Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Power Down (Dewey Andreas Book 1) (edición 2010)por Ben Coes (Autor)
Información de la obraPower Down por Ben Coes
Ninguno Cargando...
InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I have a lot of mixed feelings about this first Dewey Andreas book. It reminds me of Tom Clancy books in a way, in the way it glorifies the military and makes super-heroes out of characters and super-villains out of the bad guys. But that's OK, if you don't look for realism in your action comics - oops, I mean books. Star Wars wasn't very realistic, either, but I enjoyed that series. Dewey Andreas is sort of a Jack Reacher type, if Jack Reacher ever turned into a hard-drinking, bitter old guy that enjoys killing people. But I think Jack Reacher is too clean-cut to ever become that type of person. But aside from all this, I did enjoy the book. Really, it would have made a good super-hero action comic book, or whatever they're called nowadays - I don't read them. Lots of killing bad guys, or anyone that looks like a bad guy. It's the type of book you can't take seriously, like some people seem to do. I liked the old Tom Clancy books, too, until they began too much over-the-top liberal bashing preachiness that detracted too much from the story. So I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure how much I can take, and I don't know if I'll read more. I believe this type of book needs some humor; it takes itself too seriously. One of the great things about Arnold Schwarzenegger movies is the humor, where he sometimes seems to make fun of himself. I previously read Ben Coes' Coup d'etat which comes after this book, having enjoyed it so much I chased this one down to start at the beginning and now having finished Power Down I can say I am glad I did. Power Down has terrorist action on a scale not often portrayed, on Clancy's Sum Of All Fears level almost, the only real minor quibble I have with it is in one scene a huge dam is said to be on the edge of a sea with a river below it - that doesn't make much sense, this aside though it's an excellent action packed romp. Would highly recommend for fans of Vince Flynn, Dale Brown, et cetera. It's a well-written, if often time implausible, action thriller. It's great at getting you to turn the pages. The action is unrelenting. Of course that leaves little time to figure out the characters. The exception is Dewey Andreas, the action star of the book. If you are looking for an action thriller, this is worth picking up. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML: Introducing a major new thriller writerâ??in the vein of Vince Flynn and Brad Thorâ??and an electrifying character, Dewey Andreas. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNingunoCubiertas populares
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |
Power Down by Ben Coes is an excellent thriller that explores the possibility that terrorists in the future may target infrastructure instead of people, but still kill a lot of people. (And make a few bucks in the stock market while they're at it.) In the vein of Tom Clancy, the good guys are really good, and the bad guys are really evil. This book is a fast-paced chase from beginning to end with enough explosions, car chases, and gun battles to satisfy anyone.
Thanks to GoodReads FirstReads program for a chance to read this book. ( )