Tiger By The Tail Limited Signed Edition (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
After five years, John Ringo finally comes out with the next installment of his Paladin of the Shadows series. Only this time, the setting is not in Europe and Ringo is not the only author. Not sure why there are multiple authors; perhaps because other writers liked it and want to collaborate. Perhaps the publishers "assigned" writers to him for various reasons.My biggest question: "Why Asia?" In case the author(s) haven't noticed, blond and red hair, blue eyes, muscular men with American style commando training cannot blend in here. Or maybe, the authors did noticed and ignored it just so they can have different types of missions than infiltration and reconnaissance followed by direct action as they did so well in the previous books. With the exceptions of the first book, the Keldara had home court advantage. In this book, they don't but somehow still prevail because they're insane. I wonder what will happen in book 7? Will they go back to Europe and the Caucasus Mountains? Will they go on another Asian romp? When Ringo wrote the first five books, the POTUS alluded to is Bush (whatever you think of it, he was the right president in favor of proactive counter terrorism.) The current president in book six does not sound like Obama; perhaps in an alternate universe? The man sounds more like a John McCain... or Bush won an unprecedented (and unconstitutional) third term.Lastly, I hated the character Soon Yi. First, that name sounds more Korean than Chinese. Second, her role sucked. She ended tortured and mutilated by the end by the enemy. Death would have been kinder. I noticed the body count by the good guys was low, possibly too low. Meanwhile, Katya becomes a bit more likeable and way more useful. Mike is so awesome, as warrior and as sex god, that he runs the danger of being an Ultimate Guy's Mary-Sue leading character. Fortunately for this reader, he falls short of this danger in two ways. First, he gets seriously (and very humanly) crushed by PTSD at the deaths of his closest people. Second, there are one or two other Baen authors who outrun him by light-years.Having said all this, I enjoyed this action-adventure story.
What do You think about Tiger By The Tail Limited Signed Edition (2013)?
This one was pretty good, but the descriptions of torture and violence were a bit off-putting.
—Tiffany
Not quite as good as earlier books in the series but still an adrenaline ride of action.
—caro
A typical Ringo military adventure (plenty of guns and sex) set in Southeast Asia.
—helen255
meh..you keep turning the pages and then you are done. harmless time waster
—will
