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Survival thriller

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 14, 2023

The political machinations continue in book two as Morgan steers the Brahmins, political parties, candidates, military and corporations toward a reset. The loyal nine have been feeling an impending crisis is close but they have no idea how close it is and that is being deliberately created. The Zero Game hackers find themselves coerced into providing the final catalyst.

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LJ

Excellent writer but a bit too much detail for me …

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2022

Mr. Akart in my view has excellent skills and when used proportionately between some necessary background and history versus action narrative he is one of my favorite authors. But when he gets into such detail, as in my view he did in this book, he gets almost pedantic and ponderous and forces me at times to fast forward and skip portions of the book. That is sad since he writes so well. If he would kindly curb his pedantic juices somewhat and give more space to his excellent action narratives I would be happier. At any rate, I’ve already downloaded “Marital Law” and am enjoying the first pages even now …

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Clif

Really miss Steven Konkoly's writing influence here!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2016

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This book lacks...everything. There is a plot but honestly this book suffered from multiple personality disorder. Part political book, part survival preparedness guide, lots of computer hacking techno-speak. But the missing part is real action. This book literally put me to sleep multiple times.
I initially got into this series because I am a huge fan of Steven Konkoly's Black Flagged series and the Persied Collapse novels. Those novels really had you engaged in the book to the point you felt you were there. This book makes you wish you were anywhere but reading it.
While the premise of the book holds great intrigue, the book immediately ruptured it's Achilles tendon and lope on in to the finish line. Along the way there was some great action set-ups and I had hope that the book would pick up from its glacial pace, but it seems that action writing and Akart don't go together. I understand Bobby did a lot of research on computer hacking and crimes for this book, so much that he wrote a whole other book about it, but with the political aspect of this book already weighing it down, throwing in the computer related sections and chapters just brought it to a dentist drill grinding halt. The author takes time to explain everything to the reader but it is done in such a way that a computer genius is explaining it to another computer person who would already know this stuff, so that's a horrible editing job. Bobby Akart needs to read Daniel Suarez to learn to get it right.
The next book I will not buy. Steven is writing a new Black Flagged book and I will await that book instead. Too many great authors like Scott McEwen, Brad Taylor, Dalton Fury and Peter Telep are out there with military books for us to read that have a set identity already. Until Steven comes back to breathe life saving action into these books, I won't be back.

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Terry Gray

Dull, boring.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2016

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Boring. And what the hell is "zero 1100 hours"? There's 1100 hours and 2300 hours. That's the distinction between morning and night. I appreciate the obvious intelligence of the writer and the research put in but this book is dull, very dull. I also appreciate the obvious patriotism. I think I'm done with this series.

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Jeffrey in Florida

I gave up at half way point

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 16, 2015

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Chapter 1 was captivating and intriguing. Chapter 2-25 was boring and dull, without action or suspense, but lots of character development. I did the last ditch effort to like it and went to page flipping past ch25 (50% mark). I did not finish the book and quit somewhere past the half way mark. I have a low tolerance for books that do not hold my interest.

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Carpe Diem

Might be good for wanne-be hackers to learn some tips

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 18, 2016

Incoherent and inconsistent storyline, monolithic characters, slow and plodding, very disappointing. Might be good for wanne-be hackers to learn some tips.
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I am unclear what the author is trying to do when he portrays characters who we are in theory supposed to like, but who are related to or otherwise in bed with an oligarch plotting to bring down the U.S. grid to cleanse society so we can start over (i.e., kill a lot of people). The story alternates between hacking descriptions (presumably, for hipsters), vague discussions of prepping set-ups, sexual innuendo between well-off and well-connected characters with expensive shoes (we are given the brand for one woman) who (at least in the audiobook) are hard to tell apart from each other, and hard to believe scenarios (e.g., we are to believe that a libertarian oriented senator would agree to be a Democratic party running mate for Hillary Clinton, and would be greeted with thunderous applause at the DNC when in her acceptance speech she describes, among other things, that the expansion of the federal government is a problem ). We are also treated to factually inaccurate and unnecessary things like a description of a wine coming from a vineyard in the Moselle River valley "near the Czech border" (the Moselle does not go to the Czech border).

What a mess. I will not be ordering the third book.

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Lee

this is one of the most boring books I have listened to

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 11, 2016

Although well written, this is one of the most boring books I have listened to. Ended up requesting refund with an hour+ left. Listen to books while commuting, found myself listening to the radio rather than this book.

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