Wow! What a ride! I just love the story of this book. I love the world the author created. It feels so real and yet so far in the future, but it's reaWow! What a ride! I just love the story of this book. I love the world the author created. It feels so real and yet so far in the future, but it's really just around the corner. I was watching Nat Geo the other night and they were talking about some country possibly testing nuclear weapons on the moon and I thought--WHAT? Didn't I just read something like that? I did. It was in Locke's new book, Lunar Options. Then they mentioned that there were plans to build a permanent military installation on the moon. Wait a minute. This isn't real is it? MKULTRA was a failed government project, right? Locke admits that, but imagines a world in which one aspect of that program did not fail, but remains to this day and influences leaders around the world. Lazarus Coles is no joke, and somebody got on his bad side in a big way.
The book has a very inventive writing style--telling events from past in such a way that you beg for the prequel. What happened in Banyo, Cameroon did not stay in Banyo, Cameroon. In fact, it went all the way to the moon to get revenge. Damn and Double damn. I love Captain Billy Margate. Dr. Karen "Boyd"-Coles is a female character that oozes honest, intelligent power and crazy knife skills to boot. And Develon Shakespeare is the craziest villain I've read in a long time. But I guess if I went through what he went through with Laz, I'd be crazy, too.
I can't believe this is this guy's first novel. I read his What I Wish I Knew Before I Moved to Hollywood and saw that he was looking at novelizing screenplays. I think that must be what he did here. This feels very complete and thought through. I usually look for loop holes in the logic in books, but I couldn't any here. The science is on point and the story races at you at 75,000 mph.
I'm putting this up here to support independent writers because this is one of the best Techno-Thrillers I've ever read. It's up there with Ludlum and thinks futuristically like Michael Crichton. I highly recommend this book. ...more
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