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Title: Forsythe keeps too tight a leash on these Dogs
Review: If you like your books uneventful, characterless, dry and packed with minutae, look no further than the Dogs of War.When a vein of platinum is found in the mountain region next to a third world dictatorship, plans are put in motion to hire a group of mercenaries to take out the ruler, so fat cat businessmen can put in their own guy and get the mining rights super cheap. That's the first 50 pages.The next 350 pages are the mercenaries buying boats, guns, clothes, oil, and ammo, with plenty of "something could go wrong, but no, it doesn't" moments thrown in to make you think the book might hold some dramatic tension sometime in its barely endurable length.The last 30 pages is an attack that can only be called antilimactic.I didn't care about these people, their cause, or whether they made it out alive or not. It would have been nice to see what they could do with a little more plot.
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