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Vanished Review

Vanished
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Vanished ReviewWhat the hell has Roger Heller gotten himself into? Vanished, the latest thriller from Joe Finder opens with an attack on Lauren and Roger Heller as they are leaving a Georgetown restaurant. Lauren wakes up more than 24 hours later, badly concussed. Of Roger, there is no sign. In the interim, their 14-year-old son, Gabe, has called in his uncle, Nick, for help. It is Nick Heller, brother of Roger, who Finder is setting up to be the hero of a new series of novels.
He's made a good choice. Born to a life of extreme wealth--all of which was lost in a scandal--Nick gave up the pursuit of cash and joined the armed forces. Now he works as a private investigator for a high-end DC firm. He's tough, charismatic, and extremely competent. Nick Heller strikes me as a character that could go over equally well with both men and women.
Nick and Roger haven't been close in years, but Nick can't leave his only brother's disappearance entirely in the hands of the DC police. He begins his own investigation, while at the same time continuing to look into loose threads from his last work case. The deeper he digs into each, the more convoluted these two cases become. And the more enemies he seems to acquire.
Occasionally I thought I knew where Finder was going with his story, and occasionally I was right. More often I was wrong. A couple times I was completely stunned by a plot development. Joe Finder is definitely more clever than I am. Nick Heller is also more clever than I am, and the man really knows how to throw a punch. Fight scenes in the book were unusually interesting and well-written. Additionally, take it from a native Washingtonian that the DC setting was used with specificity and authenticity. (And observations like, "Washington, D.C., is to lying what Hershey, Pennsylvania, is to chocolate" made me smile.) Plenty of details that ring true do a lot to sell the whole story.
These days, I've got a litmus test for thrillers: Can I read it in a single day? Because it has relatively little to do with how many pages or how fast I read. It's all about a novel holding my interest for hours on end. Vanished passed with flying colors. It's not Finder's strongest work, but it's a good start to a new series.Vanished Overview

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A Mission for Delta Review

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A Mission for Delta ReviewMission for Delta proves that being a career soldier with a career full of good stories to tell doesn't make you a good storyteller.
James Jones (From Here to Eternity) wasn't a career soldier but that didn't make his book any less powerful.
Bucky Burruss was a career soldier (lord knows Clark Kent's beat that horse to death) but even that can't make Mission for Delta a book that anybody whose nom de plume ain't in it would stick with long enough to finish.
The writing is stiff and stilted...downright clumsy. Burruss makes a night parachute jump seem boring and that's an achievement.
The characters with the most life to them are women. The characters given the most suck-up time (and sex scenes) are officers. Logical because Burruss was an officer and other officers are the men he wanted most to impress. The characters Burruss develops least and seems to understand least are the operators themselves. Also logical because Burruss was not an operator.
The missions are cold-war stuff. Interesting only to us old guys because of who Burruss was and what he knows. But the book we really wish he would write is about the mission that was beginning as the book ends:
Burruss is one of the few men alive who might know the real story about the ultimately sabotaged Delta mission to rescue the POWs left alive in Vietnam in the late 1980s.A Mission for Delta OverviewAn action packed thriller about nuclear terrorism during the Cold war. Follow Delta Force members Dave Ames, Matt Jensen, and Rebecca Brown as they try to track down a terrorist nuclear device with the potential to change the history of the world. From guerrilla camps in Nicaragua to the halls of Congress, divided Berlin, and Cyprus, these secret warriors risk their lives and love to prevent the ultimate terrorist act. Written with an insider's knowledge by the former Deputy Commander of the Army's elite anti-terrorist group, the Delta Force. Exciting, fast paced adventure for men and women alike.

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