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Jack Bass Black Cloud Chronicles #1
In the Line of Ire
Captain Jack Bass becomes the target of hatred and malicious jealousy from his commanding officer. Blaming Jack for his own failings, he sets his sights on Jack as a scapegoat. Fighting for his life, and new found love with Lori Darden, the pair learn how dangerous it can be to raise the ire of a psychopathic boss.
When the chain of command breaks down, Jack Bass fights back and attempts to prevent his world from turning to ash right before his very eyes.
Jack Bass is…
In the Line of Ire.
When the chain of command breaks down, Jack Bass fights back and attempts to prevent his world from turning to ash right before his very eyes.
Jack Bass is…
In the Line of Ire.
278 pages, ebook
First published February 3, 2014
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January 4, 2017
I managed to finish the book, which normally rates at least two stars. However, this book is so bad that I cannot justify that high of a rating.
1) The whole thing starts because a full-bird Army Colonel is concerned that a Captain is going to take his command. There is a reason rank structure exists, and why some jobs require certain rank. A billet filled by a COL is not going to go to a Captain except on a short-term, emergency basis (ie everyone senior is dead or incapacitated). If that is the case, the COL would have other things to worry about (like being dead), rather than a "mere" Captain.
2) Jack and Lori spend more time making goo-goo eyes at each other than practicing medicine.
3) Jack is rather dumb. He knows there is a CID investigation and knows who the investigator is. But rather than tell the investigator what is happening, he and Lori do their own investigations, screw up the official one, and almost get killed.
4) Jumping from Captain to Lt Col in a year is beyond belief.
The writing style reminds me more of a book for pre-teen boys than it does a book for adults. The chapters are very short and choppy. We go from action to action with little downtime between.
1) The whole thing starts because a full-bird Army Colonel is concerned that a Captain is going to take his command. There is a reason rank structure exists, and why some jobs require certain rank. A billet filled by a COL is not going to go to a Captain except on a short-term, emergency basis (ie everyone senior is dead or incapacitated). If that is the case, the COL would have other things to worry about (like being dead), rather than a "mere" Captain.
2) Jack and Lori spend more time making goo-goo eyes at each other than practicing medicine.
3) Jack is rather dumb. He knows there is a CID investigation and knows who the investigator is. But rather than tell the investigator what is happening, he and Lori do their own investigations, screw up the official one, and almost get killed.
4) Jumping from Captain to Lt Col in a year is beyond belief.
The writing style reminds me more of a book for pre-teen boys than it does a book for adults. The chapters are very short and choppy. We go from action to action with little downtime between.
December 21, 2019
Major Jack Bass (MD) and major Lori Darden (a nurse) are deployed in Panama. When a soldier with a live RPG in his chest needs urgent surgery, their CO colonel Blackburn turns up drunk as a skunk. When they send him back to his quarters, the colonel swears revenge. He sends Bass and Darden on a front-line mission and they both get injured, the case is investigated and the colonel gets demoted and Bass receives a medal. This makes Blackburn even madder and he schemes to be Bass's CO once again in Germany. Not only making life hell for him but even trying to murder him.
It was a suspenseful and enjoyable read. Though it was advertised as a medical thriller, it was more a military romance or a mix of both.
It was a suspenseful and enjoyable read. Though it was advertised as a medical thriller, it was more a military romance or a mix of both.
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August 6, 2019Wow what a story
Panama late 1980s . Major Bass and Major Darden are working together in the OR of a field hospital . When they called the CO to come to operate on a wounded soldier he refuses and when pressed showed up reeling drunk . This is the beginning of a terrifying set of events that could cost them their lives as the CO goes on a rampage to destroy Dr Bass.
Panama late 1980s . Major Bass and Major Darden are working together in the OR of a field hospital . When they called the CO to come to operate on a wounded soldier he refuses and when pressed showed up reeling drunk . This is the beginning of a terrifying set of events that could cost them their lives as the CO goes on a rampage to destroy Dr Bass.
