I should probably preface this review by confessing that I know Stan. Well, know him about as well as you can know someone you've never actually met but chat with for hours every month on Facebook. And you know what? He kicks ass. No, seriously, the guy's a martial artist, so he actually does kick ass.
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He's also a kickass writer in the "guns 'n' guts" genre, having created with his debut novel, Sold Out, a kickass (are you sensing a pattern here?) hero in the form of warrior-sniper Nick Woods. Well, Stan recently released Mexican Heat, the second novel in the series of Nick Woods thrillers, and if you're wondering if it also kicks ass, well, read on.
This second Nick Woods adventure finds him
reluctantly hired by the CIA to take a team of hot-shot trigger-pullers into
Mexico to tackle the powerful Godesto cartel after it slaughters a SEAL team and
targets the president. Now, boiling the plot down to its bare skeleton makes it sound a bit thin, but trust me, it's not. The story is actually quite ambitious for an action novel, full of the kind of political intrigue that made Vince Flynn a household name.
To say things get hot would be an understatement on par
with saying a .45 packs more punch than a BB gun. And the heat isn't
limited to explosions and firefights--though there are plenty of those--it also comes from Isabella, a curvaceous team member with sensual Latina sizzle to
spare, the kind of woman that can turn even Nick Woods' head. Mitchell wisely avoids turning this into a romance novel, but let's just say not all the action comes from the end of a gun.Listen, if the thought of a novel that reads like Tom Clancy on steroids gets you excited, prepare to pop wood like you chugged a bottle of Viagra. Mexican Heat spins an intricate, political story much like Clancy, but cranks up the gunplay, hand-to-hand combat, and overall action quotient while chopping out all the boring stuff. (Don't look at me like that; you know damn well Clancy has plenty of boring parts.) Much like Nick Woods himself, this book is lean and mean and packed with hard muscle. Mitchell knows how to write a book that moves at high velocity with prose that is stripped to the bone.
Bottom line, if you enjoy stories where the good guys kick the crap out of the bad guys, then this novel needs to be in your hands most ricky-tick.
