From USA Today Bestselling Author, Allen Kent!At the death of fabled CIA operative Bud (Fisher) Liljigren, field agent Adam Zak and his tech-savvy partner, Dreu Sason, are recruited to lead the Agency’s deep-cover Unit 1. When Fisher’s former lover from his service days in Norway alerts the Unit of renewed secret activity in what was once a WWII Nazi experimental lab, Zak recruits a brilliant but … recruits a brilliant but disaffected FBI agent, Janet McIntire, to replace him in the field and lead the investigation.
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As McIntire inserts herself into the life of Alesund, Norway, as the visiting great-niece of Fisher’s wartime lover, word circulates through the international intelligence community that a weaponized strain of the deadly Marburg virus is on the market to be auctioned to the highest bidder. Following a devastating demonstration of the virus’s phenomenal kill rate, McIntire and the Unit 1 team race international buyers to identify the seller, destroy the Marburg mutation, and prevent a global catastrophe.
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A weaponized strain of the deadly Marburg virus is on the market to be auctioned to the highest bidder. A brilliant FBI agent, Janet McIntire, is recruited by Adam Zak and Drew Sason, the new leaders of the Unit 1 team after the death of legendary CIA operative Bud Liljigren. She must lead the investigation into what what was once a WWII Nazi experimental lab, and is now located in Alesund, Norway.
This thriller connects dots across the globe, following the deadly trail of experiments with contagion. The mad scientist has no scruples using the deadly strain on prostitutes, whom he lures to his place for the purpose of experimentation. He also lets the virus loose on a small village to gauge its effects. A local boy who knows where the virus came must be rescued by the deep-cover Unit 1 team.
The characters are carefully drawn by Allan Kent, the events that made them who they are layered in detail, and their appearance vividly described, reflecting that history. “Bud’s face was a network of small scars from fragments of the windscreen that had exploded during his crash. She had stopped noticing them long ago, seeing instead the firm, determined set of his jaw when a problem caught his attention…”
The narrator of the audiobook edition, Paul J. McSorley, an avid listener himself, is not at all embarrassed to tell people that some of the best times of any given day he spends are inside a padded room. His joy at telling the story definitely comes through and his reading is engaging.
In this novel, Kent envisioned a threat to society via biological terror when a strain was developed to be sold to the highest bidder. The men and women working in counter-espionage are the heroes fighting to prevent the global catastrophe.
Tightly written with an authoritative voice, Kent takes the reader on a believable ride through this medical thriller plot line. Interesting and thought provoking.
I took advantage of Amazon whispersync to listen to the narration as well as reading on my Kindle. The narration was very well done.
Highly recommended.
I enjoyed this ride! We saw loved characters and followed an enticing biological warfare story. I especially Iike the pieces taken from real life history. I’m excited to start the next one. The narrator was great.
The Marburg Mutation: Unit 1 Series, Book 4, my seventh outstanding read from author Allen Kent each book better than the last. Reminiscent of author Robert Ludlum’s writings. Outstanding thrillers with well-written characters & plots you can buy into with unexpected twists & turns. I got this book back in May of 2020 and now that I’ve read 4 Allen Kent books in the last 5 days this was next in line. I look forward to reading more from this author and since I own a total of 24 books by him I eagerly look forward to reading more! “I received a free Audible copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.” Next up is Straits of the Between (Unit 1 #5). Narrator Paul J McSorley’s narration made a good book even better. The gifting of this book did not affect my opinion of it. (RIP Marley January 20, 2014 – July 24, 2018).