Title: National Security

Author: Marc Cameron

Genre:Military Thriller

ARC: Audiobook

Series: Jericho Quinn Thillers

Books in series: 8

Book in Series: 1

Publisher: Pinacle

                                     Published: January 6, 2015

                                     Rating:  4 stars

Synopsis:

They can strike at anytime, anywhere.  A public landmark, a suburban shopping mall.  And now, the human body itself.  Three Middle Eastern terrorists have been injected with a biological weapon, human time bombs unleashed on Americal soil.  They are prepared to die.  To spread their disease.  To annihilate millions.  If America hopes to fight this enemy from within, we need a new kind of weapon.  Meet Jericho Quinn, Air Force veteran, Champion boxer.  Trained assassian.  Hand picked for a new global task force that, officially does not exist, Quinn answers only to the Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. President himself.

His methods are as simple, and as brutal, as his codename.  The Hammer.

My Thoughts:

Although the build up to the climax was a little slow, I truly enjoyed this book.  The author takes us into depth each character so that we can get to know each one, and also shows us from each characters point of view the events leading up to the actual final climax.  

Jericho Quinn is a very quiet laid back man, but he is very good at what he does and he does it well.  Hence why he is called The Hammer.  He has a very special skill set and the government need him for it. He and his team battle to find the terrrorist and the author showed us how he went about doing it.  

This was well written, and definitely a book I will read or listen to again.  

About the Author:

A retired Chief Deputy U.S Marshall, Marc Cameron spent nearly thirty years in law enforcement.  His assignments have taken him to Alaska to Manhattan, Canada to Mexico and dozens of points in between.  He holds a second degree black belt in Jujitsu and is a certified scuba diver and man-tracker.

An avid adventure motorcyclist, Cameron's books heavily feature bikes and bikers-from OSI Jericho Quinn's beloved BMW to Harley Davidsons, Royal Enfields, Ducatis and most everything on two wheels,

Cameron lives in Alaska with his wife, blue heeler dog, and BMW GS motorcycle. 

Vist him at www.marccameronbooks.com

 

 Title: North of Nowhere

Author: Allison Brennan

Genre: Thriller

Pages: 360

ARC: Audiobook/ Kindle

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: Augusy 8, 2023

Rating: 5 stars

Synopsis:

After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntrye have been dreading has arrived.  Boyd McIntyre, head of a Los Angeles crime family, has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town and is minutes away from kidnapping them,  They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfires hits the fuel line.  The pilot, a man who has been raising them as his own, mamges to crash land in the middle  of the Montana wilderness.  The siblings hike deep into the wood, searching desperately for safety- unaware of the severity of the approaching storm.

Boyd's sister Ruby left Los Angeles for the Army years ago, cutting  off contact in order to keep her niece and nephew safe and free from the horrors of the McIntyre clan.  So when she gets an emergency call that the plane has gone down with the kids inside, she drops everything to try to save them.

As the storm builds, Ruby isn't the only person looking for them.  Boyd has hired an expert tracker to find and bring them home.  And rancher Nick Lorenzo, who knows these mountains better than anyone and doesn't understand why the kids are running, is on their trail too.

But there is a greater threat to Kristen and Ryan out there.  More volatile then the incoming blizzard, more dangerous than the family they ran from or the natural predators they could encounter.  Who finds them first could determine if they live or die.

My thoughts:

Allison Brennan did an excellent job with writing this thriller about two children who are hiding from their father because he is the head of a criminal family, but there is a plot twist that even I didn't see. I was shocked but it was an excellent story. We follow the teenagers as they hide out in the mountains of Montana to not be found by their father, as numerous parties search to find them to either keep them safe or to kidnap them. This author and narrator kept my attention through out the whole book. I would definitely recommend this book to others. Hence my rating of 5 stars!

About the Author

Allison Brennan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling award winning author of three dozen thrillers and numerous short stories.  She was nominated for Best Paperback Original Thriller by the International Thriller Writers, had multiiple nominations and two Daphne du Maurier Awards, and is a five-time RITA finalist for Best Romantic Suspense.  

Allison believes that life is to shore to be bored, so she had five kids and spends all her non writing time as a sports spectator, chauffer, and short-order cook for her children.  She has a dog, two cats, and three chickens.  Allsion and her family live in northern California

Title: Dark Corners

Author: Megan Goldin

Genre: Mystery/ Suspense

Pages:352

Publisher; St. Martin's Press

Published: August 8, 2023

                            ARC: Kindle

                            Raiting: 4 stars

Synopsis:

Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have suspected him in the murders of six women.  As his release date approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot young influencer with a huge social media following.  Hours later, Maddison disappears, and police suspect she's been kidnapped- or worse is Maddison's disappearance connected to her visit to Bailey?  And why was she visiting him in the first place?

When they hit a wall in the investigation, the FBI reluctantly asks for Rachel Krall's help in finding the missing influencer.  Maddison seems to only exxist on social media, she has no family, no friends, and other than her posts, most people have never seen her.  Who is she really?  Using a fake Instagram account, Rachel goes undercover to BuzzCon, a popular influencer conference, where she discovers a world of fierce rivalry that may have turned lethal.

When the police find the body of a woman with a tattoo of a snake eating its tail, identical to a tattoo Rachel had seen on Bailey's hand-the FBI must consider a chilling possibilty:Bailey has an accomplice on the outside and a dangerous obsession with influencers, including Rachel.  Suddenly the target of a monster hiding in plain sight, Rachel is forced to confron the very dangers that lurk in the darl corners of the internet.

My Thoughts

This book was awesome, aside from the fact that it kept going back and forth between the killers point of view and then Rachel's.  I got confused at first because I wasn't sure whose point of view it was until later in the book.  

It was well written, but it could have been a little more specfic on whose point of view it was or wasn't.  

The plot was excellent and it definitely kept me reading and hoping Rachel and the FBI could find the killer.  

I would recommend this book to anyone who loves mysteries.

I am giving this 4 stars!

About the Author

MEGAN GOLDIN worked as a correspondent for Reuters and other media outlets where she covered war, peace, international terrorism and financial meltdowns in the Middle East and Asia. She is now based in Melbourne, Australia where she raises three sons and is a foster mum to Labrador puppies learning to be guide dogs. She is the author of The Escape Room, The Night Swim, and Stay Awake.