Didn’t expect a travel guide book for most of this reading. When it finally got to the action/adventure part it was forced and unbelievable. Writing is a poor substitute for Tom Clancy.

Read too much like a romance novel wrapped in a tour guild brochure. Miss the old team working together. Now the last few books have been Superman Jack Jr. with the rest of the campus sitting on the bench.

Not worth the read.

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That Jack Jr. could be so dense! A great story other than that, and I was thrilled that it was so localized to a territory troubled for so long. Jack Jr. needs a strong woman to keep him centered; so he can keep his mind on the business at hand - maybe Adara is the one?!?

Non-stop action and intrigue. Complex plot twists and complicated characters. A great read.

His Jack Jr. character is supposed to be young but has the internal sentiments of a man who’s sperm count doesn’t match his unrealistic sense of his sexual vitality... that said I enjoyed the balkans history and food reviews. More of this and less of the BS... The other characters left something to be desired - development was pretty poor - bad guys not very believable or particularly frightening. The idea that idiot cousin could successfully shoot down an airliner was a real eye roller - even in the “anything’s possible” world of fiction. The Turkish angle could have been better developed given historical context and current affairs. I found it odd that the Russians, as a side plot, far more terrifying... not exactly what you would want here... I get that they were a plot decoy but maybe should have toned them down slightly.

Clancy character but not Clancy. Still a great read.

Plot development was painfully slow with only snippets of Tom Clancy-like action. Character development was ragged. Overall, a poor read relative to other efforts in the Clancy-Ryan genre by this author.

Great book. Well done in the Clancy tradition