A few days ago, I finished up Victory, by Stephen Coonts. I had picked this up from a remainder pile about a week ago, having read one of his other books at some time in my past. There's a reason why it was in the pile.

To be honest, I'm not sure as to why I continue to grab books from the remainder list. The only reason why books end up there is that the publisher thought it would be more successful than it was (either no one bought it to start with or not as many bought it as originally expected). It must be that siren song of cheap books that just might be good that keeps me hopeful.

This particular book is part, well part x of something or other; I really don't know. It's not all that important. There are enough details of importance from any prior novels that matter sufficiently to this story that I didn't feel I couldn't pick up as I went along (or, if there are, I'm not aware of them). The main thrust of the story is fairly generic techno/military thriller. There's a military situation going on (in this case, four nuclear weapons being smuggled into the US by Islamic terrorists), only a small group of US military can solve the problem (Navy pilots and CIA operatives), and only the US has some super secret technology that will win the day (computer processing of public cameras). Will the four warheads be found in time? Will the various sub-plots of a personal nature to the characters be resolved? I'd say tune in next week, same bat time, same bat channel, but I'm no where near motivated enough to care.