Navy Justice #1
Treason

Review

I bought this book because I thought it would be interesting seeing a JAG story from a Christian perspective. As any who have looked through my website can vouch for (and that probably means you, since you've found this review), I enjoyed the TV series JAG. To be clear, this isn't a book set in the Bellisario Productions' JAG universe. However, it's got a similar mix of action, intrigue, and courtroom drama. And a couple of times where certain points felt like it was straight from an episode, though it wasn't. So, for that aspect, it delivered exactly what I wanted: a reasonably well-told courtroom drama in a military setting.

However (and I bet you could tell that was coming), it also suffered from some ailments that I dreaded would be present. There were times it felt more like a sermon than a story (though not many). The primary character (and by lack of contradiction, possibly the author) confused political opinion and affiliation with doctrines of religious faith and status of one's heart and soul. And, finally, there was an obligitory "love-story" to get in the way of the primary plot: not very well done, and not even as interesting to me as the Harm-Mac tension on the TV series (of which I was not a huge fan, though not overly opposed to it); some authors should write what they know (and, as a former JAG lawyer, Don Brown knows the JAG Corps) and are good at, and leave the romance writing to romance writers.