I looked forward to reading this book. Normally I can read Larry Bond's books in two or three days, they're so engrossing. This one took me almost a month. I had to force myself to continue reading most of it. Totally unbelieveable cardboard characters - and that's the two heroes. If Bond's next book has these two characters (Thorn and Gray) in it, I'm not going to bother to read it. Like I'm going to believe those two can off scores of highly trained killers with every time of gun and hand to hand combat on three continents and save the USA from nuclear annihilation. Not a single reason to like these two cartoon characters. C'mon Larry, I know you can do better because I read your other books.