Review: Buckle up.The whirlwind is about to begin!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2011
Are you interested in a fast paced thriller? Sometimes too fast paced. The characters are very believable and interesting. Nick West is required to take out a known terrorist who had been reportedly killed in a sanction over six years ago. He has resurfaced and has a plan to kill those responsible for the failed sanction on him and earn a tremendous amount of money with a new biochemical weapon that makes Anthrax look like a bad case of the flu.The plot is very intriguing and high paced. At times I couldn't stop reading while others I questioned the feasibility of the time frame. The thought patterns are well developed but just as I was settling in and catching up with characters and plot, I was whisked away to another tangent. If that is the author's intention to keep the reader off balance, he did an excellent job.One minute Nick West is taking his orders from Oelxia Syshchenko (a member of a covert agency in Ireland) to kill the terrorist. The next he is Boston with his old pal "Dog" Dawson roughing up drug lords and then is on the West Coast looking for his target who had just released a small dose of the bio-chemical weapon on the man who informed on him many years ago. For those of us who remember end enjoyed the Andromeda Strain, then you are sure to enjoy the bio-chemical compound.I actually believe the author got so wound up writing it, he forgot to slow down and take a breath. I understand there will a third one coming out in this series. I will be buying it. I just hope Mr. Burkett slows down just a bit. If he does, then I see a blockbuster thriller in the likes of  Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum and Ian Fleming.