ROBERT DOHERTY is a pen name for Bob Mayer. He grew up in New York City, graduated from West Point and spent twenty years on active and reserve duty in the Infantry and Green Berets. Mayer has over thirty books published under his own name and four pen names. There are over two million copies of his books in print and he is published in a dozen foreign countries. His Area 51 books have been consistent USA Today Bestsellers. A screenplay based on Area 51 has been written by the same writer who wrote the screenplay for the hit science-fiction movie Alien.Don't Look Down (co-written with Jennifer Crusie) was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Found way to many typos and factual errors. Just as one example, F-16s flying off a Navy carrier? Really? Overall, a nice easy read, and the price was right.
Read the sample ... Bought the book ... Couldn't put it down. Now I can see where true experts in their fields could shread the details for this book, but who cares. The author took 10,000 years of history, mixed in 50 years of current events, and took us on an incredible ride. A ride that almost led to man's extinction.
Looking at other titles by this author it looks that he writes more toward the young reader. After reading this book, I might just be moved to check some of those out, too.
The author's character development is not as complete as some might ask for, but he has captured the tone and outlook of many individuals coming from their specialized points of view. And I don't know where I have ever seen the tendancies of government bureaucracy better described. "We have always done it this way, so we can't change now!"
I did not get much sleep while readying this book. I just couldn't put it down - even tempted to learn how to read-and-drive (just kidding). I think myself a slow reader and read this 800 page thriller in less than 2-days.
The text was riddled with spelling and grammatical errors. At one point a page was partially missing leaving the reader totally lost. I was surprised that B&N would let something like this get into public hands. This is the second electronic book I've run across from B&N with these problems. I do know I will trash the Nook and head to the Kindle if I find many more "books" like this one.
Now, if you can get by these errors, the story itself was great.
This book is so bad that I'm showing it to my 9th grade Lit class as an example of how not to write a book...,only problem will be that they will see that they won't have to put forth their best efforts if books this bad can be published...,
Having never read Bob Mayer before, I decided to take the plunge with this book. It didn't keep my interest and I actually skipped to the last several chapters to read the ending after getting through the first ones. I personally prefer book without **** language, and this was part of the reason I did not like it.
This was a great read -- couldn't put it down. My wife read it next and could not put it down either; in fact I had to get her the next book in the series as she didn't have enough yet. Even when we felt we knew where the plot was going we were glued to the pages.
