Disappointed? Underwhelmed? Both. I was considering to strip it of yet another star, but figured it's decent enough to merit an above-average verdict, but there it stops.
There is a tedious predictability in having the hero of a series put under extremely hostile conditions impossible to get out of, and then getting out, in a deus ex machina kind of way at that. If you've created a character who can do anything, why destroy the illusion (because, come on - that's what it's all about) by having a Black Hawk coming out of the sky and saving him at the last moment?
The writing seems instrumental in a strange way: with some attention towards displaying the author's knowledge of intricate details of weaponry and vodka distillation techniques, and yet he manages to give one of the male villains a feminine name form (Setyeyiva), probably because it looks and sounds exotic.
Meh.