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Aristotle Project #1
Omicron
Donovan Faine has experienced major changes before. The railway crossing death of his father in Chepstow, Wales, when Donovan was a boy. His move with his mother to America, close on the heels of that loss. The death of his cousin shortly afterward. An occupation filled with secrets, and the death of his friend Adrian Traen in the course of that life. The woman he found and lost.
But Donovan's about to experience another change, because he's coming out of retirement. When Alisa Wolfe turns up on his doorstep in Bejorca, Spain, she comes without apologies for the way her relationship with Donovan ended, and she's not asking to return to that relationship. She wants something else, instead.
She wants his help.
In the once-upon-a-time world they functioned in, Donovan and Alisa were intelligence agents from the National Security Agency's Aristotle Project. It was a program of sleepers, twenty-four highly-trained men and women put in place in the Seventies and Eighties, with an activation role as foreign communication, interception, and investigation agents in case of widespread electronic breakdown. But that truly was once upon a time.
Donovan, Alisa, and the others from Aristotle are needed now for another reason – forty percent of American intelligence agents in the field have been compromised, and the pervasiveness and depth of the actions against those personnel suggest more are threatened.
Only Aristotle, an unremembered program from an unremembered time, is pure enough to be unknown. Only Aristotle is pure enough to be safe.
The agents are called up by "Southern Comfort" Jim Carness, a president who seems blissfully uninformed, and by his Director of National Intelligence Palmer Kohl, a man with hidden insecurities that don't stop him from rashly believing he can control the Executive. With the begrudging and disbelieving assistance of Deputy CIA Director Gwen McAllen, the Aristotle agents are sent to find out who's behind the compromises.
Their journey takes them to the old contacts and the old places, as they scramble against time to find out who's responsible, in a fight that pits them against adversaries from the past and the present, and from abroad and at home.
Reinken is also the author of Glass House and of Judgment Day, which Publishers Weekly described as "a nearly seamless medical/legal chiller that’s one slick piece of work."
The ebook edition of Omicron includes the first chapter of The Guardian's Deceit, which is coming soon in ebook.
But Donovan's about to experience another change, because he's coming out of retirement. When Alisa Wolfe turns up on his doorstep in Bejorca, Spain, she comes without apologies for the way her relationship with Donovan ended, and she's not asking to return to that relationship. She wants something else, instead.
She wants his help.
In the once-upon-a-time world they functioned in, Donovan and Alisa were intelligence agents from the National Security Agency's Aristotle Project. It was a program of sleepers, twenty-four highly-trained men and women put in place in the Seventies and Eighties, with an activation role as foreign communication, interception, and investigation agents in case of widespread electronic breakdown. But that truly was once upon a time.
Donovan, Alisa, and the others from Aristotle are needed now for another reason – forty percent of American intelligence agents in the field have been compromised, and the pervasiveness and depth of the actions against those personnel suggest more are threatened.
Only Aristotle, an unremembered program from an unremembered time, is pure enough to be unknown. Only Aristotle is pure enough to be safe.
The agents are called up by "Southern Comfort" Jim Carness, a president who seems blissfully uninformed, and by his Director of National Intelligence Palmer Kohl, a man with hidden insecurities that don't stop him from rashly believing he can control the Executive. With the begrudging and disbelieving assistance of Deputy CIA Director Gwen McAllen, the Aristotle agents are sent to find out who's behind the compromises.
Their journey takes them to the old contacts and the old places, as they scramble against time to find out who's responsible, in a fight that pits them against adversaries from the past and the present, and from abroad and at home.
Reinken is also the author of Glass House and of Judgment Day, which Publishers Weekly described as "a nearly seamless medical/legal chiller that’s one slick piece of work."
The ebook edition of Omicron includes the first chapter of The Guardian's Deceit, which is coming soon in ebook.
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October 2, 2011
This was an enjoyable thriller, whose action criscrossed the globe from its first pages. Reinken's style is very distinctive, including detailed descriptions of locations and more-or-less-relevant facts, along with a fast-changing cast of characters, many of whom are introduced only to be brutally disposed of or - in a manner common enough in real life, but which I've seldom seen in fiction - just in time to play a major role in changing the course of the drama. Throughout this, a small number of more central characters pick their way. In 'Omicron' the eponymous character is a sleeper agent, suddenly (and reluctantly) activated to step in when many of his colleagues are compromised and killed. This is advertised as 'Aristotle Project #1' so I'll be interested to see if later books cover some of the other agents.
October 5, 2011
If you like suspence thrillers like Tom Clancy, Daniel Silva, Brad Thor, and Vince Flynn then you do not want to miss this read. The author takes you into the White House and the other government agencies that feed off themselves while they try to present that they are all on the same team. The author has done an execellent job of putting business greed ahead of religious fanatism, what a switch.
The reader will find the story presentation fun and and you can't wait to get back to what has happened. The heros you find here will not be super heros but they will be trained patriots.
DON'T MISS THIS READ !!!!!
The reader will find the story presentation fun and and you can't wait to get back to what has happened. The heros you find here will not be super heros but they will be trained patriots.
DON'T MISS THIS READ !!!!!
December 14, 2012
Action packed plot gripped my attention from the first chapter. I found Reinken's style easy to read and was drawn into the story, cheering for Donovan and Alisa right up the end. Can't wait to start my next Reinken read.
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