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Chris Ryan
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Pages: 384 (Mass Market Paperback)
ISBN: 0099492148
Pub: Arrow Books Ltd
Pub date: 2007-05-24
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 86802
Reader Reviews:
Good book but with crappy end (0/0 people found this helpful)
Preview
This is the second Chris Ryan book next to The One That Got Away. I have read The One That Got Away and it was excellent about the first hand experience which he went on the Guiness Record for escaping 290 kilometres from Iraq to Syria. Before I red the Ultimate Weapon, I was hoping that I would get a very good book about a small Special Force Team, which turn out, however, not to be as good as it seems to be.
Feelings
At first when I read this book, it was very boring. It started with a walk in the mountains to the mission where Jed was pinned down. Not until Chapter 18 that the book's tension began to grow, and then went to the climax where they both raced around Iraq, battled the Republican Guards and managed to rescue Sarah and take out one of their agents. Then the ending was a crappy one. It ends with the Firm driving them to the hotel and let Jed and Sarah to their honeymoon, without telling what happened to the other main character.
It is also wrong that in fact a T-55 tank loads its guns faster than 45 seconds and it turns its turret faster than it does in the story. Thus, Nick Scott, despite being badly wounded on the leg, can still trek up on the mountain. This is a serious fault done by this book as a man, after being wounded by the leg, cannot trek up a mountain. Also, by then when he reaches Turkey, he would be dead because he has lost so much pints of blood.
Overall the book is good, although the author needs to think more humanly as the trek up the mountain with a wounded leg is impossible. He also needs to spend more time checking on the technical information, not to get most of them wrong.
5 stars for the entire story but costs one star for a crappy ending, wrong technology informations and not-humanly ordeal.
Ending
If you are an SAS or other special force fans, this is the book for you. If you are a battle fans, or whatever related to war and small-arms, this is the book for you. Simply this is a good book, although it needs a few improvements of course. It's not as good as some of the Chris Ryan's books but it's certainly not the worse. I heartily recommend this book for all the military lovers to read.
Disappointed (1/1 people found this helpful)
After the previous one I told myself no more C.R. But, when I saw "Ultimate Weapon" in a bookstore, I decided to give it a chance. Now I know it was not a good decision. The story is one of the worst I have read. For me Mr. Ryan has significantly lowered his standards and his book are no more worth my time. I don't enjoy them. I struggled very hard to get to the end and finally ...I gave up.
Look elsewhere for a good read.
An Excellent read (1/1 people found this helpful)
I have read a lot of the Chris Ryan books and i must say this one was great i just wanted to keep reading and reading story line was great and the action was gripping but the end seemed to fade a little but overall a great book
One To Many (2/3 people found this helpful)
Sorry Chris this was rubbish!.I have read all of your books and this was one to many as far as I am concerned.The two main characters getting severe beatings and injuries every single day but still carry on as though nothing is wrong,get in the real world Chris, any one of there injuries would have laid us mere mortals up for months in hospital.
Gripping, Realistically Detailed and Entertaining (1/2 people found this helpful)
Very good book with some good twists, the usual accurate military insight making it completely gripping.
The only weak point in my view was the final twist in the epilogue, not quite sure how it tied in with earlier events in the book as it just seemed to be there to make up for the dodgy science, would have been better if the motives were clearly explained as it is not at all obvious.
Outstanding entertainment value and would make a cracking film if plot was clarified!!
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