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GET9: An Angela McGlynn Thriller
Everything in Angela McGlynn's life as she knows it is about to change. When you're in the law enforcement business, it's not ideal when your criminal past begins to resurface.
Running background checks on the personnel of a local tech company in her native San Francisco, Angela McGlynn finds herself caught up in an impossible situation when the federal government becomes involved. Immersed in a rapidly changing scenario in which allies and allegiances are switching fast, secrets from her dark past begin to surface which threaten to destroy her and those closest to her.
This is the second book in the Vigilante Investigator series which can also be read as a standalone novel.
Also in this series: #1 The Breaks (Novel) and #3 Zero Day (Short Story)
Acclaim for the series:
‘Angela McGlynn would normally be described as the female Jack Reacher. That’s selling her short.’
Murder, Mayhem & More
‘Charlie Fox and Angela McGlynn would get along just fine.’
Zoe Sharp – Author of the Charlie Fox series
‘Everything a fast-paced, gritty, West Coast gumshoe thriller ought to be. And more.’
Andy Martin – Author of Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the making of Make Me
‘Sharp has a talent for energetic prose. I look forward to more from her and the further exploits of McGlynn and Knox.’
Crime Fiction Lover
Running background checks on the personnel of a local tech company in her native San Francisco, Angela McGlynn finds herself caught up in an impossible situation when the federal government becomes involved. Immersed in a rapidly changing scenario in which allies and allegiances are switching fast, secrets from her dark past begin to surface which threaten to destroy her and those closest to her.
This is the second book in the Vigilante Investigator series which can also be read as a standalone novel.
Also in this series: #1 The Breaks (Novel) and #3 Zero Day (Short Story)
Acclaim for the series:
‘Angela McGlynn would normally be described as the female Jack Reacher. That’s selling her short.’
Murder, Mayhem & More
‘Charlie Fox and Angela McGlynn would get along just fine.’
Zoe Sharp – Author of the Charlie Fox series
‘Everything a fast-paced, gritty, West Coast gumshoe thriller ought to be. And more.’
Andy Martin – Author of Reacher Said Nothing: Lee Child and the making of Make Me
‘Sharp has a talent for energetic prose. I look forward to more from her and the further exploits of McGlynn and Knox.’
Crime Fiction Lover
276 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 20, 2019
About the author
Eden Sharp
3 books51 followersEden Sharp started out in film production before going into the music and computer games industries and has also worked variously as an actor, fitness instructor, bartender, and copywriter. Eden has a bachelor's degree in writing contemporary fiction, a master's degree in creative and critical writing, and teaches fiction writing and publishing at SSU. (Also writes hardboiled thrillers).
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TVM31KY
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00TVM31KY
Other interests: Karate, Krav Maga and photography.
Eden says:
"Writing is an addiction I've had since childhood. I decided I wanted to be a writer aged six and devised my own TV cop show in high school. I used to act out all the parts in my bedroom and then have my English teacher mark my scripts. I never stopped writing but it took me many years to do anything about it. Eventually I got serious and spent five years learning the craft and technique of writing starting with the Writers' Program at UCLA.”
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00TVM31KY
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00TVM31KY
Other interests: Karate, Krav Maga and photography.
Eden says:
"Writing is an addiction I've had since childhood. I decided I wanted to be a writer aged six and devised my own TV cop show in high school. I used to act out all the parts in my bedroom and then have my English teacher mark my scripts. I never stopped writing but it took me many years to do anything about it. Eventually I got serious and spent five years learning the craft and technique of writing starting with the Writers' Program at UCLA.”
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July 2, 2019
Corporate espionage, social engineering and black-hat tradecraft set the scene in this high-tech, hard-wired thriller. The story boils down to desperate moments of ephemeral intimacy between old friends – people using cutting edge tech and serious combat skills in dire situations.
