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Chase Malone #5
Chasing Life
For humanity to continue There's always been one rule Don’t mess with our DNA.
The rule has been broken!
A billionaire fugitive and a rogue spy uncover a secret scientific plot to manipulate human DNA putting all of humanity at risk. A desperate race ensues to save life as we know it! Editing DNA . . . talk about life changing!
Can be read as a stand-alone novel. Series can be read in any order.
An Action Adventure Espionage TechnoThriller. Get it now!
Find out why a million copies of Brandt Legg's books have been sold/downloaded worldwide,
a USA Today bestselling author who uses his unusual real-life experiences to color page-turning thrillers.
The rule has been broken!
A billionaire fugitive and a rogue spy uncover a secret scientific plot to manipulate human DNA putting all of humanity at risk. A desperate race ensues to save life as we know it! Editing DNA . . . talk about life changing!
Can be read as a stand-alone novel. Series can be read in any order.
An Action Adventure Espionage TechnoThriller. Get it now!
Find out why a million copies of Brandt Legg's books have been sold/downloaded worldwide,
a USA Today bestselling author who uses his unusual real-life experiences to color page-turning thrillers.
301 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 10, 2020
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About the author
Brandt Legg
45 books373 followersUSA TODAY Bestselling Author Brandt Legg uses his unusual real life experiences to create page-turning novels. He’s traveled with CIA agents, dined with senators and congressmen, mingled with astronauts, chatted with governors and presidential candidates, had a private conversation with a Secretary of Defense he still doesn’t like to talk about, hung out with Oscar and Grammy winners, had drinks at the State Department, been pursued by tabloid reporters, and spent a birthday at the White House by invitation from the President of the United States.
At age eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business, and turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the “Teen Tycoon,” and by the mid-eighties, Legg was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America, appearing as high as number twenty-four on the list (when Steve Jobs was #1, Bill Gates #4, and Michael Dell #6). Legg still jokes that he should have gone into computers.
By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, leveraging, and risk-taking, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed and a firestorm of trouble came down. The Teen Tycoon racked up more than a million dollars in legal fees, was betrayed by those closest to him, lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties.
After a year, Legg emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew. More than twenty-five years later, he’s now using all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Legg’s books pulse with authenticity.
His series have excited nearly a million readers around the world. Although he refused an offer to make a television movie about his life as a teenage millionaire, his autobiography is in the works. There has also been interest from Hollywood to turn his thrillers into films. With any luck, one day you’ll see your favorite characters on screen.
Legg now writes full time – his favorite endeavor ever! For more information, visit BrandtLegg.com, or to contact Brandt directly, email him: Brandt@BrandtLegg.com, he loves to hear from readers and always responds!
Books by Brandt Legg
CapWar ELECTION (CapStone Conspiracy #1)
CapWar EXPERIENCE (CapStone Conspiracy #2)
CapWar EMPIRE (CapStone Conspiracy #3)
COSEGA SEARCH (Cosega Sequence #1)
COSEGA STORM (Cosega Sequence #2)
COSEGA SHIFT (Cosega Sequence #3)
COSEGA SPHERE (Cosega Sequence #4)
THE LAST LIBRARIAN (Justar Journal #1)
THE LOST TREERUNNER (Justar Journal #2)
THE LIST KEEPERS (Justar Journal #3)
OUTVIEW (Inner Movement #1)
OUTIN (Inner Movement #2)
OUTMOVE (the Inner Movement #3)
Follow Brandt:
Amazon - amazon.com/author/brandtlegg
BookBub - bookbub.com/authors/brandt-legg
Twitter - twitter.com/brandtlegg
Facebook - facebook.com/brandtleggauthor
At age eight, Legg's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business, and turned a hobby into a multi-million-dollar empire. National media dubbed him the “Teen Tycoon,” and by the mid-eighties, Legg was one of the top young entrepreneurs in America, appearing as high as number twenty-four on the list (when Steve Jobs was #1, Bill Gates #4, and Michael Dell #6). Legg still jokes that he should have gone into computers.
By his twenties, after years of buying and selling businesses, leveraging, and risk-taking, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties. The stock market crashed and a firestorm of trouble came down. The Teen Tycoon racked up more than a million dollars in legal fees, was betrayed by those closest to him, lost his entire fortune, and ended up serving time for financial improprieties.
After a year, Legg emerged from federal prison, chastened and wiser, and began anew. More than twenty-five years later, he’s now using all that hard-earned firsthand knowledge of conspiracies, corruption and high finance to weave his tales. Legg’s books pulse with authenticity.
