![]() ![]() I mean this book could easily be a volume of Stony Man. ![]() Instead it’s that damn A plot that takes up more time, complete with an anticlimactic (to me at least) chase across Seattle as Quinn tries to prevent the Chinese Maguffin WOMD from being unleashed – while at the same time somehow unmasking the President and Vice President as traitors.Ĭameron’s writing is good, and he really has that Gold Eagle vibe to his prose. This sequence to me was the highlight of the book and could’ve easily been expanded. This though entails another cool bit where Thibodeaux and Miyagi go to her rescue. This entails another nice action scene with FBI agents getting mowed down by Miyagi’s blade, but after which more time is spent on Ronnie Garcia’s unfortunate plight as an FBI captive. I was so much more interested in the rogue administration element, with Ronnie Garcia and Win Palmer, Quinn’s boss, staying in a safehouse in Virginia and trying to find members of congress who will believe their story that the President and Vice President are traitors who are literally in league with terrorists. Unfortunately that damned “terrorist of the week” main plot gets in the way of all this. All of this is so uncomfortably close to the US of 2022…not bad for a book published in January of 2016. We even learn that a certain federal bureau has become fully politicized, sending out sadistic agents to capture and interrogate anyone who dares to oppose the junta yep, that tracks, too. Not only that, but the corrupt and moronic President also has a fondness for young women – okay, maybe not that young, but still. ![]() We also learn the President is a corrupt and mornic figurehead whose staff constantly walks back his statements. I mean for one we learn the new administration is less interested in governing the country than it is in criminalizing its rivals. And folks you’d have to be living in a deep, dark pit of denial to not see the similarities to today. Presumably the previous volume gave the background on how this happened, but in Brute Force the seditious administration is in full power. But the super-interesting stuff concerns the rogue administration that stole power through a coup. ![]() Well first you’ve got the “biological attack,” which should be pretty self-explanatory we don’t hear much about it in the actual novel, but I can only assume it was created in a Chinese lab. So how prescient is this back cover? Let me count the ways. There’s also Miyagi, a Japanese woman who trains Quinn in fighting techniques and carries a sword into battle…and yes, the book actually has a female ninja in it, which is as pulp as you can get, but Cameron stays on the level. In addition to Quinn there’s Thibodeaux, Quinn’s eyepatched sidekick, a mountain of muscle Marine who calls Quinn “chair force,” mocking Quinn’s Air Force background. There’s nothing overly “heroic” about him, and he doesn’t even display much patriotism. But nowhere do we get an idea what makes Quinn tick I mean there’s no personal impetus we’re told of that causes him to act in this capacity. Quinn works with a former intelligence guy who gives him his orders, sending him around the globe on this task and that. And Quinn and his accomplices are on their Most Wanted list. I forgot to mention, but the President and Vice President are in league with the terrorists, and are behind the plot to attack America, so as to start a war with China. The helluva it is, this “terrorist of the week” main plot line detracts from the much more interesting subplot, which has to do with the rogue administration that Quinn is trying to stop. ![]()
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