Author: Andrew Mayne
Published: September 13th 2022 by Thomas & Mercer
Format: Kindle, 336 pages
Genre: Suspense
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Theo Cray and Jessica Blackwood #2
First Sentence: The suspect’s body lies on the table before me.
Blurb: Dr. Theo Cray and FBI agent Jessica Blackwood follow a deadly celestial trail in a thrilling novel by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Mastermind.
A signal is detected at the outer edge of the solar system. Computational biologist Dr. Theo Cray and magician-turned-FBI-agent Jessica Blackwood are looking—and listening—a little closer.
The man at the center of this cosmic mystery is billionaire Thomas T. Theismann. He’s spent a lifetime—and a fortune—trying to find out if we’re alone in the universe. Highly skeptical, Theo joins the effort to find the source of the signal, and he quickly enlists Jessica to look into the suspicious death of another academic at the lab. As their investigations converge, they uncover curious connections to the otherworldly contact, including a 1970s science-fiction writer and the body of an astronaut found buried in an ancient tomb.
As they delve into Theismann’s history, Theo and Jessica’s fascination with the signal intensifies. How dangerous will the investigation get? That depends on how deep into the unknown Theo and Jessica are prepared to venture. (GoodReads)
My Opinion: It always takes me a long time to get into an Andrew Mayne novel. Instead of accepting the science, theories, and references at face value, I am hopping onto the internet and diving into the more curious parts.
To understand Theo, and his unconventional ways, start his books from the beginning. I was not introduced to Jessica until she first met up with Theo, and I do not think I have missed too much of her past. The left turns in this book will keep the reader fascinated, and knowing all points will merge, does not diminish their individualism and the reader's joy in bouncing back and forth.
Are some parts farfetched? Of course, but that is the beauty of the writing and Theo in particular. His mind does not work like everyone else's and his perception, and naivete of the world, take the reader through the real, and the imagined, with a great deal of humor on the side.
By all means, Theo, help those in need, not self-indulgent billionaires and their dreams of world domination.
Blurb: Dr. Theo Cray and FBI agent Jessica Blackwood follow a deadly celestial trail in a thrilling novel by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Mastermind.
A signal is detected at the outer edge of the solar system. Computational biologist Dr. Theo Cray and magician-turned-FBI-agent Jessica Blackwood are looking—and listening—a little closer.
The man at the center of this cosmic mystery is billionaire Thomas T. Theismann. He’s spent a lifetime—and a fortune—trying to find out if we’re alone in the universe. Highly skeptical, Theo joins the effort to find the source of the signal, and he quickly enlists Jessica to look into the suspicious death of another academic at the lab. As their investigations converge, they uncover curious connections to the otherworldly contact, including a 1970s science-fiction writer and the body of an astronaut found buried in an ancient tomb.
As they delve into Theismann’s history, Theo and Jessica’s fascination with the signal intensifies. How dangerous will the investigation get? That depends on how deep into the unknown Theo and Jessica are prepared to venture. (GoodReads)
My Opinion: It always takes me a long time to get into an Andrew Mayne novel. Instead of accepting the science, theories, and references at face value, I am hopping onto the internet and diving into the more curious parts.
To understand Theo, and his unconventional ways, start his books from the beginning. I was not introduced to Jessica until she first met up with Theo, and I do not think I have missed too much of her past. The left turns in this book will keep the reader fascinated, and knowing all points will merge, does not diminish their individualism and the reader's joy in bouncing back and forth.
Are some parts farfetched? Of course, but that is the beauty of the writing and Theo in particular. His mind does not work like everyone else's and his perception, and naivete of the world, take the reader through the real, and the imagined, with a great deal of humor on the side.
By all means, Theo, help those in need, not self-indulgent billionaires and their dreams of world domination.
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