August 14, 2019
"A Very Captivating Fictional Story"
This is the first book I've read by this author, who is a doctor himself. His main character is Jack Bass, a military doctor assigned to the front lines along with nurse Major Lori Darden. Along with the warriors they, too, will be fighting for their lives. However, the predator is not an enemy of the nation ... just a pervert enemy of Jack! This is really very awesome, easy and quick to read to become captivated. I totally enjoyed it.
This is the first book I've read by this author, who is a doctor himself. His main character is Jack Bass, a military doctor assigned to the front lines along with nurse Major Lori Darden. Along with the warriors they, too, will be fighting for their lives. However, the predator is not an enemy of the nation ... just a pervert enemy of Jack! This is really very awesome, easy and quick to read to become captivated. I totally enjoyed it.
July 30, 2017
Very good series
I just picked up this book the day before yesterday. Very good start to a series. I’m about to start book two. I highly recommend this one.
I just picked up this book the day before yesterday. Very good start to a series. I’m about to start book two. I highly recommend this one.
August 3, 2017
This book was beyond awful. I would suggest if you are going to write about the military, you might do a tad bit of research on the military.
October 24, 2018
Great medical thriller
Very enjoyable read. It went so fast. I'm off to read the second book in this series. Lots of ups and downs. Fun characters. I recommend this book.
Very enjoyable read. It went so fast. I'm off to read the second book in this series. Lots of ups and downs. Fun characters. I recommend this book.
March 9, 2019
Way way to long this story, took me forever to try and finish it. Only 1 star. A waste of time
June 19, 2019
Doctors in the Army
Story of one doctors trials with a CO that hated him. How he coped and found a female friend to help him through the thought times.
Story of one doctors trials with a CO that hated him. How he coped and found a female friend to help him through the thought times.
August 11, 2019
"Not for me"
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October 29, 2019
Hard read
Not as good as I had anticipated, but once you start reading it gets better. Make sure to have time to read chapter as a time
Not as good as I had anticipated, but once you start reading it gets better. Make sure to have time to read chapter as a time
November 29, 2019
Psych
Tell me you don't kill Lori off I will be so Pissed Off!!!!! It was a great suspenseful story with such a warm offset to the tragedy that kept harassing the major characters.
Tell me you don't kill Lori off I will be so Pissed Off!!!!! It was a great suspenseful story with such a warm offset to the tragedy that kept harassing the major characters.
May 14, 2021
This is the first book I’ve read by this author, and was pleasantly surprised. The entire story and characters seemed to flow very well, and the subject matter was polished and captivating.
February 21, 2014
The characters in this book are a bit shallow. The antagonist, Colonel Blackburn, reminds me of a mix between Dr. Horrible and a $.10 comic villain. How many times will he throw his head back and laugh maniacally? Very overdone. He's a joke, and you know his plans aren't going to work. It's like watching Wile E. Coyote try to catch The Roadrunner. The protagonist, Jack Bass, is a shy, quiet, rule-follower who ends up shooting a man in the leg as he runs away from him. The same man he jumped in an alley. It didn't fit his character. Then we have a starred general who makes the psycho villain APOLOGIZE to Dr. Bass after kidnapping him and his girlfriend and trying to murder them in the mountains. Really???? That might be the dumbest thing I've ever read. Dr. Bass also shares stories of his traumatic, abuse-filled childhood with a nurse he just worked with one time. People don't do that. characters who are said to be closed off and quiet don't spill their guts about their abusive fathers to people they hardly know.
The author doesn't have a very broad vocabulary as evidenced by his over-use of the word "ire" which no one actually uses that much. Dasso also seems to get stuck on a word and use it several times in one dialogue exchange. Maybe he doesn't own a thesaurus. The use of italics is also confusing. Italicized words pepper the entire story, often several words in one paragraph. Why? It's simply not necessary.
The story is an interesting one, though it seems to fall short of real suspense. You know that Jack is going to live through whatever Backburn throws at him, and you know Blackburn will try something else. The medical scenes were very interesting, and it's clear Dasso has real experience here. I really enjoyed reading Jack and Lori working together in the OR. Their dynamic made the book for me, though most of the time, they were only together for limited periods of time.
