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Amy Lynn #2
Golden Angel
Third place in the Conservative Libertarian Fiction Alliance Book Of The Year contest. The saga of Amy Lynn continues in this second action packed novel by Jack July. As the story begins, Amy is coming home from Afghanistan wounded and confused about who she is and where she belongs. Back home in rural Alabama, surrounded by the love of family and friends, she needs to heal her body, bury her boyfriend, and decide what to do with her future.
But life has a plan of its own...
When eight-year-old Kristy Wilson is taken from her Missouri home, the count of missing young girls rises to twenty-three. Under orders from an angry, vengeful president, the CIA takes action. Amy is persuaded by her friend, CIA operative Tatiana Aziz to join her team as a “trainee” on a worldwide chase to find who is taking these girls and bring Kristy back home.
Follow Amy and Tatiana while you meet an eclectic group of CIA cohorts. They race the clock to find Kristy and along the way, deal some old school American justice. The author highly recommends reading the foundation book, Amy Lynn. Golden Angel plays on many characters and situations from the first book. However, Golden Angel will stand on it's own.
But life has a plan of its own...
When eight-year-old Kristy Wilson is taken from her Missouri home, the count of missing young girls rises to twenty-three. Under orders from an angry, vengeful president, the CIA takes action. Amy is persuaded by her friend, CIA operative Tatiana Aziz to join her team as a “trainee” on a worldwide chase to find who is taking these girls and bring Kristy back home.
Follow Amy and Tatiana while you meet an eclectic group of CIA cohorts. They race the clock to find Kristy and along the way, deal some old school American justice. The author highly recommends reading the foundation book, Amy Lynn. Golden Angel plays on many characters and situations from the first book. However, Golden Angel will stand on it's own.
437 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 9, 2015
About the author
Jack July
6 books50 followers Jack July is a married father of two living in N/W South Carolina. After graduating High School he enlisted in the in the US Navy where he was an aviation electronics technician on the F-14 Tomcat. Upon his discharge he earned Millwright Journeyman status while working construction in the steel mills in Gary Indiana. Looking for work he found a home for almost twenty years at Harley Davidson Motor Company in Milwaukee Wisconsin. He resigned from Harley Davidson to chase a life long dream of being a Middle School math teacher. While at Harley Davidson he earned his Bachelors degree. The professors at Cardinal Stritch University noticed his unique writing style and made positive, motivating comments. After attempting several short stories during a stint of unemployment, he decided to write his first novel.
Over his lifetime he has undertaken eclectic hobbies. Jack built and raced his own late model stock car until it interfered with his family life. He took flying lessons, found that to be boring then learned to skydive and became an instructor.
He is currently working on his third Novel. The Lady of Castle Dunn.
Over his lifetime he has undertaken eclectic hobbies. Jack built and raced his own late model stock car until it interfered with his family life. He took flying lessons, found that to be boring then learned to skydive and became an instructor.
He is currently working on his third Novel. The Lady of Castle Dunn.
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June 29, 2015
That was a fun ride. I felt like I was experiencing a whole season of Person of Interest in book form.
April 29, 2015
Amy Lynn: Golden Angel ... if the first book was To Kill a Mockingbird written by Vince Flynn, this is Brad Thor doing an episode of Mission: Impossible, where we see the entire team being assembled, complete with biographies.
This takes place shortly after the end of book one. Amy is still recovering from the battle at the climax of that. She's now close to President North (aka: "Not" Sarah Palin ... even though her Secret Service handle is "Polar Bear"), and back home with her charming and rustic family.
But it's hard to go back to the way life used to be for Amy, especially after all she's been through. She wants to simply bury her boyfriend and move on with her life, but she doesn't yet know how to do that yet.
And now, Amy's friend "T", CIA killer, wants to bring her on board a mission to hunt down a human trafficking ring that is abducting American girls...
Yes, this one went dark quickly.
We've got a Mission: Impossible team of badasses with fully-developed backstories and biographies. The reformed black militant cryptographer; the one-man insurgency; the Polish playboy who thinks he's James Bond; and the boy scout who has won the dark heart of a CIA Assassin.
The "dark" continuous when you get to the mildly incestuous twins, one is an autistic computer genius, the other is a (literal) whore (sort-of retired).
And, of course, Amy Lynn.
There is action, there is adventure, there is some neat spy stuff, and there is even the possibility of redemption.
But sometimes, redemption can only be found in death.
This takes place shortly after the end of book one. Amy is still recovering from the battle at the climax of that. She's now close to President North (aka: "Not" Sarah Palin ... even though her Secret Service handle is "Polar Bear"), and back home with her charming and rustic family.
But it's hard to go back to the way life used to be for Amy, especially after all she's been through. She wants to simply bury her boyfriend and move on with her life, but she doesn't yet know how to do that yet.
And now, Amy's friend "T", CIA killer, wants to bring her on board a mission to hunt down a human trafficking ring that is abducting American girls...
