Interesting premise, but poor execution. This book was about 450 pages long, and would have been a better fit at 200-250 pages. There were a number of instances where we read about the main character thinking about doing something, deciding to do it, planning how to do it, remembering why he wanted to do it, and then reliving it all again WHILE he was doing in. I eventually got to the point of recognizing the pattern and then just skipping 10 - 15 pages to get past the material I had already read (in different words) several times before.



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The amount of detail that added nothing to the story was significant. The color of the houses while I am driving down the street pursuing a terrorist add nothing, for example, to the story. And I doubt anyone pursuing a terrorist would notice absolutely anything like that. I believe he would have had tunnel vision.



I had a hard time believing that the Captain would so quickly take things into his own hands without bringing in the required government agencies. And even Iran would realize that circling your border with soldiers was not going to stop an airborne virus. As others have said, the ending was extremely abrupt. We know what happened to the tanker, but that's all. What about the President? How about Cuba and Iran? The Captain and the two Seals? The book just stopped, like the author didn't know where to take the ending, or had just gotten tired of writing.



All in all, can't recommend this one.