The Outside Man

Und das kommt eher selten, genau genommen nie vor. Was für eine Geschichte! Was für ein Schreibstil, was für ein Tempo, was für atemberaubende pure non-stop action der Extraklasse!Whoa!Dazu wie in „Without Sanction“ in der ersten Person personal geschrieben. Keine Umwege, keine langen Einleitungen, der Sprung ins kalte Matt Drake Wasser beginnt mit der aller ersten Zeile. Was sage ich, mit dem ersten Wort auf der ersten Seite und endet mit dem letzten Wort auf der letzten Seite.Die Geschichte enthält alles, was eine geniale Geschichte benötigt, um genial zu sein. Humor, Drama, Zweifel, High Tec vom Feinsten, combiniert mit dem tiefen fundierten Wissen und der jahrelangen Erfahrung des Autors mit der Materie, gewürzt mit Ironie und Sarkasmus, dabei locker-leicht-fluffy geschrieben, ist „Outside Man“ von Don Bentley absolut outstanding. Zusammen mit Mark Greaney’s Gray Man „Relentless“ ist es definitive und ohne jeden Zweifel das beste Buch des Jahres für mich.Zehn Punkte, nicht fünf, zehn Punkte.

Tom Clancy没後のJack Ryan Jr.シリーズの著者の1人で、Mark GreaneyのGray manシリーズが好きな人におすすめとのレビューがあり、手にとりました。著者に軍隊、FBI, SWATのメンバー経験もあるとの事で、冒頭から十分に楽しませてくれます。主人公Matt Drake、これからもフォローしていきたいです。

Book Review - Matt Drake in Outside Man again finds himself in chaos as he is being hunted and is trying to avoid being killed and find his hunters and their leader. He’s a former Army Ranger ‘badass’ turn federal agent and knows how to handle himself and is well connected to people around the world who lend a hand when he needs them. I was excited for this book since finishing Don Bentley’s debut novel Without Sanction. I was a little worried that it wouldn’t live up to my expectations after Without Sanction’s success, but I was not in any way disappointed! From the opening sentence I was hooked and couldn’t put it down. Matt Drake and Frodo’s strong relationship again inspired me to read on. Their biracial friendship and Drake’s interracial marriage are key elements of the series that I personally can relate to. Again, Bentley’s first book was fantastic, and he certainly didn’t buckle under pressure to do it again. The action sequences in The Outside Man are professionally written, with expert weaponry knowledge and his characters and their development get you invested in a way only the good, experienced authors can in the espionage thriller genre. Hat tip to Bentley’s character development, especially the diversity aspect. You hate the bad guys as much as you like the good guys. And I have a special admiration for the Matt Drake character, and the humanity he displays while forging through a hectic and extremely dangerous lifestyle. The book opens with a bang and never lets up, page after page. But it’s the characters that make you continue through each chapter. You want Drake and his cohorts to succeed because the writing makes you care about the victims and despise the villains at the same time. Bentley writes with the amazing accuracy of an experienced warrior and probably one of the most realistic and relatable protagonists in the thriller genre. Without Sanction, was remarkable, but this one is even better! The Outside Man was a great follow-up to Without Sanction. I’m also excited to read Bentley’s addition to Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Jr. series. He’s that good...!

Matt Drake and his wife Laila enjoy their life in Austin, Texas. Laila holds a senior position in a major accounting firm and Matt is retired. Well, sort of retired. He left his international role with the DIA around a year prior. So why is he attacked in downtown Austin by what appears to be an organized group of Middle Eastern assassins?The only way to find out, is to head back to the Middle East and seek the man that would know why Matt is a target. Matt knows the Middle East well. He even has linguistic skills in the Arabic language. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, especially when he runs into an evil man simply known as The Devil!This reader only recently learned of author Don Bentley, when his recently released novel “Forgotten War” was mentioned by author Marcus Brotherton on his Facebook site. The novel was immediately ordered from Amazon and this reader was simply blown away with the writing. As one that worked in the Middle East, this reader felt he was back on the street in a far away land. Since finishing “Forgotten War” this reader has acquired the other novels in the Matt Drake series.“The Outside Man” was published in 2021 and is the second book in the series. Once again, the writing is simply sensational. There is one scene in the story that is incredibly frightening and this reader wondered what he would do if in a similar situation. Reality is probably the best word to describe the story. You do feel like you are there! Thank you Don Bentley!

Great book! On the edge the entire time. Very hard to put down