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The Iron Eagle #8
Cleansing
"Oh dear God! What have they done?" Back Cover: In a remote outcropping in the Santa Monica Mountains, four-month-old Emily Swan is found murdered. FBI Special Agent John Swenson and LA County Sheriff Jim O'Brian have been called to investigate her murder. As their work continues, they discover that a small religious sect, founded decades earlier by an infamous serial killer, seems to have reappeared in the Los Angeles area. Even though he has been imprisoned for nearly four decades, his influence has gained a following with a group apparently attempting to fulfill a second coming according to Christian mythology. As Swenson and O'Brian sort through each case, a frightening secret is uncovered ... one only the Iron Eagle can expose. Inside Flap: Emily Swan has been abducted from her crib and murdered in the Santa Monica Mountains. On a rock outcropping near her remains, the words of Psalm 29 are etched with great care into the outside wall of a makeshift altar - the words, themselves, a sign that this ritualistic murder is rooted in something evil. As Sheriff Jim O'Brian and FBI Special Agent John Swenson search for the killer, they realize this new murder has a connection to the past - a connection to a serial killer. From crime scene to crime scene, O'Brian and Swenson discover biblical passages, and the Iron Eagle works to dissect the information gleaned. What is uncovered is a plot so diabolical that even the Eagle feels powerless to stop it.
196 pages, Hardcover
Published March 5, 2016
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About the author
Roy A. Teel Jr.
40 books58 followersOn May 11, 1995, at 30, Roy's life was irrevocably changed. After walking into the hospital, he was admitted and later received a sobering and life changing diagnosis - Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. His doctors gave him two years to live, and he left the hospital in a wheelchair. Roy, not one for giving up, and having a, then, three-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son, went immediately into human subjects research at UCLA and spent 12 years (1995-2007) as a human research subject. His experience gave him a unique look behind the scenes of medicine and the processes that are required to get drugs through the research chain, from the animal research phase to using those drugs in humans in clinical trials, and, if successful, on to the FDA for approval. Roy participated in four major experimental drug trials, and one of those ended up giving him thyroid cancer, which was diagnosed in January 2001.
Life as a Survivor
Roy is a proud cancer survivor and has refused to let MS define his life. His dedication to his work and to human subject research both inspired his writing as well as showed the real human condition when laid bare. As an author, Roy A. Teel Jr. is very diverse, and his works include both fiction and nonfiction. He earned his bachelor's degree in Ministerial Studies through Berean University of the Assemblies of God then went on to earn doctorates of Divinity and Biblical Studies through ULC Ministries.
Nonfiction
Roy's first nonfiction book, The Way, The Truth, and The Lies: How the Gospels Mislead Christians about Jesus' True Message, was published in 2005 and is taught in both religious and secular universities in the U.S. and abroad. Against The Grain: The American Mega-Church and its Culture of Control was published in 2008. This second book reveals the unflattering true faces of the "Goliaths of God" and shows religion and churches for what they really are - businesses - very, very lucrative and influential businesses involved in many facets of American society.
Short Fiction
In 2008, Roy published a collection of short stories titled, Light of Darkness: Dialogues in Death. These collected stories were inspired by both his difficult and troubled childhood as well as his years in clinical trials. He met and knew many people, many whom lost the battle due to natural causes, or in some cases, by their own hand, that he felt compelled to fictionalize and share their stories.
Novel-length Fiction
In 2013, Roy released his first novel, And God Laughed, a neoplatonic dialogue between one man and God. Although now a secular humanist, Roy believes in God but rejects all religions as man's folly and wrote a fictional narrative about a relationship with God outside of religion.
Current Project
In 2014, Roy began publishing his latest and largest project - a 40-novel geographically-centered hard boiled, mystery, suspense, thriller crime series: "The Iron Eagle Series." The main character, a former Marine Corps Black Operative turned rogue FBI agent, hunts killers in Los Angeles. Each novel addresses different subjects, and while fiction, all titles deal with real world subject matter. "The Iron Eagle Series" is not about things that can't hurt you. What happens in these novels can happen to any one of us if we let our guard down and/or are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Life as an Author
After battling Multiple Sclerosis for nearly 16 years, Roy began devoting his energies and passions to the full-time art of storytelling. Although he is no longer able to work in a high stress executive environment, his life has taken on a new mission: to inform and entertain. His disability has brought with it an unforeseen blessing. He can finally take medications to alleviate some of the pain from his MS and focus on the pleasures of character creation and the joys of putting words to paper.