His series have excited nearly a million readers around the world. Although he refused an offer to make a television movie about his life as a teenage millionaire, his autobiography is in the works. There has also been interest from Hollywood to turn his thrillers into films. With any luck, one day you’ll see your favorite characters on screen.
Legg now writes full time – his favorite endeavor ever! For more information, visit BrandtLegg.com, or to contact Brandt directly, email him: Brandt@BrandtLegg.com, he loves to hear from readers and always responds!
Books by Brandt Legg
CapWar ELECTION (CapStone Conspiracy #1)
CapWar EXPERIENCE (CapStone Conspiracy #2)
CapWar EMPIRE (CapStone Conspiracy #3)
COSEGA SEARCH (Cosega Sequence #1)
COSEGA STORM (Cosega Sequence #2)
COSEGA SHIFT (Cosega Sequence #3)
COSEGA SPHERE (Cosega Sequence #4)
THE LAST LIBRARIAN (Justar Journal #1)
THE LOST TREERUNNER (Justar Journal #2)
THE LIST KEEPERS (Justar Journal #3)
OUTVIEW (Inner Movement #1)
OUTIN (Inner Movement #2)
OUTMOVE (the Inner Movement #3)
Follow Brandt:
Amazon - amazon.com/author/brandtlegg
BookBub - bookbub.com/authors/brandt-legg
Twitter - twitter.com/brandtlegg
Facebook - facebook.com/brandtleggauthor
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October 1, 2021
Chasing Life is the fifth in an eight book series of thrillers featuring Wen Sung and Chase Malone. Wen, we learn on page one, is a former top Chinese spy; her billionaire boyfriend Chase is a Silicon Valley veteran, and at age 29, a technology wunderkind. Together their goal is to prevent people from using technology to cause harm.
In this installment, which begins at a breakneck pace and accelerates from there, the communist Chinese are portrayed as clever, ruthless and subversive. They are about to perfect human gene editing — not to cure disease, but to create a master race and dominate the world.
The secret Chinese facility housing this project is basically impenetrable. Cue Chase and Wen to do the impossible and penetrate the facility using simplistic storytelling to expose the communist plot and rescue the victims of the Chinese genetic experiments. They predictably succeed thanks to Wen’s uncanny sense of timing, killing skills, and a convenient deus ex machina whenever they need saving from hopeless situations.
The scene which is pictured on the cover illustrates all that is wrong with this book. Wen and Chase now have the proof they need to show the world how the evil communists are manipulating DNA. They must leave China as soon as humanly possible. The Chinese military and police are in hot pursuit.
But Wen’s grandmother refuses to leave with them unless they recover her family’s ashes from an urn located somewhere in a huge city which has been submerged underwater since 1959. And yet they manage to locate diving gear, the submerged city and the urn as if they have all the time in the world.
Putting the silliness aside, perhaps not coincidentally this book was published in 2020, the year of the coronavirus which many believe “escaped” from a Wuhan laboratory in communist China causing a worldwide pandemic. If author Brandt Legg has raised awareness that the communist Chinese really are as deadly and dangerous as he’s portrayed them in his fictional fantasy, then he has rendered the public a valuable service.
A final word about the author. According to his biographical profile, Brandt Legg became a multimillionaire by age 20 and has hobnobbed with at least one US President and Secretary of Defense, Senators, Congressmen, Oscar winning actors, astronauts and CIA agents.
On the negative side he also left secondary school without graduating, pled guilty to fraud and served time in federal prison. Along the way he apparently taught himself to write with little formal education and now supports himself and his family writing elementary thrillers.
Even if his incredible profile is only partially accurate, there’s no doubt he’s led a more interesting life than any of his cliched characters in Chasing Life.
In this installment, which begins at a breakneck pace and accelerates from there, the communist Chinese are portrayed as clever, ruthless and subversive. They are about to perfect human gene editing — not to cure disease, but to create a master race and dominate the world.
The secret Chinese facility housing this project is basically impenetrable. Cue Chase and Wen to do the impossible and penetrate the facility using simplistic storytelling to expose the communist plot and rescue the victims of the Chinese genetic experiments. They predictably succeed thanks to Wen’s uncanny sense of timing, killing skills, and a convenient deus ex machina whenever they need saving from hopeless situations.
The scene which is pictured on the cover illustrates all that is wrong with this book. Wen and Chase now have the proof they need to show the world how the evil communists are manipulating DNA. They must leave China as soon as humanly possible. The Chinese military and police are in hot pursuit.
