Red Rain

Commander T. C. Bogner #7

by R. Karl Largent

The natural disaster was tragic enough. A severe earthquake struck the northern part of Mongolia, destroying a train and its crew. But the train’s cargo was the cause of the real disaster. The train was transporting nuclear waste from a top secret Chinese weapons facility to a dumping site in the Gobi Desert. The Chinese government worked hard to conceal the accident and the resulting spill, but it didn’t count on a Russian aircraft on a training mission.

The Russian pilot noticed the evidence of the massive radiation poisoning and reported back to his superiors. That’s when everything went to code red. The Chinese would do anything to conceal the location of their weapons facility, but they couldn’t stop the suspicious. With Chine, Russia, and the United States rushing toward an explosive face-off, it fell to one American to find out the truth… before it was too late.

243 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 28, 2001

About the author

R. Karl Largent, a.k.a. Robin Karl or Simon Lawrence, is an author, lecturer, and columnist who teaches writing at Tri-State University. Before launching his writing career, he spent 30 years in industry, the last 17 as VP of Marketing for a Fortune 500 multinational. A former horse show judge and trainer of youth horses, he competed in SCCA road racing events, flew as a weather observer in the USAF, completed a tour of duty in the Arctic and served with the U.S. Weather Bureau.

R. Karl Largent is the author of over 600 columns. He has also authored nearly two dozen novels including the bestselling "Red" series. He has also written six non-fiction books as well as numerous articles for magazines, newspapers and other publications.

Reviews

[Rymington Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was very hard to keep up with all the character and place switching in the beginning but once it smoothed out the story line was enjoyable, it was able to continue to surprise me around the corners and I was even shocked by the two deaths at the end. Would have loved to have a bit more of an epilogue.

[David · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is listed on Goodreads as the seventh book in the T. C. Bogner series, but does not feature this character at all. That was the most disappointing about this book because I actually liked this character and was looking forward to see how the last book left the character. Instead we get T. J. Seacord which is a clone of Bogner. He works for a different Governmental agency, but has much of the same skills as Bogner.
That said, this book had an interesting story, but was weaker than the earlier books in this series.
I can see why this author faded away.