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SEAL Team Six by Chuck Dixon

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


This was a cumbersome book. The majority of it made up of biographies of all of the characters and some not even otherwise in the book. That would be fine if the book was 600 pages. But at 145, the endless background is just poor plotting and editing.

What’s left is substandard, predictable action and very bad dialogue. Both usually have to do with undefined characters. That’s what makes all of the character background superfluous – All of the characters speak with nearly the same voice. There is one that repeats the last few words of a sentence. That this stands out to separate one from the others, should give an idea of the sameness of speak.

The ending is nothing new and under performs some of the biographies included.

Dixon is a very successful machine in comic book story production and I hoped to find he accomplished what most all in the comic book writing field hasn’t been able to do: Be successful in writing a novel. This is not an example of that.
I figure Dixon was hoping to follow in the foot steps of Brad Thor and Vince Flynn or Alex Berenson. This book is mighty far from any of those. Based upon this book, Dixon might want to reach toward the direction John Gilstrap takes.
I won’t give up just yet. I’ll try another Dixon soon.

Bottom line: I don’t recommend this book. 2 out of two points.



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