Patriot and Assassin

It is even better than his first book- COOCH. It is exciting, fun and thought provoking about Notional Security, threats to the USA, ideas about Muslims and Islam. Cooch, the main charcter, lives an exciting life of spying, fighting, killing bad guys but still has time for sex with beautiful and super intelligent girls along the way. Bob believe there is an answer to our current terrorist threats, which I have neer heard before. Bob may have the only long term answer, but you will have to read the book to find out. I really enjoyed the book and I look forward to the next book about Cooch. Tom

A Patriot and Assassin, the second book in Bob Cook's Cooch series was a very good read. I found the information and viewpoints on the Middle East fascinating. Cook's knowledge of and description of technology and how it is used was like a lecture but fun, not work. And I am most interested in his ideas on how education can be administered, very creative approaches, and the impact of education on the political situation. All useful messages. His treatment of women is also worthy of note. He has created strong, intelligent, self reliant woman in several cultures. I would like to see them play more of a part in future books. I am looking forward to the next release from Cook. His characters and plots are getting more and more interesting and I am most appreciative of the research and thought he has put into them.

OK the first book in this series was a typical superman and his girl type story. But the author pushes too far in this book. I would have given up about half way thru but wanted to see how it finished up. The first book, Cooch, was nonstop action. This one drags thru more than 50% of the book before any real action occurs. The author has a theory of eduction he wants to push and he does in interminable and boring detail. I'd say it takes up 50-60% of the text in the book. Nothing really happens until around the 70% point in the book. To briefly summarize without giving up much of the weak plot: -The bad guys as usual have a super deadly weapon they want to unleash on America. -The bad guys are of course led by a perverted mastermind. A weak shadow of Moriarty. -The hero is of course a genius. he has multiple Ph.Ds in diverse subjects. Has made multi-millions in the stock market. Joined the Marine at the age of 16 and apparently the CIA at the same time. Became death incarnate to the enemies of this country. Has a Medal of Honor father and a Bedouin super-businessman sheik as a grandfather. He has hands that could squeeze water from a stone and of course is erudite, urbane and handsome. -The heroine is smarter than Einstein, beautiful, tall and rich. With a black belt too, of course. She is a programming wonder who all by herself writes AI software that no one else can begin to understand. Including the clods at NSA. -She shows up the NSA people who seem to be a bunch of ill educated fools. When the actual truth is the agency is populated with very high level mathematicians and programmers. -The author makes to common error of describing things that he knows nothing about and hasn't bothered to research. The Special Warfare community in particular. He apparently heard the outdated term: Delta Force somewhere and so everything needing SpecWar activity is done by them. -He also doesn't really seem to have a grasp of firearms since his descriptions are unconvincing. So all in all he violates that law of writing: write about something that you know about. All in all a slow book, ill plotted with with unbelievable characters.

Really enjoyed Patriot & Assassin. Read Cooch, the first in the series and rate this book even higher. I love how easy it is to escape into the characters and action, while appreciating the nuggets of culture, geo-politics and technology that are scattered throughout the story. My best comparison of Mr Cook's work is Clive Cussler's various series, which I find equally engaging. Looking forward to read how Cooch and his friends save the planet in the third installment!

Unlike the first book the character of Cooch is raised to near super human status which makes the read sometimes difficult to accept. Overall the book was fast paced and kept your attention. Hopefully the future installments of the series have Cooch as more of a great operator and not a comic book character

A thrilling and thought provoking journey into the world of international intrigue,security,high technology and education. Cooch is a combination Reacher/Sherlock Holmes who provides an exciting read for anyone looking for an intelligent and compelling thriller. Well written with humor and passion.

Just the kind of fast, hard hitting action that has kept us on the edge of our chairs and up half the night with Lee Child and Vince Flynn books. Robert Cook has created a great new antagonist for the "evil ones" out there. Alex "Cooch" Cuchulain will be around for a long while ( I hope) taking care of things others can't touch.

I got the first book in this series for free recently and read it. I gave it 3 stars, mostly for the implausible nature of what the story portrayed. At the end of the book, my Kindle app conveniently noted that I already owned book 2 in the series and prompted me to go to it. Turns out it was free a year or so ago. I had downloaded it but never read it, so having nothing better to do today, I read it. It is another book with little plausibility. That is really important to me in a story. So despite a few good parts, it just does not cross the line into being a good or great book for me. But, it was still an OK read. Just nothing special. It continues the line that Cooch and his girlfriend are smarter and stronger than anyone else. The things they are depicted as doing don't make any real sense for someone that is especially bright. In this installment, Cooch has taken over the Bedouin enterprise left for him by his grandfather. His GF has created some kind of software that not only predicts terrorist actions, but can train Muslims in modern education for 5 cents a day. I kid you not, that was the claim. At one point it got so absurd that the widow of a dead employee insists Cooch have sex with him so she can have his baby, while claiming it as her dead husband's.

Very good and imaginative read.

RAS

Characters that are now becoming known from the first book do not disappoint in their escapades the Author puts them in.Action Action Action.Thought the book would have been longer than it was.Entertaining,Enjoyable.

good read nice pace without constant background repetition.

Cooch is the man