I wonder why I thought I didn't like Greg Iles? I remember loving one of his earlier ones, then for some reason...but I read a good review of this one so requested it, and started it in the middle of the night when I woke and couldn't get back to sleep. 
 It had some really well-written passages, and the characters (at leas the primary ones) seemed real...the dogfighting was horrific, but overall I really liked being able to lose myself in the story for a nice long stretch today... 
 plan to look into some of this others...