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Author: Charles C. Anderson 

Publisher: Outskirts Press

ISBN: 978-1-4327-8860-5

Dr. Charles C. Anderson, M.D., FACP, FACEP has recently written a riveting thriller about the United States being under potential threat of a nuclear bomb in his book The Farm.

This three hundred and thirty-three page book comes in hard or soft cover. The soft front cover jacket has a mushroom cloud explosion across a sea of water and a city in the background. The back jacket is a black background with white wording describing the book and its author along with a color photograph of the author himself. There were no grammar or typographical errors, but one punctuation error was noted.

There are no pretenses to this book, no introduction, no reviews, and no dedication - a nice breather from the usual. The first chapter starts out as a turn pager and the reader does not want to put it down until the very end.

The main story is of Andy, a Navy SEAL and hospital emergency room doctor who has past connections with princes in Saudi Arabia and is dubbed into becoming a buyer for two nuclear bombs. Living in the South on his family’s thirty-four hundred acre Virginian farm, rich with history, gold and caves, it is a perfect setting for a supposed, discreet exchange of the weapons. However, things are not always as they seem and a war breaks out on the property between the Russian seller side and a dishonest CIA man being backed by a corrupt U.S. President.

Andy not only has to deal with protecting his family farm by the use of guns, rockets, trip-wires, explosives and simple bows and arrows, but has to come to terms with his love of a U.S. Agent Lindsay who he unknowingly impregnates.

The reader is waiting and expecting twists and turns and they do indeed happen. However, the book is very technical in the medical field, which may be detrimental to some readers. The violent and sexual scenes are written well and not over-stated, thus the book potentially could be rated PG-13 like similar book-to-movies in the same genre with minor rewriting.

The only time the storyline becomes a little dysfunctional is when Andy protects the Farm by taking on the CIA, other SEALS, the Russians, and delivering twins by C-Section along with performing open heart surgery, all in mere hours of one day. The medical issues with the pregnancy operation and aftermath of post-surgical care seem unrealistic. Also, the outcome regarding the money made during the weapons transfer makes this reader question if in reality all funds should and would be returned to the United States government.

If a reader is looking for lots of action, a little romance and a technical/medical storyline without having to read a Tom Clancy voluminous, over-worded book, The Farm would be an excellent choice.