Interesting Take on Yemen - but too many of the same repititions Jokes

Following the experinces with the "Lion" and the project Hellfire John and Kate Corey are "volunteered" to go to Yemen, to find and arrest one of the masterminds behind the attack on the USS Cole on October 12, 2000 who calls himself The Panther , John has already been to Yemen Because of this as part of a ERT (Evidence Response Team) in August 2001 and hasnt really liked the experience. The book starts in February 2004 as a much of Middle-East history has gone into the country since the events Mentioned in here.

The description of the Yemen experience in Aden and Sana'a fits to similar reports about the current situation as related by the National Geographic Society Magazine and someother magazines last year, so with all the joking around chauvinistic of the egomanic John Corey and his compatriots in What They sometimes call "Sandland", the depiction Seems to be somewhat accurate if not a bit colored. You can learn a bit about Actually the Political and Social Situation thereabout eight years before the start of the Arabic Spring.

I'm a fan John Corey starting with "Plum Iceland" and I have had a lot of fun with the series and other titles by this author - Especially "Upcountry". But this John Corey is so flat and the endless repitition of the same topics or wordings in the "jokes" (thosethat are not chauvinistic sexist are) really sticks in the craw. And the harping on "Revenge" and "patriotism" with x-time repitions Mainly helps to make the bookk unnecessarily long - and sometimes quite boring - reading. The action sequences are quite nice again - as usual, but the way there is long and hard.