This novel is set in Kabul and features a murderous US Army soldier who will kill anyone in his path. His mission is to save some Afghan women who want an education and murder members of the Taliban along the way. This story is one of combat and there are numerous deaths along the way.
Tears from Kabul is written in the style of a shoot-them-up video game. It is all dramatic action with bullets and explosions going off left, right and centre. The story line is very weak, characterization is poor and the dialogue is snappy child's talk. The language used is very limited and will appeal to people with a reading age of 5.
I did not enjoy reading Tears from Kabul and thought it was nothing more than a violent children's story. Michael does not have the skills of a storyteller and his novel has the journalistic skills of a football match reporter for The Sun newspaper. This tabloid style of writing makes this a POOR read that I can only vote 2 stars.
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Michael decided to publish his novel in 3 volumes, which you can read seperately or you can buy the boxed set. I downloaded book 1 of Tears for Kabul which has 4 chapters. I think he took this format so that he could give away the first 4 chapters as a free download in the hope that readers will purchase the rest of his story. Judging by book 1, I will not be wasting my money on books 2 and 3. I suggest you give ALL 3 books in the series the MISS. There are loads of good books out there with interesting and thought provoking stories about Afghanistan but this is NOT one of them.
Tears from Kabul is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2013.
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