Life as a Survivor
Roy is a proud cancer survivor and has refused to let MS define his life. His dedication to his work and to human subject research both inspired his writing as well as showed the real human condition when laid bare. As an author, Roy A. Teel Jr. is very diverse, and his works include both fiction and nonfiction. He earned his bachelor's degree in Ministerial Studies through Berean University of the Assemblies of God then went on to earn doctorates of Divinity and Biblical Studies through ULC Ministries.
Nonfiction
Roy's first nonfiction book, The Way, The Truth, and The Lies: How the Gospels Mislead Christians about Jesus' True Message, was published in 2005 and is taught in both religious and secular universities in the U.S. and abroad. Against The Grain: The American Mega-Church and its Culture of Control was published in 2008. This second book reveals the unflattering true faces of the "Goliaths of God" and shows religion and churches for what they really are - businesses - very, very lucrative and influential businesses involved in many facets of American society.
Short Fiction
In 2008, Roy published a collection of short stories titled, Light of Darkness: Dialogues in Death. These collected stories were inspired by both his difficult and troubled childhood as well as his years in clinical trials. He met and knew many people, many whom lost the battle due to natural causes, or in some cases, by their own hand, that he felt compelled to fictionalize and share their stories.
Novel-length Fiction
In 2013, Roy released his first novel, And God Laughed, a neoplatonic dialogue between one man and God. Although now a secular humanist, Roy believes in God but rejects all religions as man's folly and wrote a fictional narrative about a relationship with God outside of religion.
Current Project
In 2014, Roy began publishing his latest and largest project - a 40-novel geographically-centered hard boiled, mystery, suspense, thriller crime series: "The Iron Eagle Series." The main character, a former Marine Corps Black Operative turned rogue FBI agent, hunts killers in Los Angeles. Each novel addresses different subjects, and while fiction, all titles deal with real world subject matter. "The Iron Eagle Series" is not about things that can't hurt you. What happens in these novels can happen to any one of us if we let our guard down and/or are in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Life as an Author
After battling Multiple Sclerosis for nearly 16 years, Roy began devoting his energies and passions to the full-time art of storytelling. Although he is no longer able to work in a high stress executive environment, his life has taken on a new mission: to inform and entertain. His disability has brought with it an unforeseen blessing. He can finally take medications to alleviate some of the pain from his MS and focus on the pleasures of character creation and the joys of putting words to paper.
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February 27, 2016
Note: You can read my other reviews here:
Rise of the Iron Eagle
Evil and the Details
Operation Red Alert
A Model For Murder
A Devil's Chair
I have received these books as ARCs from the author in exchange for a fair and honest review.
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If you've been hanging around my personal blog or here on my Goodreads pages, you know I have been an avid reader of Teel (albeit I am very behind on my reviews) since the very first book was released almost two years ago in May of 2014. Naturally, I was excited to receive and ARC of Book 8: Cleansing and tore into it just minutes after opening the package. I know it sounds repetitious to say that these books are not for the faint of heart but I do feel that I must remind fans of my reviews that no matter how wonderful a book is to me, it may not be just anyone's cup of tea. If you're a fan of L. Frank Baum's magical land of Oz and prefers to read chick lit with happy endings, this book series is absolutely not for you. However, if you liked the show Dexter, tore apart the Hannibal series by Thomas Harris and then moved into JD Robb's In Death series, prepare to have your mind blow.
Continuing to grow and develop characters I have loved since Rise, Tell somehow manages to pull out an all new terror that was deeply difficult for me to read due to the nature of his new killer/s. Being a mother it is always hard to read about the deaths of children but with Teel's way of making his readers feel as though they are walking along the same roads and seeing the same views as FBI agent John Swenson and his band of adept and skilled friends/partners/officers of the law.