This book isn't terrible, but it is a bit rough and obviously self-published. I enjoyed parts of it, but then other parts frustrated me to understand why a character would do or say a certain thing. And I'm still confused as to why the general wanted Blackburn to apologize for trying to kills Bass and Lori! Ugh!
The author doesn't have a very broad vocabulary as evidenced by his over-use of the word "ire" which no one actually uses that much. Dasso also seems to get stuck on a word and use it several times in one dialogue exchange. Maybe he doesn't own a thesaurus. The use of italics is also confusing. Italicized words pepper the entire story, often several words in one paragraph. Why? It's simply not necessary.
The story is an interesting one, though it seems to fall short of real suspense. You know that Jack is going to live through whatever Backburn throws at him, and you know Blackburn will try something else. The medical scenes were very interesting, and it's clear Dasso has real experience here. I really enjoyed reading Jack and Lori working together in the OR. Their dynamic made the book for me, though most of the time, they were only together for limited periods of time.
This book isn't terrible, but it is a bit rough and obviously self-published. I enjoyed parts of it, but then other parts frustrated me to understand why a character would do or say a certain thing. And I'm still confused as to why the general wanted Blackburn to apologize for trying to kills Bass and Lori! Ugh!
March 1, 2014
In In The Line of Ire, the prequel to Dr. Edwin Dasso's novel Past Aghast, readers learn the story behind Major Jack Bass and his beginnings as a medic in the Army in the late 1980s-90s.
It talks about how he met Lori Darden, the niece of his boss, General Smithson, and how they both crossed the wrong man: Colonel Blackburn, AKA The Cutter.
When Blackburn turns up drunk to the OR one nightand they report it, they open a deep can of worms...and these worms bite.
It's a tale of honor, revenge, anger, life, death and love, all wrapped up in one short and sweet package with impeccable writing style.
Each character is well written and very refined, and the reader can tell that some of the situations were taken straight from real life when Dr. Dasso was in the medical field.
It's not a novel for most fans of "The Good Wife", as it is very deep and dark, showing the bad sides of both war and humanityin stark detail.
Usually, when a novel uses excessive cursing I mark it down, but here it is not just well-placed, but necessary to the story.
I loved reading this book and am glad to be a part of Pubshelf's affiliated blogger network so that I was able to discover this book.
5/5--wonderful!
It talks about how he met Lori Darden, the niece of his boss, General Smithson, and how they both crossed the wrong man: Colonel Blackburn, AKA The Cutter.
When Blackburn turns up drunk to the OR one nightand they report it, they open a deep can of worms...and these worms bite.
It's a tale of honor, revenge, anger, life, death and love, all wrapped up in one short and sweet package with impeccable writing style.
Each character is well written and very refined, and the reader can tell that some of the situations were taken straight from real life when Dr. Dasso was in the medical field.
It's not a novel for most fans of "The Good Wife", as it is very deep and dark, showing the bad sides of both war and humanityin stark detail.
Usually, when a novel uses excessive cursing I mark it down, but here it is not just well-placed, but necessary to the story.
I loved reading this book and am glad to be a part of Pubshelf's affiliated blogger network so that I was able to discover this book.
5/5--wonderful!
March 17, 2014
Having read the first Jack Bass story I was keen to find out more about this courageous and enigmatic character. In the Line of Ire gave me the answers I was looking for as to what motivates Jack, the demons that he faces and the loves in his life. Ed Dasso has skilfully sculpted Jack and his love Lori as he puts them in a series of dangerous and at the same heroic situations all based around their military careers in field hospitals in war zones. When they have to confront a controlling, alcoholic commanding officer, he blames them for the consequences he faces, including demotion. From then on, he makes it his personal mission to place Jack and Lori in the most hopeless of situations where he hopes that they will perish. This prequel is a real roller coaster and I couldn't put it down. I've thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Jack and Lori but it does make it even more sad when you reflect on what happened in the first chronicle and it's poignant to think that they don't get the happy ever after that they deserved.