But Wen’s grandmother refuses to leave with them unless they recover her family’s ashes from an urn located somewhere in a huge city which has been submerged underwater since 1959. And yet they manage to locate diving gear, the submerged city and the urn as if they have all the time in the world.
Putting the silliness aside, perhaps not coincidentally this book was published in 2020, the year of the coronavirus which many believe “escaped” from a Wuhan laboratory in communist China causing a worldwide pandemic. If author Brandt Legg has raised awareness that the communist Chinese really are as deadly and dangerous as he’s portrayed them in his fictional fantasy, then he has rendered the public a valuable service.
A final word about the author. According to his biographical profile, Brandt Legg became a multimillionaire by age 20 and has hobnobbed with at least one US President and Secretary of Defense, Senators, Congressmen, Oscar winning actors, astronauts and CIA agents.
On the negative side he also left secondary school without graduating, pled guilty to fraud and served time in federal prison. Along the way he apparently taught himself to write with little formal education and now supports himself and his family writing elementary thrillers.
Even if his incredible profile is only partially accurate, there’s no doubt he’s led a more interesting life than any of his cliched characters in Chasing Life.
January 13, 2020
‘Never break the blind, maintain the zone’
One of the reasons Pacific Northwest author Brandt Legg has been so successful in his writing and publishing and selling his books is his magisterial management of his website. From his biographical data we learn that he is ‘a former child prodigy who turned a hobby into a multi-million dollar empire. At eight, Brandt's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business. National media dubbed him the Teen Tycoon; but by the time he reached his twenties, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties, lost his entire fortune . . . and ended up serving time in federal prison for financial improprieties.’ Or as Brandt shares, ‘Twenty-five years ago, sitting in a hot, humid federal prison cell in Virginia, I first dreamed of being not just a writer, but a writer who could earn a living, support a family and keep writing. But I had dropped out of high school, having only completed tenth grade English. As I sat on that metal cot, penniless and heavily in debt, with almost a year left on my sentence, it seemed an impossible dream. Still, for more than two decades, while doing everything but writing, I somehow kept the dream alive. Amazon's KDP changed everything.’ One year later he began anew in retail and real estate. In the more than two decades since, his life adventures have led him through magazine publishing, a newspaper column, photography, FM radio, CD production and concert promotion.’ He is also a gifted landscape photographer.
CHASING LIFE is another fine episode of the Chase Wen Thrillers, a series that follows Brandt’s chosen genre of Techno thrillers. The potency of his skillful writing is evident from the first page of this fine novel: ‘In five days she hadn’t killed anyone, hadn’t even thought about guns. Five days wasn’t the longest she’d ever gone, but in recent months, it counted as a record. Wen Sung, a former top Chinese spy, had been trained and employed by the Ministry of State Security, China’s CIA equivalent...” With this nod to one of the main characters the new novel spins on.
The plot – ‘Chase and Wen take on the challenge of their lives, after a reclusive scientist successfully transforms human DNA in a living subject, and then goes beyond, to do something far more dangerous. After his accomplishments are uncovered by the
This is yet another fine thriller novel by Brandt Legg, fast becoming one of the more important writers in the thriller genre. Recommended.
One of the reasons Pacific Northwest author Brandt Legg has been so successful in his writing and publishing and selling his books is his magisterial management of his website. From his biographical data we learn that he is ‘a former child prodigy who turned a hobby into a multi-million dollar empire. At eight, Brandt's father died suddenly, plunging his family into poverty. Two years later, while suffering from crippling migraines, he started in business. National media dubbed him the Teen Tycoon; but by the time he reached his twenties, the high-flying Legg became ensnarled in the financial whirlwind of the junk bond eighties, lost his entire fortune . . . and ended up serving time in federal prison for financial improprieties.’ Or as Brandt shares, ‘Twenty-five years ago, sitting in a hot, humid federal prison cell in Virginia, I first dreamed of being not just a writer, but a writer who could earn a living, support a family and keep writing. But I had dropped out of high school, having only completed tenth grade English. As I sat on that metal cot, penniless and heavily in debt, with almost a year left on my sentence, it seemed an impossible dream. Still, for more than two decades, while doing everything but writing, I somehow kept the dream alive. Amazon's KDP changed everything.’ One year later he began anew in retail and real estate. In the more than two decades since, his life adventures have led him through magazine publishing, a newspaper column, photography, FM radio, CD production and concert promotion.’ He is also a gifted landscape photographer.
