Wade Hanna 3 - Rogue Asset product reviews

The third piece in the Wade Hanna literary puzzle from D'Antoni, this title seems to slip backwards a little from the benchmark set by Book 2 - Lethal Authority. It's still far more polished than the first book - Silent Sanction - and I even found myself going through the book with a red pencil marking bits that just didn't seem to fit right, including a strange and isolated continuity error which I felt I had to report to the author directly. Still, if you overlook the few small glitches that always seem to be the bane of self-published titles, this was a decent read.

Wade is now a fully-fledged member of the Intelligence community, and after a chance meeting with a shadowy, but very influential, member of the freelancer branch, Wade is whisked away to exotic locations for briefing and to act as a surveillance operative, selected mainly because of his lack of track record. Nothing as good as a fresh face when it comes to keeping an Op on the QT.

It was good to see, in this title, how the life of a spy isn't all fast-paced and racy. We were given some insight to the periods of tedium when an operative is in-place but waiting for 'the other team' to make their next move... the lead-up time when they are setting in their cover story and persona, doing basic recon, etc. before the mission kicks into full motion. While I doubt all operatives has such wonderfully pleasant cover stories as young Wade was given, I can imagine even the nicest facade still has it's negatives.

Overall, though this series is still holding my attention, I am really hoping that Book 4 gets a bit more editorial, proof-reader and plot-developer treatment. Maybe I have become jaded, or just spoiled, by the mountain of top-quality books that have passed under my eyes since I started doing book reviews, but I am really wanting this series to get revamped so it can achieve all the potential I think it has hidden in it.