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Title: Larry Bond's First Team (BOND, LARRY) by Larry Bond, James Defelice ISBN: 0-7653-0711-1 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but nothing new.
Comment: First off, Larry Bond and Tom Clancy are my favorite writers for fiction. However...
This is not like any of Larry Bond's first three books: Red Phoenix, Vortex, and Cauldron. It does resemble his latter two of Day of Wrath, and Enemy Within.
I found it a good book and easy to follow, but not to the level of his first three. It is fairly typical of most terrorist plotted techno-thrillers out today. It is worth buying, but only in the bargain bin or paperback.
I highly recommend Michael Farmer's "Tin Soldiers"
Rating: 1
Summary: I beg you not to read this book.
Comment: I have a new "worst book I've ever read" on my list after trudging through this garbage for the last three weeks. First Team has two things going for it. First, the book summary on the jacket because that is the only hope you have of following the plot, and second, the captions beginning each chapter that indicate where the characters are.
Larry Bond's books have all been high quality novels, even though the last one he wrote wasn't as good. But he hasn't written anything in awhile then returns with this effort with co-author Jim Defilice. I don't know who wrote what, but somewhere along the line, they really botched this book up.
The story involves a team that operates outside the law tracking terrorists. It has CIA man Fergeson, two special forces memberts Rankins and Connors and a marine called Guns. They are on the trail of terrorists trying to prevent a dirty bomb being set off in the USA.
I seriously considered quitting this book after about 100 pages. At this point the problem wasn't the storytelling, but the horrendeous dialogue among the "First Team". I guess the authors were trying to add character to these people, but every other word was a joke or a lewd comment. This detracted from the story because it often seemed forced and out of place and incredibly unrealistic. I doubt soldiers trade crass jokes in the heat of battle.
The horrible dialogue tapers off somewhat and then the horrible story takes over. The authors can't describe scenery at all and do a horrible job of telling the reader why characters are in Iran, then in Russia, then split up into teams, then together. Why are they following a train? Why do they stop? How do they get to a US airbase from following a train? Those easy questions are never answered.
This book has the typical computer nerd working in a messy office at headquarters and he finds some useful info and shares it with the team in the field. Or at least I think he did. What he finds out and tracks makes no sense. The authors mention a May 11 memo. Where did this come from. Did I miss its introduction early in the novel?
The president of the USA sends a sexy 26 year old attorney who amazingly has gone through special forces training out in the field to go with the "Team" and to make all key decisions. Ridiculous.
The "authors" do a horrible job of setting up the premsis for the existence of the "First Team." They do a baq job of writing characters and dialogue. They have no clue about telling a story.
This book is horrible. Please don't read it!!!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Terrific Techno
Comment: Larry Bond's First Team was mind bending! I really enjoyed this book. The characters were real and it seemed like anytime the action was in danger of lagging something got blown up real good. What more could you want from a techno. I just loved it!
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