![]() ![]() ![]() The popularity of The Terminal List should speak to the success with which Carr has handled his audience expectations. As with just about anything, there’s always a balance to be found. In Terminal List, Lieutenant Commander James Reece is compiling the most dangerous. ![]() Reece returns home to his family with conflicting memories. ![]() That’s not necessarily a bad thing slowing things down in this manner can actually help readers understand the depth of thought that goes into strategic planning – even when such planning is forced to happen in mere moments. The Terminal List follows James Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. This kind of information is welcomed by readers of the genre (after all, they want to feel convinced that the author actually knows what their stuff), but the additional information does often serve to slow the pace down somewhat. A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the American government is behind the deaths of his team in this. The story does seem to take a strong hit for pacing at the beginning, with an opening prologue that takes its time setting up its location and the action due to take place there.Īnother factor that tends to adjust the general pace of The Terminal List is its dedication to military authenticity, with references to military codenames, procedures, and technical information such as the exact model numbers of scopes and ballistic capabilities of weapons. ![]()
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