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3.31 AVERAGE
3.31 AVERAGE
Awesome read. It is nice to read a book of this type that is not Christian, yet has no cursing or inappropriate content. I loved the characters, especially Nick and Quinn. The plot was great, and I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Looking forward to reading book 2
OK, but not great. It took a while to get going. I didn't care a lot about the characters, they didn't seem fully three dimensional. The character development comes in one paragraph: Nick B has an epiphany. Lots of action, and it's all about the plot. At the end it felt like "3 guys defeat Chinese military" in an action scene that might have taken 15 minutes. Very clear lines of good vs. evil, therefore it's hard not to cheer for the good guys. I did finish the book, but I will think long and hard before reading another by this author. Sorry, but it wasn't my "cup of tea."
Wow, I never expected anything half this good. I had picked it based on it's title and didn't expect much, in fact I almost had dropped it after the first few chapters. I'm glad I didn't.
The characters felt genuine, their baggage was reasonable, and their interactions with each other felt real. Nick was a great hero, he was neither perfect or crass like other characters in thrillers.
This is the first book in a while (especially from a thriller) where I couldn't put it down, I was sympathetic and even sad towards some of the characters, and where my heart was literally beating out of my chest and I couldn't read the words fast enough.
Overall I'm very impressed by the author. I'll admit the ending was pretty cheesy, but I'll let it slide. I'm defiitely going to read more books by him.
The characters felt genuine, their baggage was reasonable, and their interactions with each other felt real. Nick was a great hero, he was neither perfect or crass like other characters in thrillers.
This is the first book in a while (especially from a thriller) where I couldn't put it down, I was sympathetic and even sad towards some of the characters, and where my heart was literally beating out of my chest and I couldn't read the words fast enough.
Overall I'm very impressed by the author. I'll admit the ending was pretty cheesy, but I'll let it slide. I'm defiitely going to read more books by him.
If you like military thrillers and special op novels, this is the book for you. But if you don't know much about airplanes or special ops, the story will get lost in all the details.
Not much character development either.
It still was an interesting story and I wouldn't necessarily not recommend ;)
Not much character development either.
It still was an interesting story and I wouldn't necessarily not recommend ;)
“They were not supposed to be there.”
“Nick and Quinn were about to take an untested aircraft into the heavily defended airspace of a sovereign country, a country that the United States at least pretended to be friends with.” “There would be no rescue if the mission suddenly went pear-shaped.” Well, no reader fond of techno-thrillers and geo-political potboilers could deny that Hannibal conceived of a plot scenario that contained a world of possibilities. A compromised stealth jet mission into Chinese territory to rescue an American prisoner captured during a previously failed espionage mission falls afoul of a megalomaniacal rogue Chinese general with world dominance in mind starting with a unilateral re-establishment of Chinese dominance over Taiwan! Intriguing, don’t you think?
That’s where the quality of Shadow Catcher started and, sadly, that’s also where it ended.
The dialogue is stilted, the characters are cartoonish and stereotypical in the extreme, and the action sequences are so beyond realistic that they would undoubtedly embarrass Rambo screenplay writers whose segments got rejected because they were too absurd. Hannibal even shoehorned in an opportunity to give the American gods praise for the existence of the 2nd Amendment. Puhleez! Did you really have to do that?
When I first found Shadow Catchers and read that plot outline, I had high hopes that I had found a sequence of novels I could add to my groaning TBR shelves. But, that isn’t going to happen and my copy of Shadow Catchers is on its way to the nearest Little Free Library box to find the next unsuspecting victim. Larry Bond and Dale Brown still rule.
Not recommended.
Paul Weiss
“Nick and Quinn were about to take an untested aircraft into the heavily defended airspace of a sovereign country, a country that the United States at least pretended to be friends with.” “There would be no rescue if the mission suddenly went pear-shaped.” Well, no reader fond of techno-thrillers and geo-political potboilers could deny that Hannibal conceived of a plot scenario that contained a world of possibilities. A compromised stealth jet mission into Chinese territory to rescue an American prisoner captured during a previously failed espionage mission falls afoul of a megalomaniacal rogue Chinese general with world dominance in mind starting with a unilateral re-establishment of Chinese dominance over Taiwan! Intriguing, don’t you think?
That’s where the quality of Shadow Catcher started and, sadly, that’s also where it ended.
The dialogue is stilted, the characters are cartoonish and stereotypical in the extreme, and the action sequences are so beyond realistic that they would undoubtedly embarrass Rambo screenplay writers whose segments got rejected because they were too absurd. Hannibal even shoehorned in an opportunity to give the American gods praise for the existence of the 2nd Amendment. Puhleez! Did you really have to do that?
When I first found Shadow Catchers and read that plot outline, I had high hopes that I had found a sequence of novels I could add to my groaning TBR shelves. But, that isn’t going to happen and my copy of Shadow Catchers is on its way to the nearest Little Free Library box to find the next unsuspecting victim. Larry Bond and Dale Brown still rule.
Not recommended.
Paul Weiss
Leave it to a military man to deliver an action-packed book full of high-tech gadgets and juicy authentic details about the ops.
This is the first book I've read by James R. Hannibal and it will not be my last. I'm looking forward to reading what assignment Triple Seven Chase has to accomplish next!
This is the first book I've read by James R. Hannibal and it will not be my last. I'm looking forward to reading what assignment Triple Seven Chase has to accomplish next!
Leave it to a military man to deliver an action-packed book full of high-tech gadgets and juicy authentic details about the ops.
This is the first book I've read by James R. Hannibal and it will not be my last. I'm looking forward to reading what assignment Triple Seven Chase has to accomplish next!
This is the first book I've read by James R. Hannibal and it will not be my last. I'm looking forward to reading what assignment Triple Seven Chase has to accomplish next!
Great action and suspense! Also, love the narrator on the audio.
Dollycas’s Thoughts
I have Mr. James R. Hannibal to thank for a heck of a book hangover. I started reading this book and couldn’t put it down.
James R. Hannibal is a veteran combat pilot with Top Secret clearance from the U.S. government and he writes what he knows and he does it really well. The thing I really appreciated was this story is written for people like me and the military jargon was kept to a minimum. My husband enjoys Tom Clancy but his stories sometimes read like a military handbook and fail to keep my interest. That is not the case at all with Shadow Catcher. The author had me from page one and held on tight to the very last word.
The book starts out with a prologue from 1988 and then goes into the story in 2013 so you know these things are going to connect and with some very clever twists that is exactly what happens.
Hannibal has created some very engaging characters. Their back stories are meshed into the plot effortlessly. This reader came to care about them very quickly.
The story moves at a breakneck speed so don’t pick it up thinking you are going to read just a chapter or two at a time. It just won’t happen.