Vendetta

 Shirley J.                     Adult Fiction                         Terrorism in Guyana, Putting Soldiers in Danger    

Vendetta by Iris Johansen only read 200 pages

After 200 pages, I hated the heroine of this story so much for her self-centeredness, I decided not to continue reading.    Rachel Venable's father was head of the CIA task force on terrorism and he ordered his most trusted ally, Jude Brandon,  to go in at whatever cost and rescue his daughter who was being held in prison by a super terrorist in Guyana.   A special team of twelve elite soldiers are sent in and they rescue her at great danger to themselves.   Now this haughty hag goes all super jerk and like her belligerent father she orders them to go in to even far more dangerous terrain to get a woman and her daughter out because even given the situation with all the odds against them surrounded by killers like roaches who are everywhere, this loathsome c word (I only attribute that to those who earn it) orders these soldiers not only after they have accomplished the mission of getting her despicable personage out, but, she has the brass to demand they go back in country even further to get a woman who is hiding out in a cave with her daughter which neither she nor the soldiers know WHERE in this scenario then she tells them not only rescue these other two but also go back again out of their way to drop them at what may or may not still be a location with a hospital but no that isn't all, after all that if any one is left alive she practically spits in their faces saying that after finally dropping these next two off they are to do a 360 and return to the vary gates of hell of the hold of the terrorist Max Huber who had held her in captivity for four months, to go get another guy out of there, all her agenda,  jeopardizing the lives of 12 men and their platoon leader in such a flagrant disregard for their lives and the families that are lovingly waiting at home for them praying desperately they return from the hazardous mission of retrieving her!   I was seething and slammed this story shut.   O.K. it is a fictional character but the total disregard for human life and the belittling of the great and grievous task they had just accomplished in saving her only to let them know how little their lives meant to her by forcing three more search and rescue missions they had not signed up for.    I was hoping a fictional sniper would shoot her in her fictional head to solve the problem she was for this band of brothers.   Nope, I had enough of Rachel.   No recommendation here, either.