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Korso #3
Prototype
A single breakthrough could change the world forever.
Having just completed a complex recovery assignment, covert salvage specialist Korso is in no mood to take on another job so soon, but he has little choice when he’s contacted by Cole Ashcroft, an ex-colleague who’s calling in a debt. An official at the US Embassy in Bulgaria has approached Cole with a well-paying salvage job, but only if he can persuade Korso to plan the whole operation.
A chemist for a pharmaceutical company has secretly developed a revolutionary glaucoma pill, one with an unexpected side effect that could make it the discovery of the century. But the chemist has since been found dead, and the prototypes are missing...
Aware that ownership of these pills could shift the balance of military power overnight, the embassy man offers to pay Korso handsomely to locate and recover them using any means necessary. But with a job this big Korso also knows he’ll have to assemble a team to help him, and that brings its own set of problems. Because with potential profits in the billions, can he really trust anyone...?
Having just completed a complex recovery assignment, covert salvage specialist Korso is in no mood to take on another job so soon, but he has little choice when he’s contacted by Cole Ashcroft, an ex-colleague who’s calling in a debt. An official at the US Embassy in Bulgaria has approached Cole with a well-paying salvage job, but only if he can persuade Korso to plan the whole operation.
A chemist for a pharmaceutical company has secretly developed a revolutionary glaucoma pill, one with an unexpected side effect that could make it the discovery of the century. But the chemist has since been found dead, and the prototypes are missing...
Aware that ownership of these pills could shift the balance of military power overnight, the embassy man offers to pay Korso handsomely to locate and recover them using any means necessary. But with a job this big Korso also knows he’ll have to assemble a team to help him, and that brings its own set of problems. Because with potential profits in the billions, can he really trust anyone...?
383 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 16, 2023
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About the author
Jason Dean
27 books33 followersJason Dean was born in South London. He spent many years as a graphic designer before turning his talent to writing the kind of pacy thrillers he's always loved reading. He has had four novels published, each featuring his series protagonist, James Bishop. He lives in Thailand with his wife and their dog, and is currently working on the first book in a new thriller series featuring an entirely different kind of hero.
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January 21, 2023
Jason Dean is one of my favorite authors and Korso is a great invention of his. Prototype is the third book in this series about covert salvage specialist Korso. In this one the main adventure is all about finding the wherabouts of some prototype nigh vision pills. I found the second book a little slow but the first and this latest is wonderful. Lots of intrigue, mystery and deception. I actually had no clue where it would end and it did surprise me a lot in the end. As always with Deans books it's well written and it feels like he has walked the streets he is writing about. Great characters and some good suspense as well. I must thank Netgalley and Canelo for giving me this advance copy.
January 27, 2023
I hadn't come across his author before but enjoyed this action-packed book (3rd in series but succeeds as a stand-alone). The writing was very immersive, and it seemed like the author knew the streets of Sofia in Bulgaria very well indeed.
The main character, known simply as Korso, is an independent operator available for hire to 'find things' and didn't particularly mind which side of the law he stood on, because he had his own moral code. There was a fair amount of blood, murder and deception, and our hero had plenty of technology at his disposal, along with a healthy distrust of everyone, including his own team.
The plot hinges around the development of a glaucoma drug which has the fascinating side-effect of enabling the user to see clearly in the dark for a temporary period (6-7 hours). A scientist is murdered after refusing to give up the formula and location of the prototype tablets. I felt more could have been made of the prototype plotline in a practical sense, but the story was basically about the hunt for them by the various players involved. The ending contained a surprise.
I would recommend this book to fans of action / adventure / spy novels.
The main character, known simply as Korso, is an independent operator available for hire to 'find things' and didn't particularly mind which side of the law he stood on, because he had his own moral code. There was a fair amount of blood, murder and deception, and our hero had plenty of technology at his disposal, along with a healthy distrust of everyone, including his own team.
The plot hinges around the development of a glaucoma drug which has the fascinating side-effect of enabling the user to see clearly in the dark for a temporary period (6-7 hours). A scientist is murdered after refusing to give up the formula and location of the prototype tablets. I felt more could have been made of the prototype plotline in a practical sense, but the story was basically about the hunt for them by the various players involved. The ending contained a surprise.
I would recommend this book to fans of action / adventure / spy novels.
February 20, 2023
Not as good as the previous 2.
I like this series, and the concept, but this one just wasn’t as good. Korso is a “covert recovery specialist” and I get the distinct impression the characters conscience is the authors not so subtle way of preaching his personal take on politics, and violence. The ending was just lame. Like a sad PSA, that made zero sense whatsoever.
This is one of those books where I was engaged, and then at the end I was kinda upset I will never get that time back. I have it three stars because the series is good, but this book is not.
I like this series, and the concept, but this one just wasn’t as good. Korso is a “covert recovery specialist” and I get the distinct impression the characters conscience is the authors not so subtle way of preaching his personal take on politics, and violence. The ending was just lame. Like a sad PSA, that made zero sense whatsoever.
This is one of those books where I was engaged, and then at the end I was kinda upset I will never get that time back. I have it three stars because the series is good, but this book is not.
March 5, 2024
The K-Man is back…
.. in a tale of many twists and turns on a mission with vision!
A very clever story you’ll follow with plenty of tension and action.
.. in a tale of many twists and turns on a mission with vision!
A very clever story you’ll follow with plenty of tension and action.
January 24, 2025
Great book, easy to read, full of suspense. This is the third book in the Korsa series. Good characters with quite a few twists, clever story line. Would recommend.
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