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Title: The Team

Author: James F. Bennett

Narrator: Roger Wood

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-16

Publisher: James Bennett

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense

Publisher's Summary:

An Army Special Forces team under the command of Captain Brent Chase fights for its life in the mountains and villages of Afghanistan. Years later, in a house at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky one of its elite soldiers lies dead of an apparent suicide. Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Colby, from the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, meets with anger and resistance as he probes into the history of the soldier and the Special Forces Team he served with. Without official sanction, at risk to himself and his career, he continues his investigation all the way to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

When the line between courage and recklessness, honor and disgrace, or victory and defeat can be maddeningly thin, brave men struggle to survive and to come to terms with what they have had to do. One man, though, will stop at nothing to find the truth behind the Team.

Members Reviews:

In combat itâs all about The Team.

In combat itâs all about The Team.

James Bennettâs The Team had a lot of potential but in the end failed to deliver. An interesting military crime thriller, the story was told in a dual track storyline alternating between the present and the past, sometimes between paragraphs. Unfortunately for this reader the story just never caught fire as the protagonist, Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Colby seemed, at times, to just be going through the motions of investigating. The story started slowly, dragged along, accelerated rapidly to eventually die with a literary whimper.

No gratuitous sex, language, or violence. Just a slog of a read.

Character development was this storyâs saving grace. The author did a good job of developing his characters to a point but never succeeded in giving them life. Just when the reader is about to find out just who CWO Thomas Colby really is, the tale just ended leaving this reader asking What Happens Next?

Sadly, I expected a lot more from The Team but Mr. Bennett just never delivered. 3 stars and that is being generous.

Three Stars

It's okay

A "One sitting" read, make time.

A highly decorated member of a Special Forces Team, SSGT Russell Johnson is found by his wife, dead of suicide. Tragic, unfortunate and too common. But Agent Thomas Colby, CWO3, Army Criminal Investigations Division, seeks the reason. Usually a reason, is simply found and is clear cut, but not in this case. Colbyâs superiors and the Special Forces Command block his inquiry at every turn. Even to a tour in Afghanistan. The author takes us on a fast paced retrospective of the SSgtâs life on The Teamâs many tours in Afghanistan, alternately taking us to the Teamâs battles past and to Colbyâs current investigation. The Battle scenes, particularly the critical ambush at Gardez, are as clear and forceful as one can imagine. The development of Colbyâs confused relationship with the widow and his own family problems is well done and smacks of reality.

Colbyâs voyage From the Suicide Scene to his discovery of The Reason, make entertaining reading.

Beautifully developed characters; well designed plot and a wonderful grasp of description both of scenes and characters.

I can only hope there is a sequel: Iâd love to meet CWO Colby again.