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Dance with the Dragon (McGarvey) |
Author: David Hagberg
Published: 2007-09-18 |
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 Soldier of God
Soldier of God is an excellent action, espionage novel. It keeps moving and has colorful characters. Great reading if you like this kind of stuff.
 Good book
I like everything Hagberg does, except for the disgruntled wife cuz her "retired" CIA man keeps going back on jobs. I've seen enough Steve Segal movies to the point where that aspect of characters is very, very cliche. I agree that he should be single, thus able to weave women characters into the story a little better, and he should have a field officer job or anything other than retirement, seeing retired guys go back into the field is about as old as watching Jimmy Johnson win another race. Other than that, it's good, I just wish that one day, one of these espionage type authors would create a character that is NOT torn between his carrer and family.
Go Dave
I think David Hagberg is the one of the best of this genre. He writes exceedingly well. I ejoyed the Kirk McGarvey series enough to give 3 of his books to my brother-in-law three of his books for Christmas. Hard to put down. Half the way through, I find myself slowing down, hoping it will not end. It does. I look forward to his next book. Hagberg can't write fast enough for me. He is prescient. I'm forced to read his books again. Too bad the Decider doen't read his books.
He Did It Again
Hagberg is the King of the thriller novel. He did it again with Dance With The Dragon. To bad we don't really have a MacGarvey to defend our way of life.
 Is It a Hit or a Miss? Unfortunately, the latter.
I have read all of the Kirk McGarvey novels that this author has written, this being the tenth and it was not until this one that I was disappointed in both the story line and the writing.
The entire novel is a prelude to the next one and is completely tied up with trying to unravel the mystery of the next big attack which is going to be visited on the United States.
The story is largely centered in Mexico where odd things are going on at the CIA Station there. An agent is murdered and brutally beheaded. There seems to be a link between this act and the agent's activities involving the Chinese embassy. That's just the problem. There are bits and snatches of this and that and no one can figure out what is happening. Not even the director of Special Operations, Otto Rencke can get a handle on it using all of his computer prowess. All he can say is that his computers are turning lavender. (not a good thing)
Dragged back from retirement, former Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) is asked to go to Mexico and see if he can piece together what is going on. From there until fairly near the end of the book, the story is best described as plodding and repetitive.
There are intruiging characters. Gloria Ibenez resurfaces from the previous novel, "Allah's Scorpion" (one of his best). Another woman of mystery comes forward to tell her version of events that led to the murder of the CIA agent. There is a mysterious Chinese General by the name of Liu who is loosely attached to the Chinese embassy and who is certainly mixed up in things, but how?
If the point of the story is that the business of espionage is a slow and tedious process, the point is well made as we go from interview to inquiry to discussion to interview again. You sometimes feel as though you already have read a particular chapter as they are often similar.
There is a section of the book where the author describes the post 9/11 world perhaps as well as I have ever seen it done: "Ever since 9/11 a new world order had emerged. It was the same holy war...that had been going on for fifteen centuries. Only this time the soldiers were Muslim radicals, jihadists who were filled with such holy zeal that they were willing to sacrifice their own lives for a cause that most of them could not name, let alone understand."
There is more, but it merely an aside.
What I was left with after finishing the book was the question as to why this book was not the first six chapters of the book that is surely to follow which has great promise as being a spell binder, given the nature of the threat. Hopefully, Hagberg will be up to the challenge when he writes it. This one seems to be mostly treading water to no great purpose.
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