Wwiii by Ian Slater, 0345470400, Lowest Book Price Finder

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Good Story Let Down By Inattention To Detail

Ok broadly this book was enjoyable and believable so there wasnt much wrong with it, however this book got slightly to mixed up in the personal lifes of the main characters , the brentwoods ect ect and i found in this book and subsequent ones that it became a game for the reader to remmber who was sleeping with who rather than the the war, but i could have lth that. My main beef with ian slaters WW3 stuff is his apparent inattention to detail, in any of the books, for example travelling at mach 1 at 2000 feet? hardly! and in another part he talks about mk.48 ADCAP torpedos then for two pages talks about a Mk.28, these were WW2 Torpedos, he talks of F16s with Radar Intercept Operators (RIO) the only twin seat F16s are the operational trainers. And the authour seems to have little understanding of the nature of dogfighting and seems to assume that since one aircraft is faster than the other that it has a advantage in a close in dogfight.

These discrepancies are irrating to say the least and ruin what would otherwise have been a fairly enjoyable read

What the heck?

In WWIII: Warshot, the Reagan was sunk! Along with it's crew! How the did they suddenly ressurect themselves? I dislike this book for that one reason. Everything else is fine. END

Good read, fast pace, lacking in realism

I have to say I had a hard time putting this book down. There's a lot of action and the pace is furious. However, the pace is also a weakness of the book. It is written in the style of a TV movie: everything happens quickly, seemlessly, and often unrealistically. The author makes it seem as though you can cross China in a few hours in a tank (fat chance). In one scene, a battlefield commander radios in a request for a cruise missile attack, and, within half an hour, the missiles arrive, on target, courtesy of a sub cruising in the Pacific. Nice, but highly unlikely.

On the whole I enjoyed the book. But, given the lack of realism and paper-thin characters, I'm not sure I would read another in this series.

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