An Ending, a Beginning

As you approach the ending of a book you’re reading, you often can begin to notice technical errors, mostly misspellings. Seems the printer wants to get the job done as soon as possible. But I met a whopper last night as I finished reading The Cobra. Forsyth refers to Flagstaff as the capital of Arizona! Of course, he’s British, but he must have atlases in his workspace. And seems no one at the publisher’s caught it. Now let me inform you, Liverpool is the capital of England. How would he like that?

But The Cobra is a good book. I went from those Little Bird helicopters, smuggling boats, and big ships right into Black Hawks in the true story In the Company of Heroes. So I knew exactly what this author, Michael Durant, was talking about. I thought I would read just through the prologue in this one to get a head start—it was almost 2:00 a. m.—but that prologue was 25 pages long. I got that job done and still got to bed by 2:00. (I prefer short prologues, don’t you?)

I highly recommend The Cobra. The titles to the sections—COIL, HISS, STRIKE, VENOM—were indeed well-chosen.

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