Daniel da Cruz (1921–1991)

As I sink more & more into senility (no longer precociously so), I might just read more & more bks like this. Actually, I enjoyed it just fine. I have a deep affection for stories like this, the stories written by authors who'll probably never be popular like Michael Crichton is b/c their plots are just a little too silly.. or cheesy.. or ridiculous. The plots that're based more in imagination & fancy than they are on the latest technological blah-blah. A helicopter containing a stolen army show more payroll crashes near a jungle & some underground insectoid/humanoid creatures swarm over it, people get taken into their queendom, there's fighting, spicy dialog, love interest. It's all good-natured fun. show less

This book is a blast if you're a musician and like sci-fi, especially time travel. I don't want to spoil it, but it involves grabbing and curing Schubert from his deathbed. Fun

3372. Boot, by Daniel Da Cruz (read Nov. 25, 2000) When about a year ago I read Making the Corps, by Thomas E. Ricks, I was so impressed by it. Then I read reviews on Amazon which said Boot was a much better book on Marine boot camp. So when I saw the book I read it. They are wrong. Making the Corps is far and away the better book, at least for someone who wants to reflect a bit on the process. Boot describes the minutiae of the training more, and so someone who went thru Marine boot might show more get more from it than did I, but Making the Corps is a broader view, without the right-wing potshots Boot throws in. show less

I liked the first couple of books in the series, but did not care for this one much.
There was some good cloak & dagger stuff, although it was not as interesting to me as the straight-forward "down with the Russkies" adventure of the first in the series, but I didn't like the principle characters, and thought the McGuffin unwieldy.

The science foundation was intriguing but iffy.