Operation Cavolo
by E.S. Benton
Style: Thriller, Thriller & Suspense / Motion
ISBN: 9781739251659
Print Size: 332 pages
Reviewed by Peggy Kurkowski
Alpha Staff is racing the clock to cease a worldwide toxin conspiracy, however an internet of deceit and betrayals threatens their seek for an antidote earlier than tens of millions of innocents die.
When a mass poisoning alerts the members of Alpha Staff to a rogue actor out for vengeance, they’ve eighty-four hours to avert the deadly countdown and discover the antidote in Operation Cavolo, the second ebook within the Silent Codename collection by E.S. Benton.
Six months after stopping the nefarious group Fellscient from unleashing world pure disasters through the climate, Alpha Staff and their alphabetic siblings Bravo, Charlie, and Delta, are again to stopping one-off criminals. However Fellscient is not going to be stopped of their quest for world domination, and one Captain Frederick “Kale” Bridge has a vial up his sleeve that guarantees to carry the world to its knees.
Ten years in the past, Kale and his workforce had been ambushed in a distant jungle village and imprisoned and tortured for sixteen months. Kale escaped with the assistance of a mysterious agent, and now acts out his vengeance by poisoning meals in a significant manufacturing facility. Certainly, for Kale “revenge is very similar to whisky. It would burn, but it surely’s value it, and the longer is ages, the higher it will get.”
When folks fall sick, and plenty of of Kale’s private targets die, Alpha Staff and their urbanely dressed French boss (named Bosse) should act shortly to search out the antidote. In the meantime, Scott (aka Alpha One) welcomes a recruit, Mia (Alpha Seven) whose on-the-job coaching is about to get fairly harmful, certainly.
Together with the return of their earlier nemesis, Alpha Staff learns {that a} diabolical management construction inside Fellscient referred to as the “5 Limbs of the Beast” is searching for a alternative “limb” after the demise of one in every of its members in Operation Storm’s Eye, the primary ebook within the collection. Scott shortly learns that Kale is gunning for the place and can dangle the poison treatment above their heads to realize his goals.
Benton is a skillful motion author whose elaborate battle items are intelligent, ingenious—gun grips which might be coded to the blood vessels, for one—and simply absurdly enjoyable to learn. With Alpha Staff as soon as once more inserting themselves into death-defying firefights, Benton makes use of cinematic soar cuts in time to disclose every operative’s position because the mayhem unfolds. It’s Mission Inconceivable on steroids.
However the nearer Alpha Staff will get to Kale, the extra secrets and techniques are revealed of previous associations and hidden truths. Benton has compelling surprises in retailer for his characters and even larger selections of loyalty they have to make individually.
For Daniel (aka Alpha Two), the thriller of his mother and father’ loss of life in a automobile accident is uncovered in addition to the sinister machinations of these engineering Alpha Staff’s involvement in monitoring down the antidote. Daniel’s undercover operation introduces the workforce to the evil Grenham, who additionally seeks to govern Kale for his personal evasive functions, however Daniel is sensible to what Grenham’s story actually is. In any case, he is aware of that “the primary individual to dictate a narrative controls the narrative.”
Benton improves on his first outing by offering extra backstory for Daniel, Scott, and Anthony (aka Alpha 5), who all search closure for occasions within the first novel, however the sheer variety of plot twists and new enemies launched will be exhausting to observe on this one. Nonetheless, higher a humiliation of riches than a plot plagued with a poverty of concepts.
Can the workforce discover the mastermind of chaos manipulating every of them? Benton teases that there’s extra in retailer—even after a cliffhanger and explosive denouement deep within the jungles of Senegal—as Alpha Staff lastly catches as much as Kale in a showdown that would make allies enemies and vice versa.
Buckle up, motion lovers…Operation Cavolo offers you what you got here for after which some, upping the ante on this compelling battle towards the forces of evil.
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