True Believer

The story is well done, moves along, interesting characters and kept my interest. The problems I have are: 1. audiobook is read like reading an instruction manual. dry, matter of fact, unemotional. The book is written that way but it may come out more in the audio. 2. I know the character is a navy seal and highly trained soldier trained to avoid emotion and get their mission done. However, that lack of emotion makes all attempts at him adding emotion about his family, friends seem just a distraction and doesn't come off sincere. 3. This is the most annoying. The author in preface talks about how cool of a soldier he was with top secret missions and the book had to be reviewed by DOD. Well then in the book there are hundreds of “REDACTED” inserted into the middle of the reading. This is STUPID and ruins the flow. If the DOD said a place/person was to be “REDACTED” then just make up a fake name or generic location. e.g. “.... there were 2 dead. Steve and REDACTED trainer. The REDACTED trainer did not deserve this as the REDACTED was a black site that...”