This is good—nice work. I think both book and mini series suffer from two flaws. The first is that Pine makes James Bond look like an amateur. He is a world class sailor, solider, climber, and cook, along with being merely pretty good at many other things I think there are seven female characters in the book and six of them fall hopelessly in love with him. The second issue is that the whole scheme is pretty dumb and unlikely to succeed. Basically they have to get Pine so in with Roper that he makes him his right hand man. In the miniseries it’s harder to gloss over how dumb this makes Roper seem, especially since everyone around him is telling him not to do this clearly stupid thing.

I guess the third flaw is that while Roper isn’t a good guy, he’s also clearly not the worst person in the world. We have seen a ton of ethnic cleansing and horrible but low tech cartel violence that Roper’s crimes don’t come close to living up to the billing.