Sargent Major Eric Moyer, along with a top notch Special Ops team, is called on to protect the country’s technology at great risk to their own safety.
As they covertly enter Russia, the American team races to beat the Chinese, who knocked down the satellite in the first place, and the Russians, who would love nothing more than to gain access to ground-breaking technology at America’s expense.
Meanwhile, a family member of one of the team’s men is taken hostage, which only adds to the stress and difficulty of the mission. Who will get to the satellite first and who will survive?
I’ve long been a fan of Alton Gansky. He has written a wide variety of suspense novels, some co-written. This is another in a long line of great stories. I’m not a military aficionado and yet I enjoyed it immensely, finding it very believable with good yet flawed characters. Struecker and Gansky evidently worked very well together, no matter how the writing was shared in the making of this book. They successfully constructed an entertaining and realistic tale that I think most anyone could enjoy.
The only thing I didn’t care for plot wise was after the conclusion of the mission, near the end of the story, when a search went on for a military mole. I won’t say it was unneeded, because it put a face to an information leak, but it was a little anti-climactic considering all the action that had previously taken place.
Special Ops teams have been in the news a lot lately, which may cause even more readers to pick up this book. Though not overly violent, Fallen Angel still gives the reader a look into the harrowing lives of the men in Spec Ops and makes them realize even more how much we owe them.
