Robert Ludlum's™ The Treadstone Exile

by Joshua Hood, Ron Butler (Narrator)

From the explosive world of Jason Bourne emerges a new hero.

Operation Treadstone made Jason Bourne, but he's not the only agent they trained.

After the revival of Operation Treadstone, former operative Adam Hayes has retreated to Africa, determined to escape the black-ops CIA program for good. Hayes knows just how destructive the program can be, as it turns government agents into nearly superhuman assassins. But his quiet life in Africa changes irrevocably when Hayes is attacked by extremists while flying a charitable mission in Burkina Faso. Forced to make an emergency landing, his plane is damaged and he is left in a hornet's nest of trouble.

In order to get back in the air, Hayes agrees to transport a passenger - Zoe Cabot, the daughter of a tech baron - to a small coastal city. But on arrival, Zoe is abducted. Searching for the missing girl, Hayes runs afoul of multiple enemies, including a rogue Treadstone operative, all of whom are searching for him - and for the information about a wire transfer of millions of dollars bound for the relief effort in Burkina Faso. Hayes must outrun and outgun the factions that are hunting him and prevent the theft of the much-needed millions from one of Africa's poorest nations.

Audible Audio

Published February 4, 2021

About the author

Joshua Hood graduated from the University of Memphis before joining the 82nd Airborne Division. During his five years in the Infantry, he conducted combat operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
After getting out of the Army, he returned to Memphis TN and spent nine years on SWAT.
He is now a full time writer and proud father of two in Collierville, TN.

Reviews

[Jeremy Costello · Rating 2 out of 5]

The story and characters were not fitting of anything remotely tied to the Jason Bourne series. Hayes is a boring, crass, one-note dude who belongs in a mindless 80s action movie. There were a couple of decently written action sequences--mainly the airport landing and the street ambush--but for a story that was virtually non-stop action, many of the scenes were poorly described and convoluted. And that ending was incredibly rushed and completely missed the mark; the little bit of plot twist there was made no impact because what's actually happening in this book is so inconsequential. The writer didn't care about character development at all and basically phoned in the final act. I won't read any more books by this author.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fund followup to the first book in this series and still finds a way to come back for more in the next story.