Peacemaker

Rating:
Summary: Not bad at all
Review: A vast improvement from the previous book and benefits from being longer and more complex. Fast moving and although nothing new, it is well put together and weaves a number of storylines together effectively. A little rushed at the end but an entertaining book and a lot to suggest that there is even better to come from the Kents.

Rating:
Summary: 6 Months' Reading, but a naval classic
Review: Deary me, what a fantastic book! Okay, it took me from January to July to read it, but I'm all the more happy for reading it.
The novel starts at the main character's house, the main character being Alan Craik. The main characters are having a farewell party in the house: Al Craik is going to NavyIntel; his wife Rose wants really to be an astronaut; Harry O'neill, a funny guy with a lot of good wit is going to train to be a good spy; Dukas is going to an intelligence agency IVI; and the Peretz's are going also into the intel industry. Craik is out in the navy: there will soon be a launch of Peacemaker: a missile that the public, and some of the military even!, think is a satellite capable of keeping peace all around the world 24/7. Of course, it's not that at all. It's a missile capable of dropping hundreds of Uranium rods and exploding them with force. That is what scared me at first reading. Dukas finds Pigareou, a French intelligence officer who is hunting out war criminals: Dukas decides to join him. For months, they are looking out for the world's most dangerous war criminal who could potentially destroy the Peacemaker Ops. Fleetex, the pre-launch exercise goes disastrously wrong as the navy, and the big headed admirals, feel that their crews are bad, and I mean bad. Craik abruptly leaves the ship off the coast of Zaire as he finds an astonishing but worrying piece of truth: Harry O'Neill has been captured. At this point, there is a lot of bloody war and terrorism: in Bosnia, Colonel Zulu, the infamous war criminal is craving to cause chaos and mass death: he needs to mass produce murders for he himself was a sad child, but the reader reads more in to that in a later chapter. When O'neill is found, and both Craik, Harry himself and Al's helper, Djalik, are found to be desperately ill and injured, they find that Rose is doing a fab job of the Peacemaker Op, it's just that their footsteps in the mud are being traced: by Russians and Libyans. Mike Dukas has found, through a Serbian spy, Obren, where Zulu is. In other words, Zulu is going to get shot any point in the book. Part three? I'm going to refrain from giving too much away, but the Russians and Libyans are mistaken for the bad ones in the blue sea? But what are their real intentions? Is the US Navy really playing the good guy in the game?

I personally believe that if you have the time to read such an epic thriller, and the notion that there are always bad people in good institutions, you would really enjoy this book. It may be long, but if you hack through the pages and really appreciate the atmosphere attained on such a matter, you would really lov it. I'll award five stars.

Rating:
Summary: Peace Maker puts you to sleep
Review: I don't why this book got such hich marks for action...other than the raid on the torture house in Africa in the beginning of the book, I found it completely BORING!
The book jumps around from character, to character a lot, to the point where don't know what is going on, and other than the obvious bad guy in this poorly thought out book, there is more anomosity between people in our own military, that the careers, or ruination, there of, the people in this book seemed to be the major focus of this book.
Definitely my first, and last of this author for me! It seems like this these authors are trying to become another Tom Clancy duet, and the result is sheer boredom!!!