Joseph D'Antoni

The author covers a lot in "Captive Threat" beginning with the relocation of a CIA agent into the witness protection agency and then moving on to the rescue in Thailand. Joseph D'antoni address PTSD and readers watch as Megan learns to cope with those stressors that continue to plague her. Is she paranoid or are hit men after her? Finally, she contacts her old partner and lover, Wade Hanna, and moves in with him in Louisiana without the FBI or CIA knowing this. Wade does help her through these issues and continues to train with Megan to prepare her for the next mission.

Wade and his teams infiltrate through Cambodia into Thailand with a new mission to rescue an American family, who had been giving away government secrets to the Russians and Chinese. They are being held in an old monastery and held captive by Cambodian soldiers.

What I found difficult from this point on was the planning portion of the mission. It seemed like it went on forever and was redundant later in the story and written unlike the first half of the book. I thought it dragged on and almost stopped reading at that time. I also found the radio procedures and conversations way out in left field. Recipients do not respond with "I hear you loud and clear" every time they are called and then ending the conversation with an "over" instead of "out". The last thing I noticed was the amount of typos and errors within the story. Sentences are missing words or having extra words that should have been deleted during the editing process. I would expect that with the amount of books this author has published, issues of this kind would not be present. Yet, here they are!

All-in-all, I still gave 4 stars to "Captive Threat" because of the creativity and plausibility of the story. Corrections mentioned above are worth an extra star if they can be corrected.

John Podlaski, author
"Cherries - A Vietnam War Novel" and "When Can I Stop Running?"… (plus d'informations)