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SPOILER ALERT!

Not as good but still readable

Greed : by Chris Ryan (2004-05-27) - Chris Ryan

Matt is going in a mission to go after terrorist money.

 

If he succeeded in his mission, he is going to keep the money he stole from the terrorists. 

 

A fun idea. Half the book is about how the mission is going to be set up.


That's okay. Not exciting. But okay.

 

Spoiler alert. 

 

The next part is the fall out. Someone is killing those who are participating in the mission. Not only killed them but their family too. 

 

This is where I found that the story didn't make much sense.

 

If the killer is killing off children, it would be done by the terrorists and not just some guy they have gone to a mission with. What's the point of killing the family? They didn't have the money, and they would able to claim a share. So the killing off of children should be a sign to the guys that there is an outside force, and this outside force is horrible people that would kill children.

 

Terrorist. And this time, a faithful Islamist doing what he thought is the work of god. 

 

This part is creepy but good. This is what anyone who is not fucked in the head by religion think of the religious who go and killed women and children and still have a good self-esteem and still think of themselves as good men. This is what religion do to a person. One could see this in Al-Qaeda, and ISIS, and Catholic priests. 

 

Anyway, they are like fishes in a barrel to be picked off. They didn't know where the enemy is coming from and didn't suspected the one person that could have betrayed them. 

 

Almost to the end. The "not even putting that person" in the suspect list kind of missed out on my action. 

 

Finally confronting the one who betrayed them. And almost get themselves killed. 

 

Not as smart as the normal lead characters. But still not a bad read. More like a train ride read than a pool side read.