Bravo
– Greg Rucka – (Muhlholland Books)
Author Greg Rucka has quietly built a collection of
highly entertaining characters that span a whole pile of great books, that for
some reason I can’t quite explain have flown under the radar.
His latest entry, Bravo,
featuring tough guy, shooter, Jad Bell runs at a breakneck pace, weaving
mysterious players who drive the story while hanging around the edges of the
action and the hunt for answers to prevent a terrorist attack on the homefront.
This follow up to Rucka’s first shot of the Jad Bell character, Alpha has me re-considering my list of
favorite authors to make room for this highly skilled writer.
On
Scope – A Sniper Novel – Jack Coughlin, USMC Retired (St. Martins Press)
Spain, like much of the free world, is teetering in the
brink of economic collapse, when a group of Islamic bankers offer up a
seemingly no strings attached solution. Their hidden agenda is to break off a
chunk of the European Union to create a new Islamic stronghold. In an effort to
protect their interests and hold off United States sticking their nose into
things, these Islamists launch a brazen attack on the U. S. embassy in Madrid.
The plan backfires and brings the group of six Islamic
bankers squarely into the sites of Task Force Trident and ace sniper Kyle
Swanson. In On Scope from author Jack
Coughlin, the latest entry in the ongoing Sniper Novel series, Swanson and company
take the fight directly to the terrorists, picking off the bad guys one by one.
Given the world economic climate and the terrorist’s desire to find new ways to
bring the world to its knees, this story chillingly all to real.
Days
of Rage -Brad Taylor (Dutton Books)
Former Delta Force operator/commander Brad Taylor
continues his string of successfully calling the shots when it comes to new
terrorist threats in his latest entry in the Pike Logan thriller series, Days of Rage. When you consider the
average timeline for writing and publishing novels, Taylor would have had to
put words on the page about a year prior to the average person ever even hearing
of the terror group Boko Haram, who have been making headlines the past couple
of months.
But, that’s exactly what he has done; preemptively offering
up an advance warning of this new threat. The fact that Taylor also choose to
heat up the cold war, with the Russians using the Boko Haram terrorists as a
proxy to launch a weapon of mass destruction attack on the United States and
you’ve got to wonder what else Taylor has up his sleeve.
While Logan and the rest of the Taskforce team are used
to playing the role of the hunter, this time around not only do they have to
put a stop to the attack, but they also find themselves facing a challenge that
has them squarely in the sights of a hunter. High entertainment at a blistering
pace.
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