THE RED GAMBIT SERIES

 I notice that you have updated Opening Moves and was wondering if you have any interest in recieved editorial or factual comments for any possible future editing?

 Currently reading Stalmate and just off the top of my head I've noticed:

* In the scenario where a british trawler sinks a russian sub, the trawler uses active sonar and the sub is then described as "unsuspecting".  I'm pretty sure an active sonar pulse would be very noticed by it's target, expecially at the very short range of this example.

* I don't think an exploding depth charge has a secondary shock wave.

* The transliteration of russian words into english letters is so bad I thought it was a Kindle error.  For example, the russian word for one = odin, not adin.  I thought it was a code word until I read that phase two was dva, which is of course two.  Until I noticed that I had no idea that you were tranliterating 34, once again I thought it was Kindle garble.

* Oh, and 'over and out' is movie talk, not military radio talk.  'Over' means I'm finished talking and now I expect to hear a response. 'Out' means the conversation is over and I'm leaving.

For a Kindle e-book your works are very well edited and perhaps I'm just being a nit-picker

I'm also curious about your inclusion of russian women serving directly in combat units and as combat units.  I naturally know that there were russian women serving in the red army but I had not thought there were serving so much in this way.  I'm going to look into this to see if my impression is correct, but would apprecite any pointers to russian women serving in combat units like mortar units and as signals troops in front line small infantry units.

Best of luck and get back to work on the next book.

Im always up for improving things. On the women side, there was one whole tank unit that was female, the number escapes me at the moment. Women moved more and more into the combat units.

I shall check the active sonar thing. That may be a cock up lol

Secondary shock wave, I believe, happens when the water is forced outwards by the explosion and then rushes back to fill the void.

My russian language is nil, so the 1,2,3 I took from a website. Obviously one that wasnt up to much lol

Dont think I agree about over and out. I will check that one out, as I will the active sonar bit.

BTW, as a courtesy, I would ask that you preface any similar post with the spoiler alert so that the members dont get anything spoiled for them. Thanks.

Thx for your very kind post, it occured to me later that I might have been sticking my nose where it wouldn't be appreciated.  I'll check up a few things and get back with you.  And it had never occured to put out a spoiler alert, thx for the heads up.

Decent criticism I can always accept :-) If it improves the books it can only be good.