Hasan Khalid has been a thorn in the side of the United States for years. Now adopting the moniker Al Thi’ib, or The Wolf, he is taking his war to a whole new level with even bolder attacks.Casey Reddick is the Heisman Trophy winner and a lock to be drafted in the first round of the upcoming NFL draft, until a devastating injury changes everything. When Casey starts working with a private … intelligence group, he finds himself on a different kind of team, playing a game with much higher stakes. When a nuclear device goes missing from Pakistan, all the intel seems to indicate that Al Thi’ib has possession of the weapon. Can Casey and his team track down the missing nuke and prevent an unspeakable attack?It’s a race against the clock, and against an enemy that may be far more resourceful than he ever bargained for. Pick up your copy of Wolf Trap today.
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Wolf Trap by Charles DeMaris is a great story to read. This is book number one in this great series and I really enjoyed reading it. I recommend this story to everyone who likes reading general thrillers and literary fiction in their stories.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
An Engaging Espionage Thriller with a Surprise Twist
If you are a football fan, you’ll enjoy reading this narrative that has some of the most intriguing, multi-faceted, strong, and authentic characters from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, great dialogue, and attention-grabbing locales with domestic and international maneuvers. Casey Reddick is an African American and a Heisman winning quarterback whose future career is hindered by an injury, but the plot doesn’t end there and shifts from football to Casey being drawn into high-tech job shrouded with threats, secrets and lies, deceit, betrayal, payback, chemical warfare, and murder. Then there is Jenny Grant, a brilliant British woman who creates an underground consulting firm where nothing is what it appears to be and where looks and mindsets can be very misleading. Once Casey becomes an operative, his dealings, along with the other characters, will keep you on the edge of your seat, thinking you know where the narrative is going until you get hit with lots of curve-balls that simmer into a bombshell climax, reminding us that there is no such thing as confidentiality when it comes to one’s personal information. What I enjoyed about this story is that all of the characters pull together when it comes to catching the bad guys, and there are alpha women who know how to hold their own when faced with danger.
Wolf Trap – This is my first read by this author and I was surprised the book was better than I expected. Look at this story as entertainment, like the old Willis movies when he actually worked for a living. There are interesting characters with a good mix of ethnic groups. Some of their dialog is corny: “It’s the satellite phone, probably an encrypted call”. All the characters good and bad make out of the box assumptions, which is for the story’s progress. The employees are a bit mouthy with the secrets of the company to outsiders, which is for the story’s progress.
The action scenes aren’t bad, some are good actually. There were about three that were totally unrealistic: the sinking of the ship while the plane sat next to it – ever see a ship sink, it sucks everything down with it; two motorcycles stopping a small van – yeah, right. I do like the stress placed on cursing, no vulgar language here, just the mild old fashioned cussin’ and not much of that. The book does need editing, especially with titles; that’s the President and the Director when being specific.
I would like to see the author’s work in about five years from now to see if he’s matured as a writer in this genre. While he’s not a Ludlum, he still produced a good source of entertainment. I found this book on Booksprout. 4*