The Next Level

by Bob Ham

In this release of his first new novel in more than a decade, Bob Ham has truly risen to The Next Level. This top-selling adventure writer of the late 80s and 90s has created a compelling story as fresh as tomorrow’s headline news and a style on par with the likes of other masters of suspenseful thrillers such as Clive Cussler and Vince Flynn. On a quiet Sunday morning, extremist radical terrorists have attacked the United States again. Sleeper agents, on our soil for years, are now fully awakened and on a mission of vengeful jihad. This time, the stakes are lethally high with dirty bombs and real nuclear weapons loose inside the country. When the attacks occur, high-level government officials are practically neutralized. The government is overwhelmed and paralyzed – virtually unable to respond - proving it is entirely ineffective at dealing with the onslaught of madness in such repetitive succession. Traditional methods of dealing with chaos fail as fast as the damage piles up, and the death toll of innocents rises.While America appears doomed to catastrophic government collapse and even nuclear madness, a latent group of American Patriots isn’t about to let that happen if they can help it. Their most trusted resolutionist, rogue intelligence agent Jake Storme, and two of his associates, college professor and covert agent Delia Falcon and former Special Ops master Zack Mason, are in a race to salvage a critically wounded nation from the evil grip of insanity. With a powerful and unforgettable vengeance, these three specialists don’t take no for an answer when the life of the country is on the line. They command respect and have a very unique way of getting to the whole truth and nothing but the truth with deliberate expediency.The Patriots travel a pathway laden with deadly corruption, both in and out of government. The self-serving bureaucrats don’t care who they have to kill to get what they want or what they have to do to accomplish their evil intents…their only interests are profit and personal benefit. The hallowed halls of government are irreparably shattered and the business world rocked to its corporate foundation with Storme and his team’s discoveries. The crooked powers that be tremble at the thought of Jake Storme and his patriotic collection agency coming after them with determined resolution, knowing that the Patriots are more than capable of totally destroying them.A page-turner you won’t want to put down, this gripping political thriller will grab you and not turn you loose through the twists and turns of intense suspense in the pursuit of bloodthirsty maniac terrorists and greed-fed corruption at the highest levels.

594 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 24, 2012