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Dwelling In The Gray

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this book is one of the best books i have ever read it is written so well it is like the author was actually there. i loved this book so mutch i could not stop reading it it took me to days to read it. i could not put it down the action is superb i truly hope they make it a movie but i dont know how it could measure up to the book.

I've read all of Clancy, Cussler, Dale Brown, most of W.E.B. Griffin, Ludlum, and Stephen Hunter, and others, and I find this book a moving read with real heroes. "Dwelling In The Gray" was written by Clay Harvey after he wrote "A Flash Of Red" and "A Whisper Of Gray", but the story line occurs years earlier. This is the best of the three. This book is moving because of Clay Harvey's real characters you can envision meeting in real life, his humor that will have you laughing to tears, and his development of character inner struggles with his main character, Tyler Vance, that leaves you wondering how you would handle the situation.

Harvey is at his best with his realistic and surprising humor, his description of a close friendship between Tyler Vance and his best friend, and his way of writing that puts you as an observer in the action scenes. As with his two previous books, Harvey knows his guns, and he knows how to describe fight scenes up close.

After reading this book, I have continued to look for it's sequel to come out - both to continue good writing, and to fill in the gap between this book and "A Flash Of Red." I hope Clay Harvey continues writing. His writing leaves me with a desire to meet him in person.

Harvey is an incredible author. Not many people can eloquently write everyday humor, which is the best kind. He can. He has good views on the world and a wonderful sense of humor. He is also very knowledgable and can therefore write convincingly.
I highly recommend all of his books.

Recommendations
I recommend this book for people 15 and up. The reason is because it has intense violent action and some language. This is a book for people that like action and have a
liking for these kinds of books.
I think that anybody would really like this book that's into these books. I strongly recommend this book for anyone to the age of 15 and up.

The JTC review is far more literate and convincing than Harvey's awful attempt at writing. I fear Harvey probably can't even spell "irony" so I'm obliged to believe his dross is to be taken at face value as literature!

All right already! I admit it! I bought this book because of its cover. Snipers in murky backgrounds interest me. I beagn this novel with great expectations, especially with the long list of praise from Publishers Weekly and Jack Higgens et al. But alas I was quickly bogged down with the peculiar prose throughout the novel. The Hee Haw style grates early on and doesn't get much better throughout. The author uses the word Grand'maw in narration, then also uses words like soubrette, caliginous, and raptorous a bit later. It's enough to give a reader whiplash. The story is about a superhuman at all of 160 lbs. who beats the crap out of anybody and everybody in the novel. After using his fists, feet, and head for a while, he uses guns to slaughter hordes of North Koreans in the DMZ. He then gets religion and refuses to kill anymore after seeing one of his victims die close up. Cliche'd heavies come and go in a few pages with no build up in suspense nor any sort of character depth. Much of the dialog leaves the reader to guess who is doing the talking. Forty percent of the words between the capital letter and the period are not sentences. This may be all right occasionally as a stream of consciousness, but in this novel it is a great distraction. There is no plot line that runs through the novel. It is just a series of scenes used to fill in time as a prequel to some previous novels using the same character. That said, I have to say that the author is a very courageous writer. Anyone who writes Pow! Pow! and bbbuuurrrpppp and then sends it off to a publisher has more guts than I do. If I ever did that, I'd be afraid of the editor's hitmen for the next few years.

I have read all of Clay Harveys "Tyler Vance" books and "Dwelling in the Gray" is by far the best of the 3 books. This book tells of Tylers Vances' early years and his army "experience". Frankly I was expecting Tylers' experiences in Korea to involve, cross border raids, assiniations and etc. Tyler spent all his time on the South Korean side of the Demarcation Line. Tylers past as a good samaritian catches up with him when he returns home after his stint in the Army. If you haven't read any of Harvey's "Tyler Vance" books, read this one first. However, the other books do not come up to Harveys writing in "Dwelling in the Gray"

I have become a big Clay Harvey fan. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two books and this one was no different. An excellent story that describes Tyler Vance's life before the other books. I strongly recommend it to fans of Robert Crais, Robert B Parker or Charles Kneif

This book will make you buy more from Amazon.com. I picked it up at a bookstore and immediately sent off for the other two in the series. I'm also looking for the earlier ones he wrote. Combine Stephen Hunter's Bob the Nailer with Travis Magee and you've got a character with a lot of literary miles left in him. The plots are a bit preposterous, but the research and reality are there.

The book Dwelling in the gray is an exciting, brutal, snd funny. The funny is where Park tells Rahman, and Vance "Ha-ha! No needo king. havo three al-ready." The brutal part is where Vance drops his canteen, and then "shot three men" in the head. The exciting part is where"the gun coaced-and-locked in violation." If you like action you will like this book because there is something exciting and shows a lot of action there's tis boy named Vance he goes into the Army to stay out of jail. this is a really good book.