Max Velocity

Patriot Dawn pulled me in at the very beginning and had my full attention until reaching the half-way point when the book morphed into an instructors tactical manual - leaving me overwhelmed by military acronyms, road identifications and small unit tactics. A little bit would have been okay, but it continues heavily to the end - pausing for a battle or two. I was lured to this book by the concept of a resistance force trying to save the United States after the government is overthrown and show more tyranny reigns; parts of it read like the aftermath of an apocalypse sans zombies.

The actual battle scenes were full of action, descriptive and made for interesting reading, but the training and prepping seemed to bog the story down. I also thought the final battle would be much longer, instead, it was too short with more summary than detail. Same with the story ending - I've a handful of questions that remain unanswered.

After reading through the reviews- something I did not do prior to reading this book - it seems that readers of the author's earlier book, Contact, and Preppers alike, found this story extremely enjoyable; chock full of information and small unit tactical information for those preparing for a similar, real-life scenario sometime in the future.

I did finish the book and enjoyed the major characters, but would have liked to learn more about the daily life and hardships of those families living underground in the hidden base camp and about those resistance fighters positioned in the nearby triangle support bases. Recommended for all preppers, those wanting to learn about small unit tactics, and those readers of the author's prior book(s). show less