** NOTE, this review is for the whole "Special Forces" series** 
 Well, that's a week of my life I'm not getting back, and I don't know if I want it back or not. This series is dark, that's for sure, and it contains a lot more (and unsettling) erotica than I really wanted to read, and the best parts were really the actual military ops and psychological part (including the very fraught relationship between the protagonists, including the complexities involving Katya),the helicopter crash/rescue in the Gulf and the battle for a town in the Balkans. On the other hand a lot seems unrealistic--And Maggie...was really a fairy godmother figure rather than a friend and mentor, wasn't she? And the language is sometimes stilted. I think there's a core of a really good series here that is about honestly half as long as it actually is. Yet I literally had trouble putting these books down to do things like go to bed (even as I skimmed a lot of the sex scenes) because the adventure/intrigue would kick into high gear when I least expected it. Anyway, I would only recommend these books to people who have a taste for this sort of thing. I don't think I'll forget it soon, anyway.