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Code Name Camelot (Noah Wolf) Paperback – March 3, 2022
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Framed for crimes he did not commit, he is sentenced to death by his own country...
Noah Wolf is quickly becoming one of the top names in the world of espionage. With well over 1 million copies sold and thousands of five star reviews, this perennial USA Today bestselling series will be sure to keep your heart pounding well into the night.
After witnessing the murder-suicide of his parents as a child, Noah suffers from a form of PTSD that has left him without emotion, without a conscience and without the ability to function as a normal human being. With the help of childhood friends, he learns to watch others around him and mimic their behaviors, in order to conceal the fact that his mind operates more like a computer that he has spent years programming. That program is what allows Noah to pass himself off as normal, by establishing parameters of right and wrong that are completely inviolable to him.
As a young adult, Noah finds structure in the U.S. Army, and becomes an excellent and exemplary soldier, but when his self-imposed programming is put to the test by the murderous acts of the superior officer, Noah finds himself quickly made expendable, charged with crimes he did not commit and facing the possibility of execution. Without any reasonable hope for a reprieve, Noah's logic-based mind accepts his fate.
Sometimes, though, things are not all as they seem to be, and Noah is offered one chance to save himself. It was his disability, his lack of emotion, that made him the soldier he had become. Now, an ultrasecret organization known as E & E wants Noah's talents, offering him a chance to survive…
As the most deadly assassin the world has ever known.
Fans of Child, Flynn, Clancy, and others will find common cause with the man who must do what it takes to keep his country safe. David Archer's breakthrough series is rampant with action, betrayal, politics, and yes...death. If that makes you feel all warm and cozy inside, be sure to give this series a shot!
- Print length331 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 3, 2022
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101636960871
- ISBN-13978-1636960876
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- Publisher : Right House (March 3, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 331 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1636960871
- ISBN-13 : 978-1636960876
- Item Weight : 13.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
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Executive Summary:
Pros: Imaginative, suspenseful stories, characters you empathize with, James Bond type gadgets and tech
Cons: Poor firearms knowledge, atrocious editing issues
I like these a lot, but IMO, they are not top quality in the genre, so I gave them a 4 out of 5 star rating. I will finish these and enjoy reading them.
Longer Review:
I am addicted to these types of novels, the Mitch Rapp Series (Vince Flynn), The Scot Harvath series (Brad Thor), the Pike Logan series (Brad Taylor), the Dewey Andreas series (Brad Coes), and perhaps my favorite, the John Milton (et al) series (Mark Dawson). David Archer spins fun stories, with fun characters, that are hard to stop reading, like stopping eating potato chips. So, what are the cons?
Well, many readers of these novels (like me) are gun nuts and we are really bothered (at least I am) by erroneous firearms discussions. In the first book, Archer talked about a .30-06 "sniper rifle" which I found bothersome because the last .30-06 sniper rifles were used at the very beginning of the Viet Nam War and were quickly replaced with .308 Winchester guns (7.62 NATO), which reigned supreme for the next 40-50 years. Now we are starting to see the .300 Winchester magnum replace the .308, and we are seeing more semi-automatic sniper rifles in .308 but why mention a sniper round that has not seen action in over 50 years. It just bugged me. In a later novel, Archer had the villain using an LMT 308 rifle, and I thought, "Great, a really nice, modern weapon!" But he talked about the shooter "working the bolt rapidly" to shoot down a drone. The LMT 308 is a semi-auto rifle, you don't work the bolt. SMH.
I love the weapons discussions in Brad Taylor's books, but he spent a career as a special operations officer and knows his guns. Mark Dawson was not military, but he cared enough to find some British special operations experts to advise him on weapons, and he does an excellent job! I was really bothered by this, and I'm sure others who are weapons-literate will be, also.
On the editing front there are all sorts of things that go wrong, some, I suspect, from dictation (speech to text technology) errors. For instance a central character in the books is named Neil, but every so often they spell his name Neal. In one novel the word praising was used in place of phrasing, accident was used in place of accent. There are some story glitches, too, for instance when the main character, Noah Wolf, is supposed to meet a committee of bad guys "that night", but in subsequent paragraphs it flips between talking about the meeting as taking place the next day, or that evening, and ultimately takes place that evening.
