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Title: Unnecessary Measures
Review: The Amazon reviews prepared me for a good CT/HRT thriller. Sadly, on Page 5 "Jaffe checked his Glock 22 as if it were a toy. The click of the twenty-two round clip sliding home..." Glocks, like most other modern semiautomatic pistols, have magazines not clips. Barlog should know the difference; most of his readers will. They may also know that the standard Glock Model 22 magazine holds 15 not 22 rounds. Even so, I continued to read, still rich in hope...until Page 9. There, "Brax pulled his Glock-clicked the safety off." Glocks don't have manual safeties that are 'clicked off'. One doubts an author who makes 3 significant mistakes about common weapons in the first 9 pages. Will he do better with the more complex technologies of terrorism bound to be encountered later in the book? I will never know. Technical competence is as important as literary skill for thriller writers.
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