The Name Not Withstanding. . .

Not withstanding the name of the author, Dalton Fury's Black Site wasn't half bad (here). After finishing a book like Oliver Twist (here) I will sometimes "go native" and resort to my roots, or my lowest common denominator. I like cheap, throw-away, thrillers and I always have. Dalton Fury's Black Site was right up that alley.



Despite the fact that it reads like a movie script and a piece of Spec Ops propaganda designed to lure high schoolers into the military, the verisimilitude makes it worthwhile. No, there are no elite triathlete spies as you will find in Vince Flynn books, and no symbologist's a la Dan Brown, there is a flawed Delta Operator though and he, his friends, and his missions are real enough, and described in enough riveting detail to make the book enjoyable.

There was no vocabulary that I noted, not that I expected much, nor were there any analogies that warranted a second look. I will be on the look out for another Dalton Fury book. The story alone made it fun and worthwhile. From a former "Spec Ops Warrior's" perspective, I liked it. From a novel writer's perspective, a ripping good yarn. From a literary perspective . . . blah!