Review: Appears to adhere to the author's stated goal
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2014
JET - OPS FILES, Publisher Reprobatio Limited, e-book by Russell Blake is the prequel to his best-selling series featuring a female protagonist working as the "Mossad's most lethal operative". It has been written `to explain how she got that way'.Maya Weiss is a private serving mandatory time in the Israeli Defense Force at a checkpoint on the West Bank. Sarah, the only other woman in the command and her friend, is killed in an attack. Her Sergeant Kevod, whose sexual advancements she constantly must evade, attempts to implicate her, divulging knowledge of her abused youth and having time spent in juvenile detention. She again refuses to comply with his `suggestions' and he threatens to extend the investigation as long as required. Maya, as a result of her unfortunate earlier life is inured to the threats and speaking Arabic as well as several other languages fluently, surreptitiously spends time in the Arab quarters looking for the perpetrators of the attack. She discovers names, is attacked, is aided by a Mossad agent, is assigned to agent training and the story continues as she completes assignments far beyond expectations.In the series' first book the author admonishes the series will be "deliberately and joyously over-the-top featuring a female protagonist" and in positions that are "unapologetically overblown and strives to be a non-stop adrenaline rush, an action thriller that breaks the mold and tramples convention."The series appears to have been eminently successful in attaining his goal and this prequel is no exception.