“J.T. Patten’s Buried in Black takes readers deep into the shadows with an explosive narrative that could only have been written by a man who has been there himself. Buried in Black delivers on action, intrigue, and excitement!” —Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Agent in Place THE MAN FROM ORANGE Intelligence and counterterrorist expert J.T. Patten uncovers the ultra … Intelligence and counterterrorist expert J.T. Patten uncovers the ultra top-secrect war against terror in his explosive black-ops series …
NO MISSION IS IMPOSSIBLE
Drake Woolf is the perfect throwaway agent—a deadly, invisible force able to handle the blackest of black-ops missions. No one’s better when it comes to search and destroy. But his lethal drive feeds a relentless hunger. It’s all his handlers at Task Force Orange can do to point him at the right targets. This time he’s up against a massive, global conspiracy. In his deadly crosshairs are a Venezuelan terrorist, hordes of elite Iranian assassins, and a beautiful and wily FBI counterintelligence agent. Drake’s aim is flawless but his judgments are all over the place. If he doesn’t get it right this time, it will be Hell on Earth.
Raves for J.T. Patten
“J.T. Patten has done all the research. All you need to do is hang on for the ride.”
—Sean Naylor, Bestselling Author of Relentless Strike and Not a Good Day to Die
“Primed Charge reads like a throwback to when action movies didn’t suck. J.T. Patten, with his penchant for been-there-done-that authenticity, remains an author to watch closely.”
—The Real Book Spy
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The Presence of Evil by J.T. Patten (rumor has it that isn’t his real name) is book 2 in the Task Force Orange series.
The story is fast paced with action bursting out from the first page. The author does a good job of taking us deep into the secret Black Ops world with glimpse of protocols, operatives, locations and missions. Rumor has it the author has personal experience in this world, which is why he doesn’t use his real name.
The two main characters are really well defined, Drake Woolf (the assassin anti-hero) and the FBI Counter Terrorist expert Teresa Hallidy. Both have depth and there is much more to them then you would guess. There is a laugh out loud moment when we first meet Teresa that just had me double over laughing.
Unfortunately somewhere just before the halfway mark in the book it just petered out and I found it rather difficult to keep reading. I would put the book down and forget to come back to it and when 2 days went by and I hadn’t read anymore, I knew it was time to shelve it as a TBC (to be continued) in the hopes that I might pick it up again.
J.T. Patten is back with his second Task Force Orange novel, The Presence of Evil. Writing under a pseudonym due to his long successful career in the intelligence community. Some notable work he shares in his bio reads like Mitch Rapp’s biography. Having spent a lot of time in the Middle East, including being a notable authority on Iran and the IRGC, as well as the Qods Force, cyber threat detection, financial crimes, irregular and unconventional warfare strategies in counterterrorism, intel collection, and social network disruption. I’m not telling you to give it a good rating on Amazon & Goodreads, but if you don’t this author has the skill and capability to hack your account and do it himself.
The Presence of Evil sees our favorite hero / villain still being hunted by the beautiful FBI agent Tresa Halliday. Even though she received the recognition for saving the Secretary of State publicly, from the events that took place in Buried in Black. Her supervisors encouraged her to continue the hunt and bring these rogue operators down. When we first see SA Halliday, she’s at a bar and Patten managed to interject some humor into his writing.
This Task Force Orange novel starts off with a tragedy, as if Drake Woolf hasn’t suffered enough. For this one however, the man from Orange is actually present and due to the way the events unfolded, he feels responsible for what happened. Which only exacerbate his already fragile mind and he spirals downhill really quickly, toying around with certain aspects of PTSD that are prominent in many veterans in the real world today.
Driven only by the mission, he pushes forward into the streets of Chicago, hunting and using some very formidable skills to try and prevent a mass attack on the public. Up against dangerous Iranian Assassins, Venezuelan terrorists, and his brother. Drake is in The Presence of Evil, and the only way out is for him to kill them all. But he has to accomplish this before he’s caught or killed, before he gives in to the battle within, before his brother gets to him. This fast-paced thriller is clearly written by someone who has been there and done that. Capturing you in each scene, putting danger in the crosshairs with time running out.
Don’t just read it, get read in into the blacker than black world that J.T. Patten use to occupy and now writes about. With so much real-world experience under his belt, Patten’s writing includes bad ass action, emotional turmoil, violence, and those real-world battle scars veterans are walking around with daily. As a reader, I can see how much growth this author has accomplished getting better and better with each novel he writes, this series is one you don’t want to miss out on.