Yes, this one went dark quickly.
We've got a Mission: Impossible team of badasses with fully-developed backstories and biographies. The reformed black militant cryptographer; the one-man insurgency; the Polish playboy who thinks he's James Bond; and the boy scout who has won the dark heart of a CIA Assassin.
The "dark" continuous when you get to the mildly incestuous twins, one is an autistic computer genius, the other is a (literal) whore (sort-of retired).
And, of course, Amy Lynn.
There is action, there is adventure, there is some neat spy stuff, and there is even the possibility of redemption.
But sometimes, redemption can only be found in death.
April 27, 2015
Let me say at the outset, this is a five star book on the artistic merits. I'm holding back the fifth star purely on technical issues such as uncaught typos, and I anguished over doing even that. I've been in communication with the author and he graciously forwarded me the change sheet that has been submitted to the publisher. So, even those minor issues should be resolved shortly It's a great book. Jack's a great writer. If you fell in love with Amy Lynn Braxton in the first book, you'll fall even more deeply in love with her in this one. This book is not for everybody. If you're the literary fiction type who delights in deconstructing great literature until it's stripped of all meaning, move along. There is nothing for you here. If you're the kind of person who finds patriotism to be an embarrassing joke, or traditional values subversive to your preferred social order, this story will drive you insane. Of course, if you're one of those people, you're also a complete ass whose opinion is irrelevant anyway.
I suspect that Jack is not one of those people who insists that everything in life comes in various shades of gray. There are issues in the book that stand out in stark contrast to the alternatives and there are absolute truths, but Amy and her allies never let doing what is nice get in the way of doing what is right. The book is like real life that way. The USA is hurting for lack of books like this and needs many, many more of them. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I suspect that Jack is not one of those people who insists that everything in life comes in various shades of gray. There are issues in the book that stand out in stark contrast to the alternatives and there are absolute truths, but Amy and her allies never let doing what is nice get in the way of doing what is right. The book is like real life that way. The USA is hurting for lack of books like this and needs many, many more of them. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
April 10, 2015
I was overwhelmed by the attention my first book Amy Lynn received. To my fans and readers, thank you. Her story continues in Golden Angel. Our little redneck girl is all grown up and sets off on another adventure. It is in this book she discovers who she is, what she is and where she belongs. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Jack
Jack
September 22, 2020
I was bowled over by how good the first Amy Lynn book was for an indie novel. I think a large part of its appeal was that the author was writing about unusual characters that he knew well. It was amusing therefore to read in this second book, "Every person in your family has committed some sort of felony. Arson, organized crime, usury, multiple murders, the list goes on and on.... Many in your family tree could be considered criminally insane."
In this second book, I think the author faced a similar problem to what musicians face after their first album is a hit: it took your entire life to collect the material for your debut effort, now you have a year or two to follow it up with a second album/book. What to do when you have already mined quite a bit of the richest vein? For this author, it seems like the answer is to move the Amy Lynn novels towards being sort of a redneck James Bond series. I don’t think he would mind the comparison with Ian Fleming. There may also be some of John Ringo's Paladin of Shadows series (including accompanying soundtrack) in the mix.
Another big part of what worked so well in Amy Lynn is the coming-of-age story. But you can only write the bildungsroman for your title character once. The author may have been trying to echo this in Golden Angel by writing chapters with the backstories of some of the other characters. These are good, and a welcome inclusion, but they are not quite on the level of Amy Lynn's story. So, this book isn't quite like the first Amy Lynn, but it is still a very good action-adventure thriller.
I rate this at around 4½ stars. I did have one nit to pick - . Still, it's a lot of fun along the way, and there is a good plot twist that I didn’t see coming, and I always appreciate that.
In this second book, I think the author faced a similar problem to what musicians face after their first album is a hit: it took your entire life to collect the material for your debut effort, now you have a year or two to follow it up with a second album/book. What to do when you have already mined quite a bit of the richest vein? For this author, it seems like the answer is to move the Amy Lynn novels towards being sort of a redneck James Bond series. I don’t think he would mind the comparison with Ian Fleming. There may also be some of John Ringo's Paladin of Shadows series (including accompanying soundtrack) in the mix.
Another big part of what worked so well in Amy Lynn is the coming-of-age story. But you can only write the bildungsroman for your title character once. The author may have been trying to echo this in Golden Angel by writing chapters with the backstories of some of the other characters. These are good, and a welcome inclusion, but they are not quite on the level of Amy Lynn's story. So, this book isn't quite like the first Amy Lynn, but it is still a very good action-adventure thriller.
I rate this at around 4½ stars. I did have one nit to pick - . Still, it's a lot of fun along the way, and there is a good plot twist that I didn’t see coming, and I always appreciate that.
June 11, 2017
After the first book I am a little disappointed with this one. Its not a bad thriller but it doesn’t hold your attention like the original ‘Amy Lynn’.