CHASING LIFE is another fine episode of the Chase Wen Thrillers, a series that follows Brandt’s chosen genre of Techno thrillers. The potency of his skillful writing is evident from the first page of this fine novel: ‘In five days she hadn’t killed anyone, hadn’t even thought about guns. Five days wasn’t the longest she’d ever gone, but in recent months, it counted as a record. Wen Sung, a former top Chinese spy, had been trained and employed by the Ministry of State Security, China’s CIA equivalent...” With this nod to one of the main characters the new novel spins on.
The plot – ‘Chase and Wen take on the challenge of their lives, after a reclusive scientist successfully transforms human DNA in a living subject, and then goes beyond, to do something far more dangerous. After his accomplishments are uncovered by the
This is yet another fine thriller novel by Brandt Legg, fast becoming one of the more important writers in the thriller genre. Recommended.
January 31, 2021
In the fifth gripping episode in the "Chase Wen Thrillers" - "Chasing Life" the billionaire engineer and the former Chinese spy are headed to China to uncover the truth about a scientist experimenting with human gene editing in embryos and adults to further the government's plan to create a master race.
Fast-paced and with nail-biting action Chase Malone and Wen Sung escape car chases, snipers and helicopter gun ships while being pursued by Minister Li Dazhao and the MSS as they struggle to find evidence of Dr. Tian’s work at the BioCheng Lab. Intensity and suspense heat up when they discover test subjects, children hidden at a facility much like a nursing home who Malone wants to rescue, while Wen haunted by her past is determined to save her grandmother. Well-developed and absorbing the plot keeps you riveted as it flows quickly and smoothly to an exciting clash at the end.
Among the characters infusing excitement into the intrigue are the quick-witted and confident Wen Sung; the brainy and inventive tech billionaire Chase Malone; strategic thinker and brusque Tess Federgreeen; and the brilliant, spunky young Chinese test subject Tu. Yet it’s the ambitious, shrewd Minister Li and his loyal top lieutenant Shen Han who add a dark chill to this techno thriller.
As always I thoroughly enjoyed “Chasing Life” and give high marks to another episode in this tension-filled and exciting series.
Fast-paced and with nail-biting action Chase Malone and Wen Sung escape car chases, snipers and helicopter gun ships while being pursued by Minister Li Dazhao and the MSS as they struggle to find evidence of Dr. Tian’s work at the BioCheng Lab. Intensity and suspense heat up when they discover test subjects, children hidden at a facility much like a nursing home who Malone wants to rescue, while Wen haunted by her past is determined to save her grandmother. Well-developed and absorbing the plot keeps you riveted as it flows quickly and smoothly to an exciting clash at the end.
Among the characters infusing excitement into the intrigue are the quick-witted and confident Wen Sung; the brainy and inventive tech billionaire Chase Malone; strategic thinker and brusque Tess Federgreeen; and the brilliant, spunky young Chinese test subject Tu. Yet it’s the ambitious, shrewd Minister Li and his loyal top lieutenant Shen Han who add a dark chill to this techno thriller.
As always I thoroughly enjoyed “Chasing Life” and give high marks to another episode in this tension-filled and exciting series.
January 19, 2021
It’s Action. It’s Engaging.
The story is straightforward but that makes it only more interesting. Interestingly enough, even though it’s fiction, you get to learn a lot about the Chinese culture, which I enjoyed.
If you’re looking for a page turner that blends technology & detailed action sequences that aren’t clichés, then pick this one up.
The story is straightforward but that makes it only more interesting. Interestingly enough, even though it’s fiction, you get to learn a lot about the Chinese culture, which I enjoyed.
If you’re looking for a page turner that blends technology & detailed action sequences that aren’t clichés, then pick this one up.
April 18, 2021
Riveting plot
First read of Brandt Legg’s books. I couldn’t put it down! A bit violent and at times hard to follow for me with references to AI but I enjoyed the thrill of the race to accomplish good. A little scary thinking that although a fictional novel, could very well be linked to the real world!
First read of Brandt Legg’s books. I couldn’t put it down! A bit violent and at times hard to follow for me with references to AI but I enjoyed the thrill of the race to accomplish good. A little scary thinking that although a fictional novel, could very well be linked to the real world!
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July 21, 2022Inside China
Phew! Chase and Wen go to China. Risky for anyone, deadly for them . Genetic manipulation being done everywhere, but more aggressively in China, has surfaced . They plan to get the data. Essentially a suicide mission.
