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Title: A Very Different Story for Reeman Fans
Review: With an interest stemming from a former life as naval officer; I am a passionate reader of naval fiction. After reading maybe twenty of his works; I have read found Douglas Reeman and his Alexander Kent persona to be among the very best within this genre.I concur completely with the earlier reviewers on the setting and context of this novel. As is always true in his stories, the character development and story tension is full, rounded, and well written. However, I found that this very framework and its pace created a challenge for me as a reader. The storyline presented a picture that was much like the mundane constrained readiness, the minor conflicts, and the day-to-day sameness of operations that forward deployments entailed during the cold war.Page after page of this book, I asked where is the "up-and-down" ride that I have come to expect from Reeman... But it never seemed to come. I found The White Guns difficult to read and a very large disappointment.
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