I read this early James Patterson novel pretty quickly and thought that it was pretty good if not one of his best.
The story concerns some Vietnam vetrans getting their revenge on an ungrateful USA by blowing up a lot of the financial district of New York. This is all tied up with the CIA and international criminals.
The good guy is called Archer Carroll who is of Irish descent and has four children and is a widower. He is, of course, a superhuman who survives everything that is thrown at him. We are interested in his romantic liaisons and his family as well as his struggle with the bad guys. There are echoes of the character Mike Bennett who Patterson wrote about later.
The book is a bit wordy in places and the Northern Ireland parts did not really ring true for me (one of the characters is referred to as North Irish for example).
From what I understand this is a lot better than some of Patterson's earlier novels and would be a good rainy afternoon novel to while away a few pleasant hours.
7/10 from me.
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