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In Kuwait, American forces are locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a sailboat manned by a drug runner and a pirate is witness to the unspeakable. In one instant, all around the world, everything will change. A wave of inexplicable energy slams into the continental United States. America as we know it vanishes. From a Texas lawyer who happens to be in the right place at the right time to an engineer in Seattle who becomes his city’s only hope, from a combat journalist trapped in the Middle East to a drug runner off the Mexican coast, Lacking Warning tells a quick, furious tale of survival, violence, and a new, soul-shattering reality.
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Lacking doubt, the worst book I have ever read. A disjointed and implausible “tale” (if it could be called such) of “the wave” which for no agreed reason appears and then disappears on the last page. No explanation. No relation to the having no effect “plot” (again I’m being kind) of dull characters. This was a total waste of time and money. Don’t buy it for goodness sakes. You won’t even be able to give it away as I’ve tried. And the proclaimed sequel? Gimme a break!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
If you judge the political left to be GOOD and the right EVIL, this book may be for you. (HINT……soccer moms are GOOD.)
If you are the type who would acclaim if Israel nuked every Muslim city, killed millions upon millions of Arabs and Persians and lacking reason then certainly this books is for you. (And of course there is no revenge against Israel from any country though the leader states Israel could not re-nuke all the countries and cities previously nuked lacking revenge !! LOL)
Mr. Birmingham, remembering the vast book buying American public, cannot reasonably bring himself to state the World would be better lacking the USA but that is the (not so devious) thought behind this book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I have read the leader’s additional series and it was fantastic. I do plot to buy this book but $14.30 for an e-book is just too much when much more well known authors have best sellers selling for $9.99.
I will buy it when it comes down to $9.99 and not a second before.
Update: It came down in fee (for a fleeting time, now it is back up for some odd reason). I bought it when it was cheaper, read it and it was fantastic! I look forwards to the sequel (once it is sold at $9.99 or less).
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
While over all a fun read, I was to some extent distressed to see one line in particular-
“Africa was left alone, no one wanted to get near that clannish madness.”
Or words to that effect.
The collapse of the American supply of weapons and food might really make Africa a safer, cooler place-and what about the thousands of Americans who are busily trying to save lives and the environment on a continent twice the size of America? I guess the vital parts of the world are the ones the white people live in/come from.
This is a perfect example of unconscious racism-Birmingham meant no harm, and perhaps he wanted to avoid some level of insult, but to write off an entire continent, with its dozens of countries and hundreds of languages in one off-hand comment that speaks to the most bone idle, most superficial knowledge is just sad.
I hope he takes the time to fix this in the next volumes of this series.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Lacking Warning held me from beginning to end, even though the sci-fi premise was beyond ridiculous.
Sorry to say, the book’s end was even more ridiculous than the premise.
Birmingham spends most of the book proving to me beyond a doubt that U.S. military men and women (Col Susan Peleggi is a fine example) are far and away the best citizens, leaders and choice makers America has. They preserve and protect what is left after the unthinkable happens, even as the wolves circle. Amidst the unthinkable, they are concerned about the Constitution they took an oath to preserve. And they don’t run…choosing rather to fight and die than give up.
But in the end, Birmingham bows to his liberal audience of Playboy and Rolling Stone readers (I should have read the back flyleaf first to see who he writes for) and, taking a page out of Dr. Strangelove, has trashed the military as overbearing power hungry jerks. He phones in the concluding chapter in a most unsatisfying manner as if he’s met his page number goal and needed to end the book.
Worse, he leaves America at the mercy of incompetent unsympathetic people I wouldn’t trust deciding, as Birmingham himself observes, which politicians are “entitled to a packet of effing Oreos at their meetings…” (p. 270).
Though Lacking Warning is very exciting and a fantastic read whenever the scene is outside the continental U.S., it suffers seriously each time the scene shifts to Seattle. They are clueless, poor excuses for Americans, and have learned nothing. It’s a sad commentary. The only thing missing was the smell of marijuana, although that clarifies why the most pressing issue facing the Seattle City Councillors was arguing about who’s bogarting the Oreos.
The only thing worse would have been for the California legislature to be in charge.
In Birmingham’s world, Seattle’s muddled tree-hugging politics is to be preferred over proven leadership. Military generals, you see, are incapable of apt civilian leaders and should be feared and avoided. You know, like persons failed presidents George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Untrustworthy militarists all.
Liberals “sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf” (Orwell). But if they even admit persons rough men exist, they refuse to honor them with positions of civilian leadership, all the while entertaining the irrational belief that peace, prosperity and safety simply spring from the ground like some weed by the power excellent intentions. “Protect us! Save us! Now go away you scum.”
It’s as if Birmingham, to please his readers, wants the guy running America to be an unproven incompetent clueless amateur who’s main resume points are “Community Organizer” and a few days as a Senator who voted “present” most of the time. Oh, wait….
The buzz is that Birmingham is in Clancy’s class. No way. Not if Birmingham’s thought of America is Seattle.
As much as I loved Lacking Warning, I won’t buy the sequel.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5