Following the stellar thrillers that have featured Mike Walton and Pierce Hunt, Simon Gervais is back with The Last Protector and Former Air Force Combat Rescue Officer and Secret Service Special Agent Clayton White. Gervais is one of my favorite authors today. He delivers time and time again with great writing, creative and intense action, and impressive characters. If you have never read anything by Gervais then you are severely missing out on some fun and entertaining adventures.
Clayton White, the son of a prominent JSOC Brigadier General, sees his time in the military end and then transitions to the Secret Service. While we meet Clayton and learn of the physical battles he faces following being wounded in combat, you see his relationship develop with the daughter of the current Vice President elect. After the loss of his father who is also deployed in a combat zone, the lies and deceit grow fast and deep. Veronica, his girlfriend, is also on the edge of releasing an electronic application to enable worldwide satellite views of archeology excavation, while bad actors are trying to prevent the unearthing of damning evidence.
White is a character that you can only root for, he’s got the deck stacked against him, and he’s about to start kicking ass. The Last Protector has deceit and lies, love and loss, and death. It has it all. Gervais is at his best, producing high-octane deceptive writing at its finest. The characters that he has brought to us have always been nothing but the best of the best, and Clayton White is just another example of his great work. The Last Protector is an outstanding series debut that needs to be on everyone’s must read list. I can’t wait to see what Gervais has in store for Clayton White in the future as the stage is set for nothing but greatness.
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