Both of these things--the weapons knowledge and the editing issues--should be easy to fix, they seem sloppy to me. But I still recommend these books if you like the genre, if only to fill reading time while you wait for your other favorite characters' next story to be released. They are imaginative, suspenseful and fun reads, despite some of the flaws, I very much enjoy them, and plan to continue reading them.
Facing execution after a mission goes horribly wrong, soldier Noah Wolf is tapped to join a super-secret assassination squad. What makes him special is that Noah suffers from a severe case of PTSD which leaves him emotionless. Like The Terminator, he does not feel pity, remorse, or fear. He will not question orders, struggle with self-doubt, or hesitate to pull the trigger on whoever he is sent to eliminate. In short, he is the perfect killer. Much like Jeff Lindsay's Dexter Morgan, Noah has studied human behavior well enough to fake his way through most social situations, and is given a support team with whom he must learn how to work and bond. The best parts of the book take place here, as the two men and one woman assigned to Noah try to come to grips with having a leader who's more like a machine than a man.
Being that this is the first entry in a series, it is inevitable that problems exist. While the idea of a robot-like hero was intriguing enough to draw me in, the novelty quickly wore off once I realized that he had no more facets of his personality left to reveal. He is largely reduced to a toy action-figure, being moved from place to place and doing what the plot requires of him. The three members of his team fare a bit better; being fully human, they are given enough depth of character to be interesting but not so much that the main story line gets bogged down by tedious backstories.
The author gets a bit heavy-handed with Noah's myth-making; we are told several times (and reminded, and reminded again) that Noah is a unique individual who is destined for great things, that he displays a proficiency for lateral thinking never before seen, that no other team has ever been entrusted with a mission this important right out of the gate, and so on. I got it the first time, there's no need to bash me over the head. The dialogue is often forced and unnatural; a lot of times it felt as if the men and women were mere talking heads, saying only what needed to be said to move the story along. The author should pay more attention to how real people talk and let each individual's personality come through in their unique choice of words, speech patterns, etc., rather than making them sound as if they're reading from a script. And if you have an aversion to repetitive phrases like I do, your patience will be put to the test, because grinning seems to be the number one activity among all the characters. The book is overflowing with "Noah grinned," "Allison grinned," "Sarah grinned," "Neil grinned," "he said with a grin," "she said, grinning," ad infinitum. No one seemed capable of saying something without also flashing their pearly whites, and by the book's end, my jaw was aching. A good editor should have eliminated such overused descriptions to keep readers from getting distracted.
The book's biggest sin, however, is that despite being marketed as a thriller, there is surprisingly little suspense or excitement to be found. The team is sent to assassinate a Mexican cartel boss who is supposedly very difficult to get to, and his right-hand man is touted as one of the most dangerous men in the country. Noah must go undercover to accomplish his objective, running the risk of being exposed and savagely killed. With the promise of torture and shootouts in the air, it sounds like the perfect recipe for some nail-biting scenes of tension, right? And so the team puts their plan into motion and...it goes off without a hitch. There are no fisticuffs with low-level goons, no wild car chases over dusty roads, not a single shot fired. The boss never raises his voice in anger even once and the menacing second-in-command does little more than push some buttons on his phone. It's like bringing Sauron and Voldemort onstage and then dropping a piano on their heads before they have the chance to utter a single threat. After spending three-fourths of the book building up to the moment of truth for Noah's team, it was a major letdown to not be able to see any of them in action. Some readers may also take issue with Noah's repeated bedding of a hooker while incognito, despite his knowledge that she can't be "a day over fifteen." Yikes.
It may sound as if I didn't care for "Code Name: Camelot" but I still give it three stars because the series does have potential. Noah and his team have an interesting enough group dynamic and I would like to know more about each character's history. I just hope the author remembers to include some real thrills in his next story and eases up on all the smiling.