Looking for a lightning-paced thriller featuring paramilitary elite cops, an international network of bad guys committing the most heinous of crimes, a dose of science fiction, and so much action your darting eyes can barely keep up?
Well, then look no further than OMEGA BLUE.
In addition to all of the foregoing, there are also moments of humanity and characterization that give a surprising depth to the story even as it hurls you along at its breakneck pace.
Set in the mid 2030s, the tale centers around one Slade Wilson, head honcho over Omega Blue, a 6-person elite crime-fighting force in this case going up against "organ jackals" who mercilessly harvest organs from homeless, disenfranchised victims and sell them on the Red Market. In addition to the jackal organization itself—complete with soldiers outfitted with exo-skeletons that make them damn near invincible—corrupt political powers and a rogue mob boss are also at work trying to stop Slade and his team.
But stopping Omega Blue ain't easy, not at any level and not from any quarter.
Slade Wilson is a great hardboiled hero, a sort of Dirty Harry for the future—complete with his very own backup team of specialists and an imaginative array of crime-fighting gadgets.
The seasoned writing skill of Mel Odom is on a par with—or better—than many of the "big names" in the thriller game today. And an extra bit of good news is that he has at least one more Omega Blue adventure waiting in the wings.
So gobble this one as soon as you can and then it's a pretty safe bet you'll be keeping a sharp eye out for more to come.
Highly recommended.
Looking for a lightning-paced thriller featuring paramilitary elite cops, an international network of bad guys committing the most heinous of crimes, a dose of science fiction, and so much action your darting eyes can barely keep up?
Well, then look no further than OMEGA BLUE.
In addition to all of the foregoing, there are also moments of humanity and characterization that give a surprising depth to the story even as it hurls you along at its breakneck pace.
Set in the mid 2030s, the tale centers around one Slade Wilson, head honcho over Omega Blue, a 6-person elite crime-fighting force in this case going up against "organ jackals" who mercilessly harvest organs from homeless, disenfranchised victims and sell them on the Red Market. In addition to the jackal organization itself—complete with soldiers outfitted with exo-skeletons that make them damn near invincible—corrupt political powers and a rogue mob boss are also at work trying to stop Slade and his team.
But stopping Omega Blue ain't easy, not at any level and not from any quarter.
Slade Wilson is a great hardboiled hero, a sort of Dirty Harry for the future—complete with his very own backup team of specialists and an imaginative array of crime-fighting gadgets.
The seasoned writing skill of Mel Odom is on a par with—or better—than many of the "big names" in the thriller game today. And an extra bit of good news is that he has at least one more Omega Blue adventure waiting in the wings.
So gobble this one as soon as you can and then it's a pretty safe bet you'll be keeping a sharp eye out for more to come.
Highly recommended.
Omega Blue is a unit set up by the FBI to deal with difficult cases. Slade Wilson is heir leader.
ReplyDeleteIn this future world, 2033, the U.S. went bankrupt eight years before.As the book opens, Slade and the team are raiding a jackal operation, a group that deals in body organs for sale, most taken from the homeless and disenfranchised. They run into a firestorm with oriental thugs, in this case Koreans they learn with body augments that make them tougher to bring down.