LD Sledge

This review is from: Command Influence (Paperback)

This book was fast-paced and gritty. Couldn’t put it down. I hope this author writes some more. His style is wonderfully readable and his characters come off the page and get into your head really quickly. Robbie Robinson, Los Angeles, California

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent legal fiction, December 13, 2011

It’s only good if it works. (NJ, USA) This review is from: Command Influence (Paperback)

“The press was present with cameras and pads…They looked like sharp eyed hunting dogs, ready to leap baying from their kennels on the scent of some fabulous excrement…”

Does that convey an image, or what? The author pulls no punches with this novel about two military lawyers with a sleeze for a client. Not only does he land killer blows on the press and on equally sleezy doctors, but on the workings of the military justice system and the Pentagon/Washington good ol’ boy system. 

A fantastic ending – not AT ALL what I was expecting. 

Don’t read it if you will be offended by its frank look at the darker side of humankind. 

Sledge writes with a sort of Clive Cussler, old-fashioned viewpoint on women that I can do without – the tough guy getting seduced by overly eager and gorgeous females – but hey, its his story, right? But the whole book has a spirit of playfulness and integrity that brings it up to a level that makes me glad that I read it and I recommend it without reserve.

5.0 out of 5 stars COMMAND INFLUENCE A true review -, December 9, 2011

By Carter Manierre -

This review is from: Command Influence (Paperback)

I have known LD for a good number of years, and have always held the belief that he was the possible product of an old coot and some sort of varmint (he IS a lawyer by trade you understand). I also knew that he has authored several books, but never had a hankering to read one of them because, face it, how many people actually KNOW a really GOOD author on an up-close, first-name, hang-around-with basis whose books you would actually ENJOY?

So one day, when my email traffic was thankfully low, I received a link to the first two chapters of his book COMMAND INFLUENCE, and in a moment of good old boy weakness I clicked the link and downloaded these two chapters.

I was hooked. For one thing, the offering of these two chapters was WAY too short to satisfy me, requiring that I immediately went to Amazon and ordered the book. That dang book cost me hours of sleep for several days, and my wife actually missed me as my nose was buried within.

This old coot/varmint combo can tell a tale! Lawyer stories can often be a bit dry, and most lawyers can only write intentional obfuscations loaded with “whereases” and “wherefores” and other jargon understood only within that august profession. LD has managed to spin this yarn (I have it on good authority that the tale is essentially true – or as Jack Nicholson said in SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE “I’ve always told you some version of the truth.”

The story picks you up, carries you along, spins you around a couple of times with a wild lurch here and there, and fires you into the air with a surprising and entertaining twist at the end. A 5 star good read for sure! Carter Harrison, Clearwater, Florida