"Treason"

Treason [Navy Justice, Book 1] (Don Brown)

Yes, that's DON Brown, not DAN Brown. And man, this is a bad book. I got this for free on the Kindle store and I still feel ripped off. This is probably one of the most amateurish books I've ever read - everyone is flat and smotheringly one-dimensional. The bad guys - stock Evil Muslim Terrorists (TM) straight from central casting - all have horribly stilted "My brother, let us destroy this cute kitten in the name of our evil god, Allah" type dialog. They go around doing typical Evil Muslim Terrorist things, such as throwing hand grenades in churches, and assassinating Israeli ambassadors, and, um, serving for years in the United States Navy? Hey, I didn't say it made sense.
Meanwhile, that's just half the book. The other half is a military trial where a SEAL is accused of raping an officer. (What do these plotlines have to do with each other? Nothing! Ha ha!) This part of the book actually has our "hero" in it, a military prosecutor. And what does our hero do? Well, he, uh, prosecutes a rape case and starts dating the victim about two days after the incident took place. This part of the book gets twice as much ink as the other part, and it sure makes a Evil Muslim Terrorist named "John Neptune" throwing a grenade into a church look tightly written when the author takes twice as long to describe a boring dinner date in which nothing interesting happens. Kind of like how getting kicked in the butt is better than getting punched in the face - the Evil Muslim Terrorist sections may be incredibly dumb, clumsily written, offensive, and obvious, but at least something happens, which beats the part of the book that's dumb, clumsily written, offensive, and obvious, and nothing happens.
Overall, I'd give this a B- and a Shows Promise! from a 16 year old in a high school English class. As a finished novel, the only grade it deserves is the dreaded

Grade: F-