Saturday, May 19, 2018

Field of Valor by Matthew Betley



#3 in the Logan West saga, former Marine Force Recon commander. Now head of the special task force Ares that answers only to the President. Their current target is a shadowy group that controls untold number of cells worldwide. The Organization.

At first, The Organization acted against groups that worked against the greater good. Now they too have gone a bit rogue. Task Force Ares picks up the investigation. Intel says a top dog known only as The Recruiter is to be and the National Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airport. As Ares tracks a couple possible targets in the mob of tourists, West mobile phone rings and he answers the unknown number right in the middle of an op. A strangely familiar voice tells him that the Museum is a trap.

The trap and subsequent shoot out start a chain of unpredictable events. Like the Baltimore-Washington Pkwy execution of an NSA boss on his way to brief the President. The assault on the Chesapeake Bay mansion of a shipping billionaire. And more assaults all on US soil. Clues say there is a shadow government in the US. Or is it China? Or Russia? Trust is running pretty thin in West’s world.

Being a former Marine officer and sniper platoon commander with deployments to Africa and the middle east, Betley is perfectly suited to deliver the goods at the pace of a minigun. You no sooner catch your breath and then the next assault sneaks in through the bushes of descends from a helicopter. With Betley having served in combat, we have to believe the dialog of battle is as it should be and the action, bloody and vicious, reflects what all of us can only imagine. 

Great non-stop action and realistic dialog cover dang near every page. What more do you want? Why, another Logan West book.

BTW, just learned that the Logan West series has been optioned to Hollywood. Should be way better than anything Marvel or DC Comics are giving us today.

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