At the risk of annoying more fans of existing authors, here's another book I really disliked. I kept meaning to read one or two of these, always available at good airports, novels.
It (to me) fetishises masculinity and violence, with a product placement strategy in place for guns, gear and things that appeal to the readers of these kinds of things. It's also obsessed with details, like Tom Clancy was. Probably why fans hated that Tom Cruise played him in the movies because he wasn't tall enough. Of all the characteristics that are at play in this, height is hardly anything that matters by comparison.
It's also a little misogynistic, or maybe the exact opposite of that - Propoandist maybe? Hyperandrocentric?
Either way it became quite weary with constant escalation and the blatant 'bad guys are evil and hurt people to death, good guys are protectors who defend people, to death' mantra.
I'll give the rest of the series a miss.
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