Undercover War

Well the year is 1999 post the millennium new year celebrations based in Cuba where Castro is dead and the exiled Cubans have returned to try and resurrect Cuba back from its Communist years of decay. The exiles who are governing have invested tens of millions in infrastructure upgrades to hotels shopping malls resorts etc. with the intention of luring the American tourist back to bring in the dollars to revive the economy. Against this is the ousted Communist figures who no longer have a job in the post Castro era who lust for a return to the way things were and to regain the power they held. Enter the Cuba Libre terrorist group made up of these said ousted Communist figures who figure if enough terrorist attacks occur the envisioned influx of American tourists will not occur, enter the Mafia who the ousted have promised fire sale prices of the collapsed hotels, resorts etc. Sounds all right for a plot this should be okay I was thinking. Enter the Black Ops group of five operatives who if they were in any way compared to Phoenix Force would so insult the PF guys they would immediately retire. RUBBISH This 350 page offering could have easily have been released as a 200 to 220 page title simply by removing the almost constant waffling on by the author where he just wanks on and on about absolutely nothing. Removing his opinions regarding the state of American politics would remove 30 or so pages alone. Nothing happens folks the Black Ops team consists of very wishy washy characters, the bad guys are very ordinary, the actions scenes are basically non existent and ongoing storyline is made so boring by the constant ramblings of the author would I suggest make this a title to steer well clear of. With few exceptions I have very much enjoyed this authors offerings in the Bolan combined series which was the reason I purchased these three titles of this series. Oh well on to number two of the series tomorrow I would suggest it would have to be better than this one I shudder to think what I am about to read if it is worse than this and if so number 3 will remain unread by me. Not one to recommend here from me.

Excellent prediction of post-Castro Cuba as ex-Castroites and Mafia strongarms try to bring back what they see as the good old days to a democratic Cuba. I nominate the warrior woman Bao as a candidate for Stony Man. I'd love to see Kassner bring her or a character modelled after her to the series.