Genre:
Militia, Science Fiction
Book
Description
Matt
Rowley hasn't been human for years. A commando for the International Council on
Augmented Phenomena, he hunts down superhuman monsters the military can't
handle. But his abilities come with a price: bloodthirsty whispers that urge
him to acts of terrible violence. An encounter with a giant, angelic being with
wings of smoke and shadow casts him into a world of inhuman brutality, demonic
possession, and madness, where he must choose between his family and his soul.
The
Review
Matt
Rowley, an ICAP commando, and his crew are always on the move. This time, they
are inside a warehouse. It should be an
easy operation, with little to no casualties. They maneuver the building and encounter
more resistance than they had expected, but they hold off the goons long enough
to make it to the helicopter. Once
they are out of harm’s way, Matt and his boss debate the likelihood that
something was off about the mission.
From
then on, disturbing events unfold, and Matt and his team learn things that
would make grown augmented men shudder—things that might very well strip away everything
they know and love. In the meantime, ICAP kept them busy, sending them to
foreign lands to spearhead negotiations with a Jade dealer.
Midway,
Matt and his squad are propelled into a high-octane bloodlust fight. Lives are extinguished, some they regret, others not
so much. Cursing the choice he was forced to
make, Matt soldiers on, determined to find out what went wrong.
Will he
find out what caused all of the chaos or will they die before learning the
truth?
I like that…
Matt
can crush a trachea with his thumb, but when he is at home with his wife,
Monica, he is a different man. Even when
he feels like his humanity is slipping away, she is the thread that holds him
together.
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I’m looking
forward to reading the sequel, BLACK TIDE, which comes out 4/17.
Author
Bio
Patrick
Freivald is a two-time Bram Stoker Award nominee, a teacher (physics, robotics,
American Sign Language), beekeeper, and author, and coach of an award-winning
competition robotics team for high school students.
He
lives in Western New York with his loving wife, birds, dogs, cats, and several
million stinging insects. 
