Black opps and writing productivity

4 April

Very tired yesterday, even with me CPAP in use. Kile is now with us and we have him here till Thursday.

For Reading Addicts is a Facebook group I read regularly and contribute to fairly often too. One way to contribute is to write reviews of books we have read. I’ve just submitted on World Without End by Chris Mooney. It’s another three for a fiver book I picked up from the Works bookshop. Here is that review …

‘World Without End

Chris Mooney

An interesting book this one, telling the story of a CIA black opps operative on a long term job to encourage and protect an IT specialist who is developing an ‘invisibility suite’ for the US Army. But who is the real enemy here? The story begins five years before the main events told here when a new laser rifle that can blind whoever it is aimed at, is stolen. That time he saved by one of his team. What he doesn’t know is that not only are there enemies after him, but one of them is actually protecting him at the same time.

The black opps guy, Stephen Conway is set the task with the thought at the back of his mind that the enemy is a man called Angel Eyes. The task of protection the suite and designer is made more and more difficult because of a leak within his group, so finding and plugging the leak becomes a serious part of the overall task. This happens when the suit designer is kidnapped and the suite is stolen. A number of innocent people die, while three complete black opps teams are killed at the same time in various places, all part of Conway’s plan.

One person survives though, and becomes clear that there is a third party who is interested in the suite, this time a brutal Russian mafia gang. But which group is which and where do the lines smear and merge? And that is another twist in the tale.  

Seeing as this is another new writer for me, I obviously don’t know much about him, but I wonder if he had a bad time from his father when he was child; he certainly made a point of giving most of his characters really bad fathers. One sits back and watches while his daughter is raped but a brut of man, not one but twice. He also does nothing when the girls ear is burned off by the man after one of the rapes. This train of bad-ass dads continues with so many the main players, including Angel Eyes himself.

I enjoyed this one and will look out for his six other stories whenever I am out and about. It’s written in an easy style that I like, rather than the heavy voice of some many other writers, so go on fellow readers, if you get the chance, grab it and have a read.’  

And I have a feeling two more will get done later today too, one of them of them is e-book by Simon Whaley an author and writing tutor, who also manages to take pretty good photo, many of which appear on the weather forecast on BBC Midlands Today. This book is about the use of Wunderlist, a productivity program for everyone, but Simon has adapted it for his writing related activities. We’ll see later …  

But there again, I want to get on and get some more work done on Arathusia too. Every so often on here I give a word count for it. And each time I have greatly over estimated it. A look at the open file now shows a word count of 47,750; so not so bad really. And to think, I tried to give this one away. Thankfully to my writer friends on Facebook, I have cracked on with it; so thank you good buddies.

Today’s photo …

The girl of my dreams who lets me live with her every day; thanks for that Jan. Lover yer loads.     

Today’s funny …

What do you call small Indian guitars?
Baby sitars.