Freelance Angela McGlynn is supremely savvy online and hard to beat in a fist fight. Her usual work involves surveillance, investigation and making delicate adjustments to tricky situations; sometimes for her clients, sometimes for her own personal projects. This time she’s the pawn in a multi-national, multi-million dollar game; coerced into playing a pivotal role when she doesn’t understand the rules.
GET9’s timing couldn’t be better. McGlynn is a hacktivist cyber-warrior. She’s as accomplished online as she is on the streets, using misdirection and manipulation in a crusade of anti-corporate, anti-establishment direct action. She’s a woman of solid principles and fluid moves, who takes down her opponents with vicious efficiency but who rarely lets the fog of war blur her moral boundaries.
Unlike some fictional freedom fighters, McGlynn isn’t simply battling against the bad guys. She moves beyond the clear-cut role of the vigilante avenger which was established in the first book in this series. In GET9 McGlynn is clearly fighting for the important things: her lovers past and present; her friends and allies, and for the people who can’t defend themselves.
The result is a mesmerising plot which zigs and zags as rapidly as McGlynn’s hard and fast tradecraft in an all-action page-turner that defies expectations and breaks the usual boundaries of the genre. McGlynn definitely gets under your skin, but just when you think you know where the narrative is going it takes a sharp right into enemy territory. The final chapters in particular are hard to interpret: events which should elicit an enormous emotional wallop take place off-stage, out of sight. We learn about pivotal developments secondhand, and the effect is strangely subdued and more than a little unsettling.
These unresolved ambiguities left me slightly uncomfortable, wondering if we’ve been told the whole story – or if there’s more to come in the next McGlynn thriller. I’ll be waiting to find out…
8/10
There's more about this book - and other crime-thrillers - over at http://www.murdermayhemandmore.net
Freelance Angela McGlynn is supremely savvy online and hard to beat in a fist fight. Her usual work involves surveillance, investigation and making delicate adjustments to tricky situations; sometimes for her clients, sometimes for her own personal projects. This time she’s the pawn in a multi-national, multi-million dollar game; coerced into playing a pivotal role when she doesn’t understand the rules.
GET9’s timing couldn’t be better. McGlynn is a hacktivist cyber-warrior. She’s as accomplished online as she is on the streets, using misdirection and manipulation in a crusade of anti-corporate, anti-establishment direct action. She’s a woman of solid principles and fluid moves, who takes down her opponents with vicious efficiency but who rarely lets the fog of war blur her moral boundaries.
Unlike some fictional freedom fighters, McGlynn isn’t simply battling against the bad guys. She moves beyond the clear-cut role of the vigilante avenger which was established in the first book in this series. In GET9 McGlynn is clearly fighting for the important things: her lovers past and present; her friends and allies, and for the people who can’t defend themselves.
The result is a mesmerising plot which zigs and zags as rapidly as McGlynn’s hard and fast tradecraft in an all-action page-turner that defies expectations and breaks the usual boundaries of the genre. McGlynn definitely gets under your skin, but just when you think you know where the narrative is going it takes a sharp right into enemy territory. The final chapters in particular are hard to interpret: events which should elicit an enormous emotional wallop take place off-stage, out of sight. We learn about pivotal developments secondhand, and the effect is strangely subdued and more than a little unsettling.
These unresolved ambiguities left me slightly uncomfortable, wondering if we’ve been told the whole story – or if there’s more to come in the next McGlynn thriller. I’ll be waiting to find out…
8/10
There's more about this book - and other crime-thrillers - over at http://www.murdermayhemandmore.net
December 2, 2019
I really like this character and this series so far. My rating isn't as high as it could be, mostly because of my own inadequacies when it comes to understanding technology. There were parts of the story that were a little harder to get into due the details of the hacking world. I also struggled with understanding exactly what was happening at times when it came to the Feds, the CIA, the company, etc...who was doing what and why. The characters were still immensely satisfying (mainly Knox and McGlynn). I could definitely feel Knox's frustration. I look forward to the next one and to seeing how these two main characters work together. Their level of trust with each other isn't quite there yet which has made things interesting so far.
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