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The Unit #18

by Anne Fox

While on a training exercise, the Field Team finds themselves suddenly cut off from contact with their supercomputer, Hal. What has caused the disruption? Can it have anything to do with the mysterious disappearance of one of Oscar Avila's classmates? As the unit is called to investigate the disappearance of Fred Miller, they begin to fear that he may be a domestic terrorist. How can they determine his target and stop him before he carries out his plan?

342 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 9, 2021

About the author

Anne Fox is an author (obviously), firearms instructor, former flight instructor, and holds degrees in music and biochemistry/molecular biology. She currently spends her time writing, traveling, and participating in marksmanship competitions.

Living in the desert Southwest city of El Paso, Texas, she draws heavily from her own experiences and past travels while accompanying a husband in the military to bring life to her stories. She enjoys traveling and seeing what the United States has to offer while based out of her travel trailer.

Her non-human friends include two Maine Coon cats (Sigwan and Hebert), a flock of chickens that lay blue eggs, and a pond full of goldfish. She also participates in El Paso's Community Cats program by caring for a colony of feral cats. She enjoys a host of hobbies which she also draws from for her books: rockhounding, gardening, jewelry-making, beadwork, silk flower arranging, and other crafts.

Reviews

[Anne Fox · Rating 5 out of 5]

I will state my usual bias as the author of the book. I revisit my books periodically in order to do minor editing corrections.

This book is part of a series that deals with an ultra-covert law enforcement team. One of the things the team is reliant upon is a massive supercomputer that they cal "Hal" (what else?). When they lose contact with Hal, which ordinarily is in continuous contact via a satellite link, they become cued into just how reliant they've become.

Along with this, a unit employee currently studying computer science at MIT contacts them to ask if they can track a person who has been telling him disturbing things about his own belief that computers are being used to subvert the public. That leads them on a quest to find this person, feeling he is planning a terrorist attack.

As is usual in my series, the book focuses heavily on the team members who do this work. It's my effort to demonstrate the human side of a thriller rather than constant blood and guts.

[Walter Critz · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this gripping tale, the Unit faces the challenge of tracking down a terrorist who has dropped off the grid while also finding their own computer system under apparent attack. A central theme of the book relates to governmental data collection with Unit members using every tool at their disposal to find the bad guy, who coincidently has fallen off the deep end over what he considers to be overreaching government surveillance. As a bonus for long-term fans, there is a bit of a back story on one of the main people in the Support Team! You will race through this book as it follows themes that seem to be ripped from today's headlines!