PIrate Coast by Annette

I wanted to like this book more than I ended up liking it. I'm a big non-fiction buff and love books that tell the story behind the stories we learn, but I found that the book dragged in places and oddly provided even more information than I thought necessary (or perhaps interesting). That being said, I'm glad I read the book and I feel like I learned a lot about the time period, the early years of our naval military (despite the title there really wasn't much about "marines" in the book, was there?) and the parentage so to speak of modern day covert operation policies.

I think one thing about the story was that I didn't care much (personally) for either of the main characters. I could appreciate their intelligence, or their tenacity, or their cleverness but I just couldn't feel ...hmmm..searching for the word....I didn't like them much. I don't know if this was the fault of the author or if they just weren't very likable.

The role of communications (or lack thereof), the media, and public relations (for lack of better word) was very interesting especially compared today's almost instantaneous communications (not just between military and government but between military operations and the rest of the world through media, cell phones, satellite pics, and gosh...now tweeting). You wonder how things would have gone if there hadn't been the long lapses of communications. Who would have "won out"?