Author: Andrew Mayne
Published: September 7th 2021 by Thomas & Mercer
Format: Kindle Edition, 332 pages
Genre: Techno Thriller
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Theo Cray and Jessica Blackwood #1
First Sentence: Kelsi the silver robot girl pushed her bicycle up the Brooklyn Bridge with her back to Manhattan.
From the Publisher: A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void.
FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand. Their greatest adversary, a serial killer and cultist known as the Warlock, has escaped during a prison transfer in New York. A depraved master of manipulation, he promised the end of days. He’s making good on it.
One by one, cities across the globe are erupting in chaos as they disappear into the same black holes. Even for two ingenious trackers like Jessica and Theo, there’s still so much to learn about the pattern to the Warlock’s madness. The voids are just a warm-up for something bigger. To discover it—to stop it—Jessica and Theo must descend into the darkest of shadows—and minds. (Amazon)
My Opinion: When an author combines characters from two of their series, it can challenge the reader. When an author combines two characters, one from a series I look forward to and one that I have never read, made me apprehensive. To know computational biologist Theo Cray is to love him, but introducing FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood, could take me in a direction I wasn’t willing to go. But Andrew Mayne made it work -- he so made it work.
Thankfully, Theo’s brilliant mind, his quirky sense of humor, and his compassion were not overshadowed by a forceful single-minded Jessica -- a woman who literally had a few tricks up her sleeve. She never played him or disregarded his ideas. At times, she may have been a step behind but trusted in Theo enough to let his logic play out, and in time, they would both get to the same place.
From the Publisher: A mysterious electrical storm plunges Manhattan into darkness. As a strange, smothering fog rolls in, all communication crashes. In the blink of an eye, the island seems to vanish into a void.
FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood and brilliant scientist Dr. Theo Cray know this isn’t a freak accident. It’s a sinister sleight of hand. Their greatest adversary, a serial killer and cultist known as the Warlock, has escaped during a prison transfer in New York. A depraved master of manipulation, he promised the end of days. He’s making good on it.
One by one, cities across the globe are erupting in chaos as they disappear into the same black holes. Even for two ingenious trackers like Jessica and Theo, there’s still so much to learn about the pattern to the Warlock’s madness. The voids are just a warm-up for something bigger. To discover it—to stop it—Jessica and Theo must descend into the darkest of shadows—and minds. (Amazon)
My Opinion: When an author combines characters from two of their series, it can challenge the reader. When an author combines two characters, one from a series I look forward to and one that I have never read, made me apprehensive. To know computational biologist Theo Cray is to love him, but introducing FBI special agent Jessica Blackwood, could take me in a direction I wasn’t willing to go. But Andrew Mayne made it work -- he so made it work.
Thankfully, Theo’s brilliant mind, his quirky sense of humor, and his compassion were not overshadowed by a forceful single-minded Jessica -- a woman who literally had a few tricks up her sleeve. She never played him or disregarded his ideas. At times, she may have been a step behind but trusted in Theo enough to let his logic play out, and in time, they would both get to the same place.
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