Hunt the Wolf

Hunt the Wolf is the first of the SEAL Team Six series, it's written by Don Mann a retired NAVY SEAL himself and writing with Ralph Pezzullo. Hunt the Wolf is full of first hand knowledge that leads to a colorful and vivid description of scenery and action. It was exciting and suspenseful I couldn't put it down. It reminded me of John McClane and Bryan Mills (Die Hard and Taken) mashed together. The main character just kept getting beat down but never gave up, and if that's what NAVY SEALs do they so don't get paid enough. It's more of a Tom Clancy type action (talk action, talk action) then continuous nonstop action.

The story quite literally starts with a bang. Thomas Crocker and his SEAL Team Six is leading a quiet mission to flush out a terrorist, Zaman, well they blow up part of the building he was in. The Zaman manages to escape but left some clues behind about his plan, but not enough to accurately piece together what. What was supposed to be a specialty training Crocker was taking his men climbing up the K2, and waylaid by the CIA to run that quick mission but the CIA had it declared a screw-up, so on with the trip as planned.

At the base camp for K2 Crocker is approached by a Norwegian national asking for help. In the last year more young adults have gone missing, sold into the white slave trade. The last girl to go missing, Malie, had connections to the King. The Norwegian government can't do anything about by themselves so as a person favor to the King of Norway they are asking Crocker's team to help. With permission pending Crocker goes up the mountain with his men as planned and then back down again, with weather turning worse and an avalanche that almost took the life of one of his men They return to base camp with permission granted. But the CIA has put that on the back burner and told them to go after someone else.

Crocker and Akil must go to France to flush out Rafiq a known connection to Zaman. After some cunning acting and getting beat up they finally find themselves at Rafiq's hideout. After a fire fight they discover the connection between Zaman, Rafiq, and the white slave trade circle. They are able to save some young woman and find out more about where Zaman is. Together with his team Crocker pieces together what's going on and faces a court martial to find Malie and track down Zaman once and for all.

The ending is just as explosive as the beginning and a happy ending to boot. This amazing introduction to Tom Crocker and his team is well worth the read. I can picture this a movie. First published in 2012 it has three books to follow so far the newest coming out this month.

goes live 5/3/14 goodreads.com review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/920134316

I would like to thank Mulholland Books and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book.

I love thrillers, so I signed on to reading all 4 books of this series that are available right now, even though this is a series about Navy Seals and really not the type of book that I would normally read, because it is heavily military. I didn't get any of the military references, and I've never even heard of some of the places mentioned in this book, but none of that took away from my enjoyment of the book.

I found it very thrilling, and enjoyed the book very much. I will admit up front that I knew nothing about Seal Team Six before going into this book...except that they killed Osama Bin Laden. Before that, in fact, I don't think I'd even known that such a group existed. But what I learned from this book is that they are some people you wouldn't want to meet up with if you're the bad guy, because you're not coming out of it alive. They are warriors through and through and they're going to get you if they can. And if they can't, they will keep coming at you until they can get you.

Tom Crocker and his team are some of the toughest people I've heard of, and even though they are fictional, they are written about by a former Seal Team Six member, so I can only imagine that real Seal Team Six guys are much the same and do much the same kinds of things. They kind of remind me of real life super heroes, except maybe without the ability to fly with capes or see through walls with just their eyes and that kind of thing. But much like Spiderman or Batman or Superman, they fight the bad guys and they are super tough and cool. Except the real Seal Team Six guys are for real and really protect our country from the real bad guys out there.

This book really instilled a sense of respect for our real Seal Team guys in me. I went from knowing nothing about them, to knowing enough to deeply respect the danger they put themselves in for our country every day, and the time that they take away from their families for the majority of the year. They put their lives and their personal lives on the line to make our country safer, and that is really important.

This book has action and excitement and really cool heroes in it, and really bad guys. It has everything you could ask for, and it's all based on reality. How great is that?

I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I am never compensated for my reviews and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

The Seal Team series is a source of consistently good military thrillers, which are fast, but enjoyable reading. They are not as verbose as a Tom Clancy type thriller, but they are the same type of story.

This is the debut novel of the series, and as one reviewer dubbed it, a fine example of the blood and bayonet genre. I can't think of a better description myself, and am entirely jealous.

I read this book in one sitting. I could not put it down. The suspense, action and interplay of the characters kept me on the edge of my chair. Seal Team 6 is a group of the finest individuals I have encountered in the written word. They are real human beings, fully fleshed out in depth. The action and adventure, whether climbing a mountain or chasing a terrorist stays withy me long after I finish the book. I can't emphasize enough the top quality writing that makes this book so compelling. I finished it drained, but thirsty for more. Hunt the Wolf is one of the greatest.

I haven't read many books that follow SEAL Team Six, mostly they have only made an appearance in some of the books that I've read. So this is somewhat of a new reading experience for me. When this book and the others of this series were made available for me on NetGalley I picked them up hoping to try something different.

What I really enjoyed about this book was that you could tell that Don Mann really knows his stuff. Everything was described with such precision and with some of the events that happened in this book you would either have to have real-life knowledge or an amazing imagination in order to have written them.

Crocker was such a dynamic character to follow. On the one hand he is a strong leader of his group, but on the other hand he is a man who has learned from his previous mistakes and wants to be able to spend time with his family. I loved his strength but also that little bit of vulnerability he would show from time to time.

I loved the action in this book. While it is prevalent throughout the book it does build towards the end until you're left on the edge of your seat gasping at the final showdown. I really look forward to reading more of this series.