Title: Up on the soapbox again
Product review: I am a card-carrying NRA member and confirmed conservative, and I am sympathetic to most of the ideas here, but this book was more than even I could take. It's not so much a novel as it is another diatribe against Eastern liberals. The characters are cardboard cutouts, spouting all the familiar cliches. There's a liberal clown (Andy) who acts as a dateboard, and a contrived plot in which dozens of evil escaped cons are brought to justice through the efforts of the brave gun-toting civilians after the Feds turn their backs on the problem. In an effort to show how demented the villians are, there are graphic rape scenes and murders.In addition to the political angle, I just don't think Johnstone's skill as an outdoor adventure writer is up to the quality of Stephen Hunter, Gayle Rivers, or the granddaddy of them all, Geoffery Household (now, unfortunately, out of print).
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