Rogue

by Steve Soderquist, Laura Ranger

Chris and Lexi Denton led what they considered a normal life.


Lexi worked as a dance instructor at a local studio, and Chris was a successful broker at a firm in downtown Miami, Florida.


When Chris gets entangled with a crime boss who utilizes his talent for numbers to cover up deadly secrets, the pair soon discover much more than just Carlos Mandini’s dark secrets, they discover their own.


Chris and Lexi Denton are not who they believed.


As they run for their lives from Mandini and his organization, who they are and what they are capable of, begins to surface. Their pasts are remembered, memories the government thought they had wiped out; the very government that created them.


Now locked in a struggle for their right to even exist, they soon find themselves combating others like them—enhanced government projects created since birth to supplement and aid other military projects. In a run for their lives they discover what they’re capable of, incredible feats of mental and physical strength and skill.


Those in charge neglected to factor in the most important lesson Chris and Lexi learned on their own...


Love supersedes science.


Culminating in an explosive ending that will leave the reader breathless, the two make it their mission to do what they know must be done—assure the Lz Project is not only destroyed, but can never be reactivated...


Even if it means they sacrifice themselves.

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First published June 18, 2015

Reviews

[Stefan Vucak · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chris and Lexi Denton lived what appeared to be unassuming normal lives. He was a financial broker, and she a dance instructor. Their happiness was shattered when Chris found that one of his clients was actually a drug lord for a Colombian cartel. The only way to take him down was to provide the authorities with proof, which Chris obtained by copying incriminating computer files. With hitmen after them, their lives shattered, Chris and Lexi fled, determined to find a way to expose the cartel. When confronted by hitmen, the event triggered an awakening and hidden memories of what they really were – fighting machines developed by the government’s Lz Project to create soldiers without emotion or feeling, controlled by an imbedded chip. Removing their chips, Jack – Chris remembering his real name – and Lexi now had a more important mission: take out the Lz Project and free all the other ‘units’ held at the secret facility. But first, they had to take care of the drug lord. Disposing of that minor irritant using their newly discovered abilities, they recruited three other units sent to kill them, explained their objective, and together, they stormed the Lz facility, which did not lead to a satisfactory conclusion, at least not for the government.

With ‘Rogue’, Steve Soderquist and Laura Ranger give readers an interesting and familiar scenario: governments seeking to eliminate the human element in soldiers, giving the military the ability to conduct warfare at an objective level. However, the human element and the strength of love cannot be removed that easily, as Chris/Jack and Lexi demonstrated. This setting has been explored in many movies, including ‘RoboCop’ and ‘Universal Soldier’ with Claude Van Damme. ‘Rogue’ does not provide new insights or moral judgments, and does not require readers to expend too much intellectual thought. What this book does give is a well written, fast-paced, action-packed story, sympathy for Lexi and Jack’s predicament, and a desire to see the bad guys running the Lz Project suitably dealt with. The books offers a degree of emotional satisfaction, provided readers are prepared to overlook numerous plot inconsistencies, content to immerse themselves in a very readable adventure.

[Carol Burgess-Hobbs · Rating 5 out of 5]

I could tell alot of hard work went into writing this book. This was a must read. The characters brought out the inner strength I had within myself.