Black Site

Black Site by Dalton Fury

Kolt Raynor had been involved in a Delta Force mission while on active duty and had been responsible for the loss of many lives because of his tendency to ignore direct orders when they didn't suit his plan. Three years have passed since that incident which resulted in his court martial from the service and it seems that his only friend during that time has been the name of the maker of the bottle of booze he's working on at the time. Now he is being offered a chance to go back into the field and perform a job that might partially make up for his previous mistake. The problem is, he is in such degraded physical condition and there is such a short time to get him up to speed. Even the good guys don't think his rehabilitation is worthwhile or possible. Is this a one way mission?

Raynor has no buddies left in the military, but that doesn't matter because this operation will be carried out without officially being sanctioned by the government. In the novel this character was given a lot of hurdles to jump over. He had to go cold turkey off the booze and manage to survive the training in which people were trying to take every advantage to show him just how out of shape and vulnerable he was. I liked that the author built this character back up into a trained fighter, but always with that possibility of him making another mistake to compromise the entire operation. A lot of the first parts of the book were spent on Raynor's reentry into the world of the elite commando so it took some time for him to be in the field of exercise.

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