Monster Hunter International series

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Anybody familiar with it? I accidentally started with #4 instead of #1 (Barnes & Noble didn't have the first one in stock and I knew that Monster Hunter Alpha and Monster Hunter Vendetta were not #1). I finished it a few days ago. If not, the author is a former FFL who decided to make a universe where monsters from his beloved B-grade horror movies are real and people are actually competent in how they are dealt with. It's a good story with the firearms being at least as important as the story (he could easily have gotten away with not describing the main character's automatic Saiga-12 in so much detail, just saying that the silver bullet-shooting weapon on their helicopter was a "machine gun," not an M240, describing the large Polish monster hunter's weapon as a "machine gun" instead of a PKM, saying that the main character's wife uses a "sniper rifle" instead of describing it to the last detail down to the match-grade ammunition, or something like that). Massad Ayoob said that firearm enthusiasts who like science fiction would love it (that's the beginning of an excerpt from his review of the first one on the back cover of the fourth one).

What happens in the fourth book is that an industry convention of monster hunting is happening right across the street from SHOT. A rival agency to the men in black who oversee the monster hunters (who are private military companies that seem to have SOT FFL's due to having things like M240's) decides to unleash a monster on the building with this convention so that they can get funding for their own stuff. SHOT gives free samples to monster hunters because the vendors know how much money they are willing to spend and one guy gets an Anzio 20mm rifle that's used at the end of the book.

Re: Monster Hunter International series

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I've read all the books in the series, including the one that was just released. They are pretty entertaining and chock full of gun porn. The author has another series out (The Grimnoir Chronicles) that is pretty entertaining as well. They make for great "popcorn" reads (the term I use for books I read to be entertained and amused, rather than for any redeeming intellectual/societal/learning value).

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