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21 people on a mining asteroid. 17 clones. 3 Overseers. 6 Jays. 6 Bees. 5 Ays. 1 Ell. And One Killer. After humanity has exhausted the resources of precious metals in Earth, clones are sent far out in space, to asteroids to harvest zinc, platinum, and nickel. The Overseers direct the programmed perfection: the muscled... Continue Reading →
The Pharaoh Key picks up Gideon's story right after his last mission with Effective Engineering Solutions. Two quick twists jump-start the plot: Gideon's trip to the doctor confirms a prior diagnosis of an inoperable brain disorder and he is given only months to live. And his employer stops payments on his salary and mysteriously closes its... Continue Reading →
“Motives were amorphous, loyalty was nearly impossible and duplicity was everywhere” Like the best Jason Stratham flicks, The Throwaway by Michael Moreci is a guilty pleasure of an action novel. Opening with a spy exchange at the Vienna Airport, Moreci puts you right in the action of the double-dealing world of espionage. The narrative quickly... Continue Reading →
What makes a narrator credible? How is that relationship built between reader and storyteller? Told through flashbacks, memory slips, fantasies, hallucinations, and journal entries, You-Jeong Jeong’s The Good Son is a Korean thriller with a most unreliable narrator. College student Yu-Jin has woken up covered in blood and his morning gets more puzzling, dark, and creepy... Continue Reading →
Larry Bond’s Arctic Gambit is a shifting-chessboard of a military thriller. With a lost American submarine, unrest in the Baltics, and suspicions of advanced Russian missile technology, Bond moves the plot forward in each chapter with quick shifts in the point of view from all sides of the conflict. Set in the near future, the... Continue Reading →
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