This book is very much geared toward men. It was not something that I would enjoy and I abandoned it early on. The rating is the cumulative rating for it on Amazon.It is about Nathan McBride a Marine scout sniper vet. He is independently wealthy (dad's a Senator), and he owns a security company. And like Digger, he encounters a female law enforcement type (FBI SAC) who becomes close professionally and personally. (See also Andrew Britton.) Oh well, he's still a great creation and, if there weren't a lingering sense of been there, done that, I would have rated this first novel five stars. I kept thinking, this guy is another Jack Reacher: big, competent ... you know. But while Reacher is pretty unflappable and supremely self-confident (he doesn't see his bizarre, nomadic life style as odd in any way), McBride is scarred inside and out from three weeks of horrible tortures in Nicaragua that ended his career. His size, which is almost identical to Reacher's, is far less important to how people see him than are his facial scars, and while Reacher is absolutely a loner, McBride depends on his best friend a lot.

Too much military and violence for my taste but I would say the guys will probably love this. It is rated a 4 out of 5 by most readers.

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