The focus in the first book was Amy, the story revolved around her and it was her that held my interest. This book is a more typical thriller where the plot is meant to keep you interested and the action is distributed between numerous characters. This is OK but it was Amy that made the first book stand out, without her as the main focus this is an ordinary thriller with some slightly worrying jingoistic overtones.
Another problem for me are the number of background stories, in the first book the side stories gave insight into the backgrounds of some of the main characters. These were interesting and added to the whole story, in this book there are more of these background stories but they are for minor characters, who, in many cases are then killed a few chapters later. These don’t add to the story, in fact they become irritating especially when you realise you have invested time in a story that has no bearing on the rest of the book.
If I hadn’t read this book straight after the first one, I may have been less critical but comparing it to ‘Amy Lynn’ I think 3.5 stars would be a fair rating.
The focus in the first book was Amy, the story revolved around her and it was her that held my interest. This book is a more typical thriller where the plot is meant to keep you interested and the action is distributed between numerous characters. This is OK but it was Amy that made the first book stand out, without her as the main focus this is an ordinary thriller with some slightly worrying jingoistic overtones.
Another problem for me are the number of background stories, in the first book the side stories gave insight into the backgrounds of some of the main characters. These were interesting and added to the whole story, in this book there are more of these background stories but they are for minor characters, who, in many cases are then killed a few chapters later. These don’t add to the story, in fact they become irritating especially when you realise you have invested time in a story that has no bearing on the rest of the book.
If I hadn’t read this book straight after the first one, I may have been less critical but comparing it to ‘Amy Lynn’ I think 3.5 stars would be a fair rating.
April 22, 2015
Just as great as the first book, Amy Lynn: Golden Angel continues where Amy Lynn leaves off. Jack July takes you along with Amy as she finds her place after a traumatic experience in Afghanistan. Ultimately, he takes you along as Amy follows her heart and does what needs to be done for the sake of American little girls being taken by a human trafficking ring.
Although much brutality is woven into the story, it is offered as the raw and ugly truth in the darkness of our society. And because Amy Lynn has faced one of the most brutal events in her life that one could comprehend, her total being is driven to deliver justice to those who would destroy all that is innocent and precious.
The book keeps you emotionally interested in every character, clearly showing the importance of every single one of them to the mission of saving a little girl and putting an end to a disgusting evil that poses a threat to (in this case) prepubescent American girls. The truth is that I fell in love with Amy Lynn Braxton during the first book, seeing her courage and ability to turn serious pain into an ability to help keep evil at bay. This book delivers that all over again.
Although much brutality is woven into the story, it is offered as the raw and ugly truth in the darkness of our society. And because Amy Lynn has faced one of the most brutal events in her life that one could comprehend, her total being is driven to deliver justice to those who would destroy all that is innocent and precious.
The book keeps you emotionally interested in every character, clearly showing the importance of every single one of them to the mission of saving a little girl and putting an end to a disgusting evil that poses a threat to (in this case) prepubescent American girls. The truth is that I fell in love with Amy Lynn Braxton during the first book, seeing her courage and ability to turn serious pain into an ability to help keep evil at bay. This book delivers that all over again.
April 21, 2015
After reading Amy Lynn, Jack July's first book, I could hardly wait for his next. Well here it is and I'm not disappointed. You can read this novel without reading the first one, but why would you want to. If you read the first one you will have even more insight into Amy Lynn's life, family, friends, and enemies. Besides, it's a great book too. Don't miss either one. I truly believe that the story of Amy Lynn would make a great movie. I'm not going to write a condensed version of this book but I will tell you that I enjoyed the read with all its twists and turns and the author still has a talent for storytelling and introducing you to his characters so that you know them almost personally. Great job Jack July..keep up the good work. And for all readers.....you won't be sorry.
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December 25, 20155 stars
I waited so long for this book to come out and it didnt disappoint me. There is still a lot going on in Amy's life and it is only going to become more complex as she is being recruited by another agency. There was a lot going on that it kept me enthralled. Another great job done.
I waited so long for this book to come out and it didnt disappoint me. There is still a lot going on in Amy's life and it is only going to become more complex as she is being recruited by another agency. There was a lot going on that it kept me enthralled. Another great job done.
May 29, 2018
Excellent follow up to the first Amy Lynn
January 12, 2017
This book is the second in a series. it is a story about a Good Southern Christian young lady, who by no fault of her own, becomes a completely different person while maintaining most if not all of her
upbringing.
This book really takes off form where the first one leaves off.
These books are self published by an upcoming author.
I really recommend these books. once you start reading, you won't be able to put it down as you will want to see what happens next.
upbringing.
This book really takes off form where the first one leaves off.
These books are self published by an upcoming author.
I really recommend these books. once you start reading, you won't be able to put it down as you will want to see what happens next.
March 21, 2020
4 stars. Good sequel
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