I recommend reading this series from the first book because many inferences in each book lead back to that book.
Phew! Chase and Wen go to China. Risky for anyone, deadly for them . Genetic manipulation being done everywhere, but more aggressively in China, has surfaced . They plan to get the data. Essentially a suicide mission.
I recommend reading this series from the first book because many inferences in each book lead back to that book.
December 17, 2020
Chasing Life
Chasing Life is an exciting read! I couldn’t put it down! If you love to read nonstop action, this is a book you don’t want to miss. I’m ready to read the next in the series.
Chasing Life is an exciting read! I couldn’t put it down! If you love to read nonstop action, this is a book you don’t want to miss. I’m ready to read the next in the series.
December 20, 2020
Great action!
This novel has action and suspense from beginning to end with just enough romance thrown in to keep it interesting. Also a clean novel with no foul language so that's a plus for me!
This novel has action and suspense from beginning to end with just enough romance thrown in to keep it interesting. Also a clean novel with no foul language so that's a plus for me!
December 25, 2020
It caught my interest with the first chapter
I enjoyed every page of this story. I admit, I read for amusement so the few typos didn't bother me. I also enjoyed the surprises in technology.
I enjoyed every page of this story. I admit, I read for amusement so the few typos didn't bother me. I also enjoyed the surprises in technology.
January 3, 2021
Highly frenetic lethal action.
The characters in this novel are amazing yet strangely believable.
Simply put the action never stops which is makes this a very difficult book to put down.
The characters in this novel are amazing yet strangely believable.
Simply put the action never stops which is makes this a very difficult book to put down.
May 25, 2021
Fast moving action action but, fiction, very improbable in much action. They would be great with everything if some logical results occurrences or actions resulted rather than always winning everything
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June 25, 2021
2020 Background
Relative to all who survived 2020. I found very believable plot but struggled accepting final rescue. Fast paced and moved from challenge to challenge with little jumpy transitions. Characters were predictable and one dimensional.
Relative to all who survived 2020. I found very believable plot but struggled accepting final rescue. Fast paced and moved from challenge to challenge with little jumpy transitions. Characters were predictable and one dimensional.
November 21, 2021
Very thrilling book
Well this book is thrilling from cover to cover. Another great storyline in the Chase series. I highly recommend the reading of this book and the whole series before it.
Well this book is thrilling from cover to cover. Another great storyline in the Chase series. I highly recommend the reading of this book and the whole series before it.
January 10, 2022
Thrilling!
Spectacular, dramatic, full of suspense! You won't out this one down until you have read the last page. Jason Bourne, move over - there's a new man and woman in town! Love the characters for their strength and sense of justice. Fun to follow.?
Spectacular, dramatic, full of suspense! You won't out this one down until you have read the last page. Jason Bourne, move over - there's a new man and woman in town! Love the characters for their strength and sense of justice. Fun to follow.?
February 3, 2023
Chasing Creativity
I'm so focused upon reading each new book, I've got no time for any single review on each book.
Suffice to say the books are captivating, with vewr few typos or spelling errors.
Great work, Mr. Legg! Thanks very much!
I'm so focused upon reading each new book, I've got no time for any single review on each book.
Suffice to say the books are captivating, with vewr few typos or spelling errors.
Great work, Mr. Legg! Thanks very much!
January 11, 2021
Awesome read!!!
The series is going to be exciting to read if they are anything like the first book. I thought enjoyed the action and all the technology simulations.
The series is going to be exciting to read if they are anything like the first book. I thought enjoyed the action and all the technology simulations.
February 1, 2021
A thrilling read
This book was amazing. It was action packed with well developed characters. The story line was well executed and believable.
This book was amazing. It was action packed with well developed characters. The story line was well executed and believable.
August 12, 2021
Fantastic
Another captivating book. Pulls you in and keeps your intetezt. I read this book in a few Hours.! Just had to reach the conclusion.
Another captivating book. Pulls you in and keeps your intetezt. I read this book in a few Hours.! Just had to reach the conclusion.
December 14, 2021
Excellent cat and mouse read.
June 21, 2022
I am absolutely amazed at the imagination this author displays when creating all of the exciting scenes in his books - and this one is no different than his other books - what an entertaining read.
November 29, 2022
More action and adventure
This series just keeps getting better and better. The world is changing and becoming more dangerous let’s hope that the author is wrong but if not….
This series just keeps getting better and better. The world is changing and becoming more dangerous let’s hope that the author is wrong but if not….
October 5, 2023
I rate this one 5 stars.
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