Gave Up On: Rebels of Mindanao by Tom Anthony

Gave Up On: Rebels of Mindanao by Tom Anthony, 2008, 9780825305146.

Suffers from first novel issues. The action was sluggish and the tale went along too slow.

Guy living on Mindanao Island in the Philippines is recruited by West Point classmate to hunt down and kill a Turk working for Al Qaeda as a money courier to the Abu Sayyaf terrorists on Mindanao island. Guy is working with limited support from government and has to recruit his own mercenaries to catch the Turk. Guy gets to keep the $5 million that the Turk has brought along to finance a rebellion and get all the disparate rebellion groups on Mindanao to join together.

Things moved too slow. The political explanations behind what was going on were long-winded. The frequent third-person changes from character to character were confusing to follow. I read halfway through and knew I should quit when a major terrorist bombing during a parade was uninteresting and lacked any suspense.