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How they’ve turned Charlie Castillo into a Sub par Clive Custer character.

Revisado: 08-26-24

Not really a Presidential Agent novel as none of the OOA people seem to still exist including the Merry Outlaws . Charlie only exists as an unrecognizable cutout. Scott Brick is a fine narrator but is too closely associated with the Cussler books. His voice here underlines the perception that this is a poorly written CC clone full of macho chest thumping and jingoistic BS.

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Chase blows it

Revisado: 12-26-22

A strange disjointed story with an unusually high body count and omniscient bad guys. Get back on the sailboat Gordon.

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Just read Follow the night

Revisado: 06-30-22

Boyd from Marcom’s book are used in whole cloth in this book. Other than a bit of sex and Karen Blixen there’s more redundancy than anything else.

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Same old same old

Revisado: 03-25-22

Stone meets hot girl, like always. She’s stupidly married a murderous ape, like always. No matter where they go the bad guys instantly find them. Many shots fired police don’t seem to notice or care. Like always. The girl turns out to be profoundly stupid, like always. The CIA and Strategic Services are more inept than the keystone Kops, as always, rinse change title, repeat ad infinadum.

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Violent, Stupid and pointless

Revisado: 01-01-21

Improbability‘s pile up on absurdity in the story which really has no plot is extremely violent and makes no sense. Every time President Holly Barker comes on the scene I cringe with the absolute ridiculousness of the idea of her being President of the United States. Stuart Woods icreativity has definitely run out of gas and instead of shooting strangers in their head they should probably just shoot stone And put him out of our misery!

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Not a Fletch Book

Revisado: 10-14-20

A cross between a travelogue and a history lesson. Endless flow of uninteresting information when all I be wanted was a good story.

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Stuart Woods jumps the shark

Revisado: 08-27-20

Aside from being boring and ridiculous this book disappoints because it’s really not about stone and do you know in the usual crew it’s a half assed story of the Secret Service and FBI supposedly protecting Holly Barker the new president elect.

As the storyline of Stone Barrington evolved over the years I have to say that the plot device of Holly Barker being elected president is ridiculous it’s so ridiculous that any story about her as president elect comes off as bizarrely odd and fake. Holly’s story line as being elected president is overall the point when Wood jumped the shark but specifically in this story the precise moment of shark jumping occurs when they had Holly’s old commanding officer who raped her and drug her take a position as chief of police in orchard Beach for no other reason as ridiculous as a coincidence as it might be other than to further the storyline of an investigation into Hollys back ground that doesn’t go anywhere. Of all the towns in the US that need a police chief he just chose the one Hollys in! I bet he’s from Delano GA as well! Utter rubbish!!

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Teddy Faye gets senile

Revisado: 05-28-20

This book is lazy and so full of “inside Hollywood” filler that it’s essentially boring.

The way the veteran with PTSD is handled is shocking in its stereotypical and ignorant treatment of veterans. Shame on the authors!

Teddy lets himself get caught twice, really??

The whole Mark Wheldin thing is complete nonsense, could the world be that dumb?

Academy awards for everyone ask Martin Scorsese how that worked out for him.

This book is beyond lazy and is boringly dumb. Hard pass!

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Silly beyond belief!

Revisado: 03-26-20

Dino and Stone make Barney Fife look like Hercule Poirot . The boys bungle every thing in every way possible yet still manage to survive with their hubris intact. Stone has never hesitated to endanger the women in his life (many have died) and the fact that he brings his lady doctor friend and the Eagles to NYC in the midst of a mass murderer trying to kill Stone buggers the imagination. The bad guys are as stupid as Sone and Dino openly showing up and begging to get shot. While mostly stupid the perp seems to be clairvoyant about Stone’s destinations and are magically transported to where ever Stone is heading weapons at the ready. Aside from Stone and Dino It’s hard for me to say whose most incompetent here the NYPD Strategic Services or the CIA. Anyone can gain access to any of Stone’s houses at any time and totally free to plant bugs, blow things up or openly wander around his property no matter how many guards he has from any of the available services. The improbabilities pile up faster than the bodies around Stone and no matter how many guns they have Stone is always being stabbed or hit in the head with a dessert dish before he can Ever get a shot off while the bad guys make escapes that would baffle Houdini. The nonsense and serendipitous coincidences are only being surpassed these days by the flaunting displays of wealth and all its trappings to a totally annoying degree. Woods has been phoning it in for a while and until now it hasn’t been to the point of making one angry. That threshold has been breached in this one. Oh did I mention that Holly Barker is President of the United States?

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Tom Clancy light, very light

Revisado: 03-11-17

Scott Brick has taken on this smug condescending tone that is really annoying his voice inflection amounts to editorializing. His lip curled sneer has gotten tiresome.

I don't know if it's because Scott reads the Clive Cussler books too, but I kept thinking through out that I was listening to a Cussler book with the usual mile wide plot holes, the Chinese weren't interested in the rest of the data concerning all US intelligence operatives, really?? And the final shoot out was planned by the Campus guys in the dumbest way possible, Clarks fully exposed on a hillside 400 meters through the woods away from the action with a deer rifle?? And for a book that spent half its pages going into agonizing detail about training exercises, the shooting starts and no one can hit anything? A decent story idea, but the implausibilities and contradictions pile up in a little too jingoistic pile. I used to love the campus stories, but things are pretty sad without Tom C at the helm. Maybe we should be really trying him to "ghost write" these stories! Note to Scott Brick, a talented reader with a great voice, always a favorite of mine, but dude, get over yourself!

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