Operation Storm’s Eye
by E.S. Benton
Style: Thriller, Thriller & Suspense / Technothriller
ISBN: 9781739251635
Print Size: 352 pages
Reviewed by Peggy Kurkowski
A shadowy non-public militia power takes on a anonymous foe able to weaponizing climate on this adrenaline-soaked collection opener.
Operation Storm’s Eye is the primary e book in what seems to be an thrilling new collection. When a personal militia group suffers a devastating setback, they need to get well in time to thwart a rogue group committing crimes within the wake of supposed pure disasters.
The six members of Alpha Group learn about working within the shadows. Staying hidden and unknown are all a part of a day’s work. However when their sister squad, Echo Group, doesn’t come again from a top-secret op, they have to overcome their shock to go after an enemy as shadowy and unseen as themselves. And with the power to create catastrophic storms within the blink of a watch.
Alpha Group is the primary squad—led by Scott, aka Alpha One—of their anonymous group that features Bravo, Charlie, and Delta groups. Calling the pictures above them is the sharply dressed and steely Frenchman, Bosse.
In an operation to retrieve information on the individuals behind Echo Group’s demise, Alpha Group picks up clues a couple of sinister sounding plan named “Operation Storm,” however earlier than they’ll course of this, they run right into a wall of elite fighters generally known as the “Evening Vipers.” Quickly, one other shadow power emerges to complicate issues additional, identified by the acronym MNGWA.
The race towards time to search out these accountable—and cease their use of a mysterious expertise to create extreme climate—takes Alpha and the opposite groups to the depths of the ocean to Earth’s orbit, in pulse-pounding sequences Benton clearly delights in writing and hardcore motion followers will welcome. Some situations are implausible, and suspension of disbelief is required, however readers will thrill to the creator’s inventiveness with weapons and gadgetry, no much less enjoyable for not present in actual life.
Benton’s scenes are sometimes cinematic in scope, as when Alpha One stares down from house on the coming storms on the blue planet: “He might see clouds start to kind down on Earth, protecting what was beneath, like an enormous, darkening blanket.”
And he packs a veritable motion picnic into 348 pages: futuristic expertise, a 200-year-old man generally known as The Vesper, sinister medical experiments, killer robots, house stations, bullet-proof bubble spacesuits, to call just a few. Motion is the secret in Operation Storm’s Eye. Alpha Group actually is aware of find out how to combat:
“They by no means deliberate for if a mission went sideways, they didn’t have to. Our minds don’t want the reminiscence throughout excessive adrenaline moments, they want intuition, and it was intuition that may get them by means of it…”
Benton succeeds at translating these “excessive adrenaline moments” into well-crafted battle set items and excels with hand-to-combat depictions. The motion is on level and elegantly instructed.
Typically although, I wished extra from the character improvement. Benton gives backstory hints and a few element, however they are often sparse and generally superficial in nature like descriptions of hair size, eye colours, and head shapes. I simply wished I received to know these enigmatic and expert warriors extra intimately. Nonetheless, the sequel is incoming and we could get extra quickly.
This bookis a promising begin to what appears to be like to be an thrilling, action-packed collection stuffed with visionary situations and techno-thrills.
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