It is difficult to find commentary on the sex/violence/language content of book if you are interested. If you like A/A and if you want a quick read, I would recommend this novel. A little padding in the story would go a long way and I hope to see growth in future novels. While I found that the writing was often excessively "to the point", the author is a skilled writer. This is very good introduction to the author. I don't know if the author had an editor but if he did it himself, he did an admirable job. As I said in the beginning, the writing is better than most indie books I have read. For the most part, Zeb is a minor superhero but that it pretty standard in the Action Adventure genre. The author did an excellent job of writing the action sequences and wrote them convincingly. Zeb was cool operator who could move quickly and be deadly. Speaking of action, this was the best part of the book. Regardless, the book would have been better served had more space been devoted to developing something other than action. Lets be honest, if you are going to sit and watch Die Hard, you don't want John McClane to sit down and have an introspective moment, you want him to run away from fighter jets and kill as many bad guys as possible. Fortunately for the author, when it comes to action/adventure, I put those preferences aside. Generally, this would be a major drawback in my review. He focuses on what is necessary, avoids filler and gets to the point.
Unlike Reilly, the cast of characters is much smaller and Carter is a lone gun. There is some character development but it is rather minor. Like Reilly, the author spends more time developing the action and moving the story than he does developing the character. The book is short and the action is, at times, frantic. I would say that the authors writing style is closer to Reilly than the first two. In my opinion, this novel would appeal to fans of James Rollins, Steve Berry and Matthew Reilly.
This novel is a thriller of the Action/Adventure type. With help from the Broker, a man who trades in information, Zeb works to bait and trap a killer while his prey is working to do the same to Zeb. Zeb witnessed atrocities around the world but an event in the Congo has come back to haunt his memories and aims to take him down.
The protagonist, Zeb Carter, is a security consultant with a past shrouded in shadow. It is not perfect by any means but it is better written than other novels I have read by "published" authors during this past year. I can honestly say that it is one of the best written indie novels I have read. I had read many positive reviews of Ty Patterson's The Warrior and decided to give it a shot. My experiences have been bad and the books were worse. I rarely read a self-published/indie author.
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