Larry Bond's First Team: Fires of War

I try to read novels dealing with nuclear weapons, the genera I write in. The plot is built around extracting Pu-239 from spent nuclear reactor fuel rods. Uranium-235 or U-238 is used to make fuel pellets for a nuclear reactor. After a period of time, the fuel pellets are removed from the reactor and placed in a cooling pond, as the authors describe in the book. A small portion of uranium in the fuel pellets capture a neutron and become plutonium. Once cooled the pellets can be dissolved and the plutonium extracted--a very complex and dangerous process. The story is technically feasible, the authors do not tread into the highly technical area of nuclear weapons physics, and yet they manage to tell an interesting tale. My only complaint is the use of "bullets" instead of cartridges. A pistol, rifle, submachine gun, etc., is loaded with cartridges (brass case, primer, propellant, and a bullet). When the powder ignites, the bullet is propelled down the barrel. Both bond and DeFelice should know this. FIRES OF WAR is a good read for fans of action heroes. Bob Ferguson is less of a superman than some others, which makes the book an enjoyable read.

This book starts off kind of slow, but it builds momentum rapidly. The ending is quite suprising.

Ive read the other First Team books, This one was worth the wait. I wasnt disappointed.

I read this pretty quick and felt it was better than other First Team books, for the most part a "page turner". It seems more like Bond actually wrote a good bit of the book. In the others it didn't really seem like his writing. I could keep up with plot better than in other First Team books. It left me waiting to see what happens in the next one in series.