Three Good Suspense Novelists

Reminder to self:  Pick up Stephen Hunter's  novels from the library. 

David Forsmark writing at PJMedia informs us of three writers who, in my opinion, think and write like REAL men.  I have never read Stephen Hunter, but the other two, Michael Connelly and  Alex Berenson, I am pretty familiar with.  The link also has a nice vid of  Dr.Thomas Sowell being interviewed by the Hoover Institute.  Worth your time.

....At its core, Soft Target is a withering media and political satire   that takes fewer prisoners than its hero, Ray Cruz, son of Swagger.

You see, the man in charge of the response to the terror attack is Colonel Douglas Obobo of the Minnesota State Police, whom Hunter describes as a charismatic media darling being pushed to be the first black director of the FBI. Hunter goes on to add he “hadn’t really done anything. His career was primarily a phenomenon of showing up, giving speeches, accepting awards, then moving up to the next level.”

Obobo scoffs that terrorism is the motive for the raid, opining that “other than a few Arabic-styled scarves, there is no evidence for that.”  He goes for negotiations rather than confrontation, while the jihadists — spurred on by a local radical imam who is good at pleading persecution whenever someone objects to his sermons — plan to go out in a blaze of glory, taking their hostages with them.

Ultimately, of course, it turns out it is the terrorists who are trapped in the Mall with Ray Cruz. Soft Target is shorter and more obvious than the average Hunter book, but it’s great fun, fueled by Hunter’s knowledge of weapons and tactics — and his newly revealed sense of outrage...........