KCR: Tom Clancy's HAWX

This book is simply poorly written, and it's clear that David Michaels is not a single person, but a pseudonym assumed by a variety of writers hired by Ubisoft to pump out novelizations in order to capitalize on their own games. Some of the Splinter Cell novels are quite good. This book simply is lousy.

The plot, created by Tom Clancy and his minions, are a bit of alarmist but fine... Basically, private military corporations, i.e. mercenaries, are made legal and takes over quite a bit of actual operations... at a price. A certain air force pilot was RIFed (i.e. let go) he joined a PMC called Firehawk, then CIA asked him to keep an eye out on Firehawk, which may not be quite up and up. What he finds out later will have serious consequences not only for himself, but for the entire United States...

The plot makes sense, but the characters are shallow, and some of the technical details are wrong. Clearly, Ubisoft and Red Storm have no technical editors to spare on this project. This book is a major disappointment.