Now anyone who knows me can tell you that I like to read a book and then tear it to shreds. It's sort of my "thing" as a reviewer. I don't hand out the 5 star ratings with ease and I have read so many books that it takes a lot to impress me. Working through The Iron Eagle series Book 8 I realized that this is the longest any author has managed to continue getting 5 stars from me and that has managed to continue to surprise me with every twist and turn. I must also thank Mr. Teel for providing me with new nightmares (a compliment to anyone in the horror/thriller/psychological mind fuck writing genre). Where he keeps getting his ideas I may never know.
I must impress here that although I am talking this book up, you really should start the series with Book 1: Rise of the Iron Eagle. Each book does have it's own stand alone plot but if you wish to understand the who's who and follow the (excellent) character development, you'll want to go with the start of it all.
Don't read this alone in the dark and don't read any of Teel's books before, during or after watching the news. Reader beware, you're about to be sucked into one of the wildest rides of your life!
Rise of the Iron Eagle
Evil and the Details
Operation Red Alert
A Model For Murder
A Devil's Chair
I have received these books as ARCs from the author in exchange for a fair and honest review.
* * *
If you've been hanging around my personal blog or here on my Goodreads pages, you know I have been an avid reader of Teel (albeit I am very behind on my reviews) since the very first book was released almost two years ago in May of 2014. Naturally, I was excited to receive and ARC of Book 8: Cleansing and tore into it just minutes after opening the package. I know it sounds repetitious to say that these books are not for the faint of heart but I do feel that I must remind fans of my reviews that no matter how wonderful a book is to me, it may not be just anyone's cup of tea. If you're a fan of L. Frank Baum's magical land of Oz and prefers to read chick lit with happy endings, this book series is absolutely not for you. However, if you liked the show Dexter, tore apart the Hannibal series by Thomas Harris and then moved into JD Robb's In Death series, prepare to have your mind blow.
Continuing to grow and develop characters I have loved since Rise, Tell somehow manages to pull out an all new terror that was deeply difficult for me to read due to the nature of his new killer/s. Being a mother it is always hard to read about the deaths of children but with Teel's way of making his readers feel as though they are walking along the same roads and seeing the same views as FBI agent John Swenson and his band of adept and skilled friends/partners/officers of the law.
Now anyone who knows me can tell you that I like to read a book and then tear it to shreds. It's sort of my "thing" as a reviewer. I don't hand out the 5 star ratings with ease and I have read so many books that it takes a lot to impress me. Working through The Iron Eagle series Book 8 I realized that this is the longest any author has managed to continue getting 5 stars from me and that has managed to continue to surprise me with every twist and turn. I must also thank Mr. Teel for providing me with new nightmares (a compliment to anyone in the horror/thriller/psychological mind fuck writing genre). Where he keeps getting his ideas I may never know.
I must impress here that although I am talking this book up, you really should start the series with Book 1: Rise of the Iron Eagle. Each book does have it's own stand alone plot but if you wish to understand the who's who and follow the (excellent) character development, you'll want to go with the start of it all.
Don't read this alone in the dark and don't read any of Teel's books before, during or after watching the news. Reader beware, you're about to be sucked into one of the wildest rides of your life!
March 7, 2016
I was given this book as an (ARC) for an honest review.
The Iron Eagle faces his worst case yet. Roy Teel’s exceptional story telling will leave you dismayed on the evils of man and cheering for the Iron Eagle’s brand of justice.
Merged review:
The Iron Eagle faces his worst case yet. Roy Teel Jr.'s exceptional story telling will leave you dismayed on the evils of man and cheering for the Iron Eagle’s brand of justice. One of the best crime thriller writers of our times, his fast paced writing and unique stories, will keep you interested and longing for the next book in the series. I received this book as an ARC, for an honest review.
The Iron Eagle faces his worst case yet. Roy Teel’s exceptional story telling will leave you dismayed on the evils of man and cheering for the Iron Eagle’s brand of justice.
Merged review:
The Iron Eagle faces his worst case yet. Roy Teel Jr.'s exceptional story telling will leave you dismayed on the evils of man and cheering for the Iron Eagle’s brand of justice. One of the best crime thriller writers of our times, his fast paced writing and unique stories, will keep you interested and longing for the next book in the series. I received this book as an ARC, for an honest review.
April 11, 2016
Book 9 comes out early June. Thank goodness it isn't over yet.
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