MWSA Book Review

The Painted Man

Author: Kenneth Floyd

Publisher:  Speculative Fiction Review

Reviewer: Prof Andrew Lubin--MWSA Lead Reviewer

Good action story about the search for WMD's

Ken Floyd’s novel “The Painted Man” combines the best of a good action-adventure story with the pitfalls of casual editing.

Set in Baghdad in April 2003 as the Americans were beginning their search for WMD’s, Floyd’s interesting book pursues the idea that WMD’s did exist, and that Saddam had developed a plan in order to pass them to various insurgent groups should he be deposed.

Floyd‘s cast of characters includes the CIA, the President, and various regular army and Special Forces sorts in a race against time to find where and who has the key to Saddam’s WMD’s.

A good read, Floyd is to be commended on an interesting and entertaining initial literary effort, and here’s hoping that with closer attention to technical details, he’ll write another.