Very poor writing. In the first scene of conflict, main character takes a prisoner, loots his gun, and somehow, three paragraphs latter the prisoner somehow has his gun back and no one is concerned at all that their prisoner is armed. Which immediately bites them in the ass… if there are MAJOR plot holes within your first two chapters and you can already see the authors hand at work, it immediately sets a scene in the readers mind that absolutely nothing you write will hold any weight because in a few paragraphs you may just happen to change your mind…
