Book read. Vince Flynn Capture or Kill.

New author for the Vince Flynn series Don Bentley goes back to 2011 to answer; Did Mitch Rapp assassinate Osama bin Laden?

While this question eventually gets answered, one remains.

Which ZT folding knife did Rapp carry?

A lower caliber Tom Clancy. Quick review of Tom Clancy Shadow State (A Jack Ryan Jr. novel) by M.P. Woodward

 While the book is entertaining overall, Navy veteran M.P.Woodward makes some distracting mistakes in reference to firearms, a key element in a military thriller. He references 7.62 ammunition used in an M4 which typically is chambered in 5.56.  The heroes later load up on 200 rounds of “five-six-two” for weapons that again use 5.56.  He references a “clip” for a Makarov pistol instead of a magazine.  These basic errors that could have been avoided by a few minutes on the internet leads me to believe that M.P. Woodward just doesn’t know jack.

Run on sentence book review - “the Gathering by C.J. Tudor “

 It stinks that a decent story about vampyrs (vampires!) is marred by the British author’s inability to immerse the reader in the Alaska setting by using British English though to Americans, incessant, inauthentic use of the word “smelt” refers to fish, not odor.

Something Betty part 1 plus a recall

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2024/Medline-Industries-Recalls-1-5-Million-Adult-Portable-Bed-Rails-Due-to-Serious-Entrapment-and-Asphyxia-Hazards-Two-Deaths-Reported

-“Hi mom.”

“Why did you tell your brother to take away my bed rail?” -

- “It’s been recalled due to an entrapment and asphyxia hazard and two people have died.”

           

 “Yes but I need it to get up.” -