It had the opposite effect on me, giving the impression of an arrogant swashbuckler who’d be foolishly overconfident if not for plot shields.
He spends the entire first-person book monologing repeatedly about how awesome special forces are and how awesome he is. The second and bigger problem is that the main character is totally insufferable. Finally, realism or not, it isn’t the best written. It also has a lot of “have your cake and eat it too”, such as one scene where it’s mentioned how hard it is to shoot down a helicopter with an unguided weapon-but oh look, they did it anyway. Axis Of Evil invasions and Freemason-operated super-bunkers do not exactly go well with detailed, nominally realistic operations. I can’t blame a genuine veteran for writing what he knows, but come on. The first problem is that the action in this book is too realistic for its own good. Then they fight back with the aid of a Freemason counter-conspiracy. After the EVIL LIBERAL GUN GRABBERS have had their way with the US, the enemy alliance swoops in with computer attacks and unconventional warfare that naturally goes off without a hitch, save for the intervention of the special forces vets who’ve planned and built the lairs and stockpiled the equipment needed (against the advice of their nagging wives, of course). The plot is the same kind of basic invasion novel plot that was old when Teddy Roosevelt was young.
The bad news about this book is that Lewis is a Special Forces veteran who brings his biases to it.
The good news about this book is that Lewis is a Special Forces veteran who brings his knowledge to it. Robert Patrick Lewis’ The Pact is the tale of Special Forces operators representing the only viable defense against a Russian-Chinese-Iranian invasion of the United States.
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