D-Boys

Not your typical SOF story. Great use of today's tech combined with military action. Highly recommend.

Fast paced, exciting and terrifying. Also, well researched with pretty good political explanations as to how we got where we are.

Man I thought the ARISEN stories were good but this, THIS needs to a be a Hollywood Blockbuster. Fast paced and hyper computer gamer nerd fantasy with digital and real world shootouts. The humor is so realistic readers will fee their cheeks blush and bellies tighten with chuckles.

The story itself wasn't bad,recognized some characters from other books, the difference is in the narrations. The narrator sounded 16 years old and didn't give much life to the characters. I think in a few years he might get better. I bought the second book to this but I think I'll just read it and not listen.

I love both Military/SpecOps fiction and nonfiction. I have read most the major titles going back as far as Richard Marcinko's Rouge Warrior. At first, I was a little skeptical of D-Boys due to it being fiction and being based on The elusive Delta Force. There seem to be SEAL books coming out all the time but rarely any books on Delta. The first few pages were a little different for me due to the writing style but I was able to settle right in and ended up flying through the book. Do not put it down prior the the end of the first chapter and you will end up being hooked. It's interesting because prior to reading this book the one I just finished hours before was Eric Haney's "Inside Delta Force" (a book I VERY HIGHLY recommend and have read numerous times). It seemed as I was reading D Boys the stories were straight out of Haney's book just wrapped up in this new work of fiction. I was really happy to read his Acknowledgment of Haney at the end. With that said, I really enjoyed this book and will go right into his second D Boys book. It was fast paced. It seemed accurate and up to date with the latest technology and seemed believable to me. Thanks for the great read!

After what seemed an intolerably long wait for the preview to become a book I came back here to edit my initial review. I recall this initial review of my impatience to have been unfair to the author and wanted to remedy it.D-Boys was a really great read, action packed, militarily accurate in most cases, believable characters and the dialogue between team members is great. My favorite is where "Mike" is asking about bomb de-fusing training!A war within a war by using a video game backdrop was a cool concept and a nice change of pace for a military book of this style.The author tells his sources for info, if you're a reader of those types of books and keep sharp you will see the homage paid throughout the book.Great job Mr. Fuchs! I look forward to the next.

This book should make compulsive gamers put down their joysticks for a few hours, and non-gamers into fast-paced, elite strike team anti-terrorist action adventure novels give a loud cheer. Mr. Fuchs very seamlessly melds the real world and the virtual gaming world into a believable, humorous at times, extremely entertaining scenario that is entirely plausible in a scary way. The characters are well-drawn and engaging too. If you ever played an FPS games like Far Cry, Call of Duty, the Halo series, etc, or any MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, you will not miss a beat on anything he writes here. Even if you are not a gamer, he explains what you need to know as he goes along. And who knows? You might just be tempted to try gaming as well as ordering his next book in the series (which I already have.) Oh. And I am a very old gamer--64 to be precise, and only started gaming in the mid-90s, but got totally hooked. Definitely recommended.

There are so many standard authors that I've got a dozen single book collections. They all seem to have the same run of the mill script. Mr. Fuchs however has been able to flow together philosophy, pyschology, warrior credo and ethics, and get this... a massive multiplayer online first person shooter internet game with the finest warriors on earth in assymetrical warfare. Can't get more assymetrical than that. To picture these warriors sitting at desks fighting the battles on a PC got me chuckling and staying interested all the way to the end. It seemed a little choppy, as if Mr. Fuchs was trying to just get to the end of each scene, but the action was easy to follow. Could have been a Mac Bolan reject but this author gets you thinking. fun ride and fun read.This is also my first review so I hope I do right by the author.

This book is a devastating blend of everything I look for in a book: action, suspense, poetry, humour, searing intelligence, challenges to reality, characters to fall in love with. The book, just like the heroes so gloriously portrayed in it, embodies that ultimately sexy combination of brain and muscle. Superficial readers can read this as a heart-stopping action thriller, but intelligent readers will see much more than that. Yes there are massive gunfights (so vivid that all my dreams were gunfights for several days) but there is also a message about humanity and reality. And while most authors speak via their characters' voices, Fuchs achieves that rare feat of conveying a message to us through the *structure* of the plot itself. Think Sophie's World and the Time Traveler's Wife, with the tight story-telling of, say, Wilkie Collins, the poetry of Thomas Hardy, the vision of Lord of the Flies, the humanity of Jane Austen, and very big guns.I finished this book with fireworks going off in my brain and tears pouring down my face, and immediately read it a second time. My only complaint is that the next book in the series is not yet available; I want to read it *right now*.

I am not the greatest fan of fictional military story telling but this was brilliant, being a gamer the connection between the real world and the online world was a brave step to take but pulled it off with room to spare, Yes there are gamers out there who live in the online world and am sure would give Spec Forces a run for their money in theatre albeit synthetic, but to bring to light the crossover between the two was spectacular in so many ways, Not to detract from the real world Ops either, masterfully laid out in a way that you could visualise the whole story, How to end such a story well there are so many ways but Michael has done it with the same respect and quiet acceptance of just another day at the office that real military teams see their work as. I have just purchased the next book Counter Assault and eagerly await book 3 due this year

Fast paced, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable. The military jargon is balanced well and provides the detail necessary but without disrupting the story flow. The characters are involving and you get a sense of a real person rather than just a "gung ho" gun platform.The story differs from the usual military fiction fare when it deals with the online world. Michael examines the increasing way we are building our lives around our wired and wireless networks and asks. Are we ready to work together to defend them?He then goes on to examine the use of cyberspace as a resource for training direct action cyber-based terrorism.I'd highly recommend this book

I love this author, he rights well, the action is a hundred miles an hour and the characters, skills and equipment feel authentic.Great book, well worth your time and money.Well done sir!

D-Boys is an interesting concept and owes much to Eric Hanley's excellent book on the Delta Force, but for me this book was so poorly executed I was struggling from the start.The premise was sound but I wish the author had used a less irritating style of writing. Maybe there was a particular reason it was written this way but personally I think it was a shame and wrecked what could have been a pretty good book.