Russell Hamilton's first thriller, Agent of Influence, received high praise from across the spectrum.
“Hamilton delivers a taut political thriller that moves with speed and agility. A fast-paced thriller with an imaginative premise.” Kirkus Indie Reviews
"Agent of Influence is an action-packed mystery/thriller that is certain to entertain." City Book Reviews
"This is one roller coaster ride readers won't want to get off." Foreword Clarion Reviews
Now CIA officer Anna Starks returns in One Single Warrior,
In Agent of Influence, Anna Starks saved the U.S. from a massive terrorist attack at the hands of a secretive group known as the Brotherhood of the Caliphate. Now Jamal Mahmoud, the sole survivor of that organization and long-term mole inside the U.S. government has escaped the country. But he has no plans to slink quietly into the night.
As Anna hunts for clues to Jamal’s whereabouts in his organization’s former base of operations in Las Vegas and through his past in the Special Forces she encounters Dalton Xavier, a former member of Jamal’s Seal team, and makes a rash decision she quickly regrets. When ambassadors start turning up dead in the normally tranquil island chain of the Caribbean Jamal emerges as the prime suspect and Anna is dispatched to investigate.
She follows the trail above and below the waters of the Caribbean until she learns the killing spree is not the crazed work of a suicidal terrorist, but a carefully choreographed dance that is designed to end with both her and her country’s humiliation. Jamal has chosen a partner for his final gambit, and as the trap closes Anna discovers that partner is someone she is all too familiar with.
The War on Terror is about to get personal.
For more information about Russell and his novels you can check out his website at www.agentofinfluence.org. One Single Warrior is Russell's second full length thriller and is the sequel to Agent of Influence.
A native of Louisville, KY, Russell spent seven years researching and writing Agent of Influence in his spare time. A fast-paced thriller, the novel grew out of his travels as well as his obsession with history. A voracious reader, he devours as many history books as possible. On the fiction side his biggest influences are Tom Clancy, Ian Fleming, Vince Flynn, James Clavell, Daniel Silva, Robert Ludlum, and Ernest Hemingway. When he really has some free time on his hands he loves to go scuba diving and skiing. For more information about Russell or Agent of Influence check out www.agentofinfluence.org and find out why Bookreview.com says, "Hamilton has written as tightly plotted an international spy story as you are going to find in the genre." Agent of Influence was also one of 2000 novels/manuscripts considered for the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. For a sample of Russell's writing and some background information on Agent of Influence's main hero; CIA agent Anna Starks, check out The Wet Job, a collection of short stories on kindle for only 1.49.
So many grammar, punctuation (commas have rules, and can make things understandable or unintelligible), wrong words, etc took a lot of the enjoyment away for me. Story is just ok