BW Media Spotlight

Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapter for this one) of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.

In our last installment we were told about the new evil Op-Center. I’m guessing we’ll meet the team this week, but to keep these intro segments genuine I haven’t read it yet.

I still maintain that this is the wrong book to be doing the evil opposite storyline. Our introduction to the team wasn’t the best. They barely won, and that was after all the internal squabbling and questionable morality we saw on display, plus we were told their first mission was a failure. So we’ve only seen their second assignment, and they barely succeeded.

It would have been better to save this for a few books, get the team’s mojo together, have some more definite victories, and then have a counterpoint to the good Op-Center with Commie Op-Center. Make it a real challenge for a team who finally showed they had what it takes to stop the villains, rather than a group we’ve only seen as incompetent thus far, unable to work together or sometimes even get along, even during a crisis. It’s supposed to be a crisis response team, but the real crisis was them. And a bombing, but other people not tied to Op-Center did a better job dealing with that for most of the book.

Let’s see what we can learn about Commie Op-Center this chapter. Yes, I’m still calling them that.

Chapter Two: Saturday, 10:30 AM, Moscow

And we still don’t know if they’re using local time or America Op-Center time.

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