Black Sun Rising

Order of the Black Sun #3

by Preston W. Child

After Sam Cleave’s perilous experience on the North Sea oil rig, Deep Sea One, he endevours to take life a little slower and keep to his mundane journalism job at the local newspaper. However, an unforeseen turn of events urges Sam to accept a freelance writing job offered by none other than Jefferson Daniels, the world renowned explorer with whom he shared their first terrifying expedition to Antarctica in search of Ice Station Wolfenstein a year or two before. Jefferson Daniels employs him to write a book on the new venture followed by the filthy rich and scandalously famous – a new worldwide trend of soul-searching vision quests hosted by an organization called FireStorm, which pursues to unite all people in a spiritual cohesion. In the company of Daniels and a select few global plutocrats, Cleave is suddenly immersed into a world of social manipulation, starting with a lavish convention in Las Vegas, where they encounter the charismatic leader of FireStorm, Sara Stromer. Soon Sam discovers that Dave Purdue and Nina Gould are also involved in this exclusive enterprise and, in the Arizona desert they are all about to discover just how deep FireStorm intends to take their initiates. When all connections to the outside world are severed and personal belongings become redundant, Sam and Nina begin to doubt the good intentions of FireStorm and its new anti-privacy software soon to be distributed worldwide. Before long their reluctance to conform becomes a gesture of threat and they soon find themselves in a desperate struggle for freedom where anyone, anywhere could be in league with FireStorm. Will they be able to get away from a corporation that has its powerful tentacles in every crevice of society and knows everything about everyone? As the time ticks away to the launch of FireStorm’s worldwide software activation, Sam, Nina and Purdue are racing to avert it. Will this be the Death of Privacy or will the worldwide domination of personal information be successfully thwarted? Black Sun Rising leads the reader on a roller-coaster ride in search of a legend. Packed with breathtaking suspense and nerve-shredding action, Black Sun Rising is a thrilling read for all fans of action, suspense, and intrigue.

Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Action, Audiobook, Fiction

262 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 15, 2014

About the author

Still learning about writing and marketing books. When I'm not writing, I'm usually checking out single malts at The Black Cat, Rose St, Edinburgh. Join me :-)

Reviews

[Jane Withers · Rating 3 out of 5]

The thing about this story is that you can actually see it happens . Also as usual this is the weirdest group of characters ever . Having said that I’ll continue to read the entire series because I can’t help myself :-))

[Kathryn Dean · Rating 5 out of 5]

The gang is back again, This time they are in the midwest and south western desert of USA. Sam Cleve was invited to come to write a biograghy of a friend. A friend that was in the Nazi Ice Station a couple years ago. This time Steve, Nina, and Sam as to deal with an occult who beliefs are set in the Ancient Native American beliefs, but they are also something different about them. Can these three find it out and escape alive before the leaders find out what they are up to?

[Diane · Rating 4 out of 5]

RECALL ON MIND GAMES

Does anyone recall Jim Jones, the leader of the cult that had all his followers drinking poisoned cool aid? This book painfully reminded me of that incident, along with other cults that play mind games on people . This took me a bit more to get into, stay with, and finish but I couldn’t abandon the story until I completed it. Unlike the previous stories, this had a few minor holes in it…still proved interesting, though.

[Fdelrio · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kinda boring. Not a lot of action or adventure till the very end. I really don’t understand some actions of the characters, like Nina sleeping with… (no spoiler) and again Sam with the same problems, it’s like all over again, there is no development. I will try this series one more time, because there are more than 50 books, so people must like it, and maybe, just maybe my reading is the issue…..to be continue

[Linda Shelton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

This series is just amazing, each book is a new and dynamic story. I hate to say this, but it was not as good as the others, but it was still very, very good. I finished it in two days. I already read three of the later books and decided to start from the beginning of the series.

[Alan T · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sam, Nina,

Sam and Nina go to the desert southwestern US to attend a vision quest. The sponsoring group turns out to be the so-called Black Sun, a neo-natzi group aiming for world domination.

Characterization is good, with plotting fair to good. Improbable eliments crop up in the plots.

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

This read was completely different. It may be too realistic for anyone in the know about world finances.For me, I thought it was not the same fast-paced hard hitting that I have gotten used to from Mr. Child.

[frank · Rating 5 out of 5]

Be careful, this series becomes addictive

Three down and I am not sure how many there are to go, but the adventures of Sam and Nina will keep me coming back for more. Reading out of sequence is a bad idea for this series because you would be completely lost.

[Thom · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was definitely the best of the series so far, and does some things that I really like, but it takes way too long to get into the action, which makes the actual action feel very rushed, and the ending is abrupt. Not terrible, though, and it makes me eager to see where else the series will go.

[kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read

Characters are brought to life with action hiding around every corner...I would recommend this writer to anyone that I know...

[Lisa]

DNF

[Michael Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok story

I'm enjoying reading this series of books. This one was not my favorite. It was kind of weird and bizarre but made some good points.

[William C McEachern Sr · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book is spellbinding

Every twist and turn kept me reading in the edge of seat. Masterful suspense did not want to put the book down.

[Michael Wood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adventure as Heroes Save Everyone from Digital Apocalypse

RECOMMENDED ENJOYABLE ESCAPIST READ!
Heroes Sam, Nina, and Dave uncover a plan to create a digital Apocalypse that would rob everyone, everywhere of any privacy. Naturally, they encounter unknown vicious hazards, enemies, situations and overcome them all, although the body-count is high, and the damages extensive.

Once again, there are hints of action by the Third Reich's surviving Mystical Order; the Black Sun. Ironically (perhaps...), the "FireStorm " group planning all the mayhem uses the Black Sun ideogram.

Is this a coincidence? The simple fact that this novel is number three in the "Black Sun " series would seem to indicate no...

This is a fun read, with lots of action. Luckily for the heroes, the location is the Nevada desert instead of the frozen South Pole or the frigid North Sea. Now, they have something different to complain about in book four...

[Juliana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining

Certainly different than the first two in the series, not that it is a bad thing. I still haven't figured out what Purdue's motives are as he moves from good guy to bad guy and back again. One thing is certain, Purdue is always looking out for himself. New villains are introduced and I bet we haven't seen the last of them. All in all not a bad story. One that moves quickly and keeps the reader entertained.

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

The is was a decent book in the series although it only references events in the past books, the same characters, and the techno-cult uses the Black Sun symbol which is actually older than the Nazi connotations that have made it a hated symbol. Other than those two plot devices this book has next to nothing to do with the other books in the series.

[Hubert · Rating 4 out of 5]

The plot was entertaining. I listen to all these on audiobooks as I drive to work. My complaint would be the narrator for this one compared to the others sounded more robotic and drastically changed the characters. Not world class literature but entertaining enough.

[Lyn Dalton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Black Sun Rising.


The third book in the trilogy was just as exciting as the first two. It was quite an adventure. I hope to read more about Sam, Nina and Dave in the future.

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really greAt story line

All I can say is where is book 4. Sam, Nina and Purdue still have another adventure in them. To God of a series to end.