Dark Sky
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4.1 • 169 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Max Bowman is a hero for today's America — mostly because he has absolutely no idea what he's doing.
Years after being tossed on the trash heap by the CIA, Max is just getting by — and fine with it. Who cares if his future is in the rearview mirror? As long as he's got a Jack Daniels in his hand and his creatively-foul-mouthed singer girlfriend on his arm, why shake things up?
Then his old Agency boss shows up with a job that's way above his paygrade — tracking down the truth about a war hero who was killed in Afghanistan. Because some people think this dead man isn't so dead. Max treats it as a paycheck and a big fat waste of time. Until that house explodes. And a guy who looks a lot like the hero of a popular '60s TV Western puts a target on his forehead. Oh, and then there's that secret para-military outfit in Montana, which wants to end his assignment in the most unpleasant way possible.
It all happens in DARK SKY, a sardonic spin on the traditional thriller and the beginning of Max Bowman's hilarious and harrowing misadventures.
Customer Reviews
Well okay then!
I generally don’t go for these kinds of books but I’m glad I did! I struggled in a few places to stay engaged but the characters were too good to stop without a conclusion even if not so much that I want more of this world.
A barely likable character in a generic plot
I wanted to like Max Bowman at first. However his humor by negativity wore thin quickly. The story seemed shoehorned into the author’s personal world view which led to several moments of “no rational person would do that” thinking. Add to that with jokes that barely bring a grin that get told ad nauseam and you get a book of marginal value for your time.
The final nail in the coffin, for me came with the storm at the end of the book. Very cliché, and the twist at the end could be seen a mile away. Worse yet, the author and the editor failed miserably when they allowed a hurricane to be named Mel “weeks before hurricane season”. For an author and fictional character to not know the naming system for storms blew my mind.
I’ll be leaving this novel on the heap.
Wish I could give 0 stars is stupid!
Writing this review just to say that “Wish I could give 0 stars” has a very very poor view on this book! Please read. Worth every minute it takes to read! 😁