It was a spectacularly synchronized and effective terrorist act that killed Hail's wife and children and galvanized his anti-terrorism activities. The seminal event driving the Marshall Hail series is a terrorist event 20 years earlier called "The Five," in which five shoulder-fired missiles were used to shoot down five American commercial airliners, each as they took off from one of five different locations around the globe. Fortunately, these slips are minor and aren't so common as to affect the reader's interest in the story. The books all tell good stories that keep your attention, though there are occasional hiccups that mar the flow, hiccups like typos or incomplete sentences that are common in self-publishing, or referring to a Marine officer as "Lieutenant Commander" and "fighter pilot" when he is a Lieutenant and helicopter pilot. One star (really, zero stars) is all this kind of behavior deserves, regardless of writing ability.īrett Arquette's Hail Strike (2018) is the third in his four-book series about Marshall Hail, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist searching for revenge. And this author/his books have been spam-voted to hundreds of lists. HOLY FUCKING CHRIST, does this author have a life?Ĭreating hundreds upon hundreds of sockpuppets to artifically inflate the ratings of your book, having these sockpuppets vote for their fellow sockpuppets, and then using said sockpuppets to create an assload of lists on GR, and then using said sockpuppets to vote on said lists (and also vote on already-existing lists) to shove your book to the top.Īs of this date, 20 Sept 2021, there are about 14,000 socks.
If Arquette was a halfway decent author, then he wouldn't be needing to do this shit.
Whatever reviewers want to call their work, those of you out there who take pleasure in reading books and writing reviews will have come across at least one of these delusional folks who think that their book is the hot shit, yet they need to create sockpuppets to try to sell that 'hot shit'. Seasoned/serious reviewers usually encounter at least one of them in their reviewing. I've seen badly behaving authors try to use sockpuppets to drive up the ratings of their own books, or to drive down the ratings of others, etc etc etc. Update - Goodreads has deleted a good amount of Arquette's sock-bots, but a fair amount of them remain - 22845 ratings across the board, 2850 for this book alone.
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