Dragonslayers: Mind Games

by K. Rowe, Joyce Gilmour (Editor), Erika Brown (Illustrator)

Al-Qaeda has a brand new weapon in their war of a deadly unconventional explosive. The U.S. government can’t figure out what it is, or where al-Qaeda is getting it, until two men try and help solve the mystery. Newly recruited Dragonslayer, Captain Cabbott Westmoreland is the number one sniper in the world. Years of hunting animals and humans have sharpened his senses to amazing proportions. He must use those skills to unravel a major plot by al-Qaeda. Can he do it? Or will some personal blunders cost the lives of thousands across the globe? Time is of the essence if they are going to stop the attacks. Lieutenant Jake Collins finds the other piece of the puzzle. His jaded, bad-boy past helps uncover the source of the explosives. Now it’s time to take the fight back to the terrorists. The team, along with their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Eagle Tryggvesson has to coordinate with other Special Forces units and government agencies to strike a blow to the heart of al-Qaeda. The thrilling sequel to DRAGONSLAYERS, it continues the saga of the unlikely Special Forces team thrown head first into the world of counter-terrorism. Battling forces seen and unseen, they use technological advances to gain the upper hand against their enemies.Praise for “Terrorism and discrimination rolled into one interesting and very tangled story. Ms. Rowe weaves the two seemingly unrelated subjects into an excellent story, filled with suspense that leaves the reader anxiously looking forward to turning the page.”--Jim Greenwald, Lead Reviewer, Military Writer’s Society of America

587 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 23, 2010

About the author

I'm just finishing up 20 years in the Air Force. I write a variety of genres: military thriller, romance, sci-fi, supernatural thriller, horror, and fantasy.

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Reviews

[Scribblesinink (Scribbler) · Rating 1 out of 5]

I must've gotten this book during a Smashwords promotion as it's been sitting on my e-reader for some time. I must've liked the premise enough to download it, and I decided to give it a try last night. Unfortunately, I won't be reading beyond the first chapter.

As this is the second novel in a series, two characters reminisce out loud about "what went on before" to one another in the first few pages. But I find an infodump where characters tell one another things they both already know a bad trick. On top of that, it left me still clueless, and just more confused.

A few pages further on, I get to "meet the team" over a team dinner. Alas, at the end of that scene I still have no real sense of who these people are, what makes them tick, or what their quirks or habits are. I do, however, know who is tallest or smallest, youngest or oldest, and who has the brown eyes.

When we get to meet the bad guys, the story again misses a perfect opportunity to allow the reader into the heads of the characters and let the reader discover for themselves what might make these guys do what they're planning. Again, I'm being *told*, not shown.

Combined with several instances of "head-hopping" I also caught in the first chapter, and a strong suspicion that the rest of the tale will force the characters to do whatever the plot requires, without really exploring their deeper motives as to *why* they would act the way they do, I have deleted the story from my reader.