Simon's Reviews > Invasion

** spoiler alert ** An enjoyable read although I have to admit that I always struggle when authors use vague amorphous military capabilities rather than ones based in fact/science, I'm probably more from the Tom Clancy/Larry Bond genre. Reads like this I find a little surreal, the characters not quite real, perhaps created by someone with limited experience of high-level politics and diplomacy and/or the military.

I don't usually include spoilers in my reviews but in this case I can't really avoid it as the conclusion to the story was so templated. Sadly many of these US versus another super-power/WW3 stories tend to end with the adversary undergoing a coup or other change of political philosophy to adopt a way of thinking more like our own. The first few times, it's novel but after a while it just drags - surely there must be other plot tools to resolve WW3?

I've enjoyed all Eric L. Harry's books that I have read but, of all of them, this is probably the one I would be least likely to reread as it (IMHO) lacks the original plots of others like Protect and Defend and Society of the Mind.