October 31, 2016
This medical-military mystery had an interesting premise – a military doctor suffers the wrath of an egotistical superior officer. It started well with the main characters – Major Jack Bass and Major Lori Darden – thrown into a dangerous situation early in the story. And Jack faces repeated danger throughout the story.
Dasso does a great job narrating action scenes but between them, the story drags. It seems as if he had a lot of ideas he wanted in the story but couldn’t quite mesh into a smooth whole, leaving the story with a disjointed feel.
This download had many ‘execution’ errors – missing words and the like. It also had one major continuity error: The main character is addressed as ‘Major Bass’ long before he’s promoted to the rank. Had this happened once, I would have dismissed it as another execution error, but it happened repeatedly. People in the military may address an officer by the wrong rank once but they don’t make that mistake twice.
This is a novel full of potential that it never reached. So I won’t be back for more of Jack Bass’s adventures.
Dasso does a great job narrating action scenes but between them, the story drags. It seems as if he had a lot of ideas he wanted in the story but couldn’t quite mesh into a smooth whole, leaving the story with a disjointed feel.
This download had many ‘execution’ errors – missing words and the like. It also had one major continuity error: The main character is addressed as ‘Major Bass’ long before he’s promoted to the rank. Had this happened once, I would have dismissed it as another execution error, but it happened repeatedly. People in the military may address an officer by the wrong rank once but they don’t make that mistake twice.
This is a novel full of potential that it never reached. So I won’t be back for more of Jack Bass’s adventures.
February 21, 2014
The setting and the characters of “In the Line of Ire”, a fictional novel written by Dasso Edwin has definitely intrigued me from the very beginning. The protagonist Dr. Jack Bass is a captain officer triage OD in an operating military base medical unit, he is under the command of a perverse Colonel Dr. Blackburn. Jack is a passionate and brave doctor, a hard worker who is always trying to save wounded soldiers by hook or by crook. This situation is somehow bothering the Colonel as he sees Jack as a threat for his position. He started to jealously mistreat Jack, negatively argue about anything he does. In such a strained situation, the author depicts the daily life of jealousy colonel against a devoted captain who also feels in love with Lisa. I’m still reading and I highly recommend it as must read!
February 21, 2014
Set in a time of War and uprising, in the Line of Ire is a riveting novel filled with suspense and mystery. It explores being betrayed by the ones you trust or the ones that have authority over you. This novel explores fighting for ones right and ones freedom in a cruel world of jealousy and hatred. It also shows that even in an ugly world or in the hopelessness of any situation, Love can still be found as portrayed in the relationship between Jack and Lori. This is a must read. I suggest you get in your comfort spot, pull up some popcorn and start reading!
June 16, 2019
IN THE LINE OF IRE by Edwin Dasso. A new author for me, and he does a good job of keeping you interested from beginning to end. This shows the demons that Jack is confronting, and the romance with Lori. Of Jack wondering about the hatred that Blackburn had, that motives a person to kill. It is action packed, the medical is believable ,a mix of mystery and romance. A good good read for all to enjoy. Given ARC for my voluntary review and my honest opinion.
February 22, 2014
This is a good book. I find that it brings out the issues that people face with those around them that questions trustworthiness, honor and more. Great prequel to the author's book, Past Aghast. Great read. I would definitely recommend it.
November 21, 2018
An action packed medical suspense that was kept one guessing, how will he get out of this one! I enjoyed the ride. I like the writing style of Edwin Dasso and look forward to reading more of his stories. Loved the title.
August 30, 2016
Excellent story!
An engrossing story with believable and likable characters. The story moves quickly and the resolution was effective. Looking forward to more Dr. Bass stories.
An engrossing story with believable and likable characters. The story moves quickly and the resolution was effective. Looking forward to more Dr. Bass stories.
October 26, 2016
What a great read, from start to finish. I couldn't put it down, the descriptions were so realistic you felt like it was real. Ready to read the next book.
October 27, 2016
Very good book
Keeps you going beginning to end. Makes you glad your no in the service. But could happen here too no one is safe.
Keeps you going beginning to end. Makes you glad your no in the service. But could happen here too no one is safe.
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