Publisher: Simon
and Schuster
Published: November 8, 2012
ISBN: 978-0857204752
Genre: Speculative
Fiction
Format: Ebook
Obtained via: Publisher via Edelweiss
Not exactly their dream job, bounty hunters Nathan Warner and
Nicola Lopez do their best to get by. At
times they find themselves skirting the law, but they do get their man. And sometimes someone gets them.
Dean Jarvis comes from the shadow world of the Defense
Intelligence Agency. Operating on a
need-to-know basis Jarvis has a job that experience and a mysterious message
from a wanted man have assured him only Nathan and Lopez can solve. After all, when the killer himself leaves
cryptic messages for Nathan, who else would you call? Adding to the mix is the disappearance of a
plane full of returning scientists – from the Bermuda Triangle. The race is on to find the killer before they
run out of time.
I saw the blurb for Dean Crawford’s Apocalypse which included
two subjects I can’t resist – time travel and the Bermuda Triangle, I had to
read it. Crawford did not
disappoint. It’s not exactly a time
travel—in fact Nathan and Lopez do not engage in any time travel at all. But they are caught in a web where the past
and the future collide—and not necessarily in the present. That’s not as confusing as it may sound. In a well-developed story, full of non-stop
action, duo chase a would be killer using knowledge gleaned from Einstein and
company’s experiments from WWII. There
were a few “Lifetime” movie moments I could have done without and I didn’t care
for the “cliffhanger” at the very end, but the overall read was a page
turner.
APOCALYPSE is apparently the third book in Crawford’s
series. I’m normally a sticker for reading
an entire series in order just so I have the full backstory on the characters
as well as enjoying seeing how the author develops them over time. In this case, there was just enough back
story to catch a reader up on the characters, but overall the book is a
complete in itself standalone—even with the cheesy “cliff hanger” at the
end. (Those dangling parts of a new
story leave me feeling like the author is trying to lure you into buying
another book by not finishing the original story and I don’t much care for it.) I will be going back to read the first two in
this series—as well as checking out a few of Crawford’s other reads simply
because I really enjoyed this one.
You do not have to be a fan of speculative fiction or “other”
normal subjects to enjoy this one. All you
need is to be read for some non-stop action and some breath holding moments
while Nathan and Lopez get themselves out of some touchy situations.
This is an objective review and not an endorsement of
this book.
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