Title: Griffin Needs to Get Back Into Action
Product review: We turn to Griffin for action, but Special Ops is about getting ready for action. The first chapter, a flashback, is exciting but thereafter the theme is preparation-assembling a covert force, getting it and its equipment to Africa, watching the bad guys, and planning the attack, a predictable setpiece. I also object to page after page of copies of messages. A quarter of each is information-jargon, hard to read, but information. The rest is heading, classification, signature, and blank space. Padding. Finally, it is annoying to find the head of the CIA called the Director of the CIA. His title is Director of Central Intelligence, DCI. (It is an easy mistake, like referring to Rehnquist as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; his title is Chief Justice of the United States.)
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