Horrible things have happened to Brian Yi, but now it's time for him to get some pay back.
Armed with a "Death Warrant" he heads back home with his friend, IPB agent Daryl Lancaster, to kill some very bad police officers that thought they were above the law.
But everything isn't as it seems in his home town and the harder he looks at his old life, the more he realizes that things have been being controlled for a very long time. Longer than he's been alive.
Now he has to survive meeting with his past, and if he can't the future might not exist at all.
This is book four in the Infected series Book one: Proxy Book two: Gabriel Book three: Cast Iron Get them all now, because soon nothing will ever be the same again.
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In chatting with Dale over the past few weeks, it was decided that he was interested in blogging to you, his readers. The blog he had within the main site was not going to be a viable solution and there were thoughts of just creating a Forum where only he could post and everyone else could reply. This MOD is a nice meeting of the two for what will hopefully be a highly successful blog!
Hoping this first (and only) post by me will kick off a nice method of interaction with Dale's readers!
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p.s. - Also going to try and get the feed that comes with this to feed into Amazon and Goodreads. Good luck to one and all!! ]]>
Great addition to the series, we return to 'Proxy' POV again, seeing how the elements in the war against Alpha squad proceed. Brian learns more about the attacks he suffered at book one, and some long secrets involving him in quite weird ways wich will give him some new ideas to adapt to. Some relationships reconciliations are in order and as always sad lost are included. At the very least there is a pawn in their confrontation that gets taken out of the equation.
Worst book in the series yet, jumps about and greatest sin of all uses time travel as a device. Series seems to have lost it's way. Wee read the next to see if it finds it again (and because I got the 6 book deal!) Time travel and aliens - definitely not recommended.
Brian Yi appears again! This time with a slightly odd event at the end that's seriously, yes, odd. Especially because we've had nearly no foreshadowing again this time, making it come out of nowwhere. I don't want to spoiler it, but let's just say it's sci-fi like this time. Sort of.
After reading book 3 with Marcia I realised that I'm not that fond of reading Brian's POV. He's ruled by his first mode, self-sacrifice, fully aware of it, and doesn't fight it at all. He "adapts" his mode for his goals, and while that makes him more powerful, it makes him more boring as a person. Denis fought against his first mode, greed, and Marcia did, as well. Their personalities shined through. With Brian, everything is shadowed by his first mode. A pity really, as he has an interesting personality as well. Especially because he does continue growing as a character.
In this book, the main focus is on Brian's trauma & trouble with the police. While his reactions to the guys always make him seem over-the-top and insane, his argumentations are actually still understandable, even if he can only see his one side of things. He doesn't even try to see the perspectives of his team mates, instead always trying to make himself the victim. That gets old fast. Also gets annoying when police comes again and again and he tries to kill them all again and again, despite having to realise that it's an obvious set-up to make him seem evil. (Actually, most of that part was in book 3 with Marcia I believe, but it's also used in this one, so there you go.)
Brian actually grows though as a character. He notices when something seems wrong and doesn't start killing immediately. No, he starts an investigation. I just hope that next time the police does something stupid, he won't try to kill them all again... no promises on that one though.
The plot was for the most part solid - except that seriously odd part at the end, which just made me go, whot? - and the story was interesting. So yes, recommended! Be aware of more dumb actions of Brian though! Seriously, his weakness isn't his love for his group, it's the police.