Review: Jim Coffey delivers a good read with The Janus Effect - Highly Recommended
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2014
Jim Coffey has written a multi-layered techno-thriller called The Janus Effect. The main protagonist is a brilliant epidemiologist for The Department of Homeland Security by the name of Austyn Newman. Dr. Newman is called in when America is under attack by a devastating biologic weapon. The weapon is a flesh eating bacteria that seems incurable. The Janus effect can be termed a techno-thriller. The book has a fast pace and becomes a race against time to stop the attacks.Newman, desperate to find a way to stop the biologic attacks, travels to a CIA ghost-prison in Afghanistan to find a woman who may be connected to the creation of the virus. The woman, Fahimah Banaz, has been held for more than five years, but Coffey discovers she had been trying to stop the virus when she was taken by the CIA. Can Newman and Banaz find a way to work together to stop this deadly threat? Is everything as it seems?The writing in this book is fast-paced and the plot is filled with suspense and some unexpected twists and turns. If you like techno-thrillers and suspense, you should definitely read The Janus Effect.