Howard Gordon Gideon's War

Happy Valentine’s Day to all! We have a big week of posts, guests on the blogtalk radio, The GZONE, and some pretty neat news and info to impart that we are a part of. Today on the blogtalk show at 1pmEST we have Bob Hamer as our guest and tomorrow we have Irene Hannon. Later on today we are dropping in another post that is a first for us and we are happy to participate in this inaugural event; more details to come in our blog. Tomorrow we have not one but two surprises; I am pumped to make both announcements. Okay back to the novel, wait, I haven’t started going on about it yet. Here is what is between the covers:

“ The U.S. president dispatches professional peacemaker Gideon Davis, whose career as a special envoy has taken him around the world, to the sultanate of Mohan, a small Pacific island nation, where a rising Islamist insurgency under the leadership of terrorist Abu Nasir threatens to overthrow the local, American-friendly government. That Gideon's beloved brother, Tillman, is caught in the deadly conflict raises the personal stakes. Gideon ends up on a giant deep sea oil rig, the Obelisk, where he must battle insurgents bent on destroying the platform.”

Howard Gordon was the executive producer for the television show 24, so I am going to guess many are going to make comparisons, not me. I haven’t seen the show yet. Maybe someday, but I have not yet had the honor. The novel for me was a fun read, a nice debut novel. My thoughts on this are such: four stars for this action/thriller/ that is a quick, moving read. Our hero doesn’t get much time to rest or breathe as he goes from one crisis to another, solving each one and uncovering who and what the bad guys are. The pace of the novel and the amount of action don’t really lend themselves to any type of deep character development but just enough to make us care about the characters and get emotionally invested in them.

Overall Gideon’s War was a fast, swift moving novel which intrigued me. Hopefully there will be more and Gordon can flesh the characters out a bit more and maybe give them 48 or 72 hours to solve the next international crisis.

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