling there is enough action. The political concerns aren't a problem for me as that is real life but the "aura" around it is a bit distracting.

Now I'll mention what I think is the true weakness of the book and has been possibly the weakest part of the series, without being "spoilerish".

The Cindy Bird (Hawk) story line. While the story of the first female member of DELTA could be an interesting and extremely effective plot line what we have here is rather an emotion soaked story...***WHERE KOLT HAS ENDED UP COVERING FOR/GOING TO BAT FOR HER.***... Were I a female member of the readership I'd be a bit more than ticked off by the way "Cindy" is presented.

Here she frankly does something while on a "covert mission" that not only shows poor judgement in the extreme but would in all likelihood have ended her career and quite possibly have gotten her killed. I won't say more outside a spoiler warning, but it (for me) pulled the story/book way over into "yeah right" territory.

Okay so, not a bad book. I found it a little disappointing and hope for better as the series continues. I'd say if you simply like military action you'll be okay with this one (once it gets rolling). If you've been following the series and are interested in it as an extended story-line I'd say try it and see what you think.

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Sep 02, 2017 Garry Thompson rated it really liked it

Takes a long time for me to listen to an audiobook and I miss a lot of the action. That said, I gave this novel a four start rating. The books need to be read in order: each story leans on the the earlier books.

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