Mike 4

MIKE4 #1

by J.R. Seeger

MIKE 4 IS THE CALL SIGN FOR CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER SUE O'CONNELL- a Special Operations Force (SOF) surveillance specialist. She is the daughter of a pair of CIA agents and the granddaughter of a famous World War II OSS agent. She is part of a team that "finds and fixes in place" terrorists so that SOF assault teams can "finish" the target. An injury forces O'Connell to join a team of SOF operators training to become counterterrorism intelligence collectors. While at the CIA Farm, Sue learns that her family has a more complex history in the CIA than she thought; A History that includes both counterintelligence secrets and a 60-year old Russian vendetta. Sometimes, leaning family secrets can be painful. Sometimes, they can be deadly. PRAISE FOR MIKE4 "If you like good takes of the shadowy often hard-edged world of counter-terrorism, read Mike4. Written by a veteran of "the community," it will teach while it entertains."- GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, author of My Share of the Task: A memoir and Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World. "Straight from CIA's war zone files, MIKE4 crackles with authenticity, like a satcom phone in the field."- JASON MATTHEWS, author of The Red Sparrow Trilogy. "JR Seeger has written the heart and soul of a person who must make hard decisions at the hardest moment, often in a world of grey, of lies, while in the search for a truth. Her struggle to maintain her humanity is drawn straight from the street, from the field, which Seeger knows better than anyone."-DOUG STANTON, New York Times best-selling author of 12 Strong and The Odyssey of Echo Company.

Genres: Fiction

386 pages, Paperback

Published May 23, 2018

Reviews

[Robert VanBuhler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having read the Kindle edition, I now wish I had bought it in paper. The front of the book contains a very extensive glossary of military and intel terms and slang that you will want to know as you read, and on Kindle it is hard to go back and forth.

Mike4 is about an Army Warrant Officer, a woman functioning in a man's world, earning her stripes in recon and ending up recruited to a more pure intel role after CIA training. It is complicated by her three generation background in intelligence and a quasi-governmental Russian gangster intent on revenge for something her grandfather did. Who tries to kill off her family one by one, starting with her father.

This is volume 1 of a series, and I can't wait to read Book 2.

[Garrett Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting story of a young girl and her family in the CIA

This story cover the grandfather, father,mother and child as the figure out how the Russians go after the family for a death many years ago

[Chris Ciron · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exciting new series about a female counterintelligence operator!!!

Great start to this series!!! Very exciting tale of current counterintelligence told from a female perspective. Looking forward to the next book & the continuing adventures of Sue O'Connell!!!

[Alycia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dnf at 50%. I tried so hard because I love all things espionage related. Flat characters and bad dialogue are hard to overcome. I found myself saying “no woman would say that” so many times that I had to give up.

[Nicollette Winiewicz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an interesting read and not something I would normally pick up and dig right into. But I decided to give it a try as this is a local Buffalo author and some major scenes take place on the Historic Roycroft Campus. Full of Ops and action; mystery and murder; espionage and the military; this book had it all. Pretty well written for being a first for the author.