David Scott’s debut is a tremendous delight for thriller fans on the prowl for a new action-packed series with a rip-roaring storyline and charmingly deadly characters of nebulous shades.
The Titan Protocol introduces Isaac Northe as a former Marine now working at a private security firm, Peregrine. When he hears of the death of his best friend under suspicious circumstances involving an international arms-smuggling ring and a supposedly faulty state of the art artificial intelligence drone, he sets on a personal mission to uncover the truth and bring the culprits to justice with his team. His desire for revenge brings him face to face with one of the most exciting and intriguing female assassins that have blessed the thriller genre, especially with a kickass introductory action sequence in a club straight out of a John Wick movie.
David Scott writes steady and confident as someone who has been in the writing world for a long time. His prose is elegantly crisp without meandering away from the main goal of entertaining readers with a fast-paced story. His experience as a software developer makes the techno-oriented portions of the narrative easy to follow while augmented with sporadic shootouts and combat sequences of high caliber cinematic writing.
The grimly attractive characters are balanced in tones between aggressively dark and perfectly timed comical relief to keep the narrative both upbeat and intense at the same time. Isaac Northe is a violent man with a violent past who makes for a lean and mean protagonist whose path you would not want to cross. However, the aforementioned femme fatale, Marissa Diaz, gives Northe a run for his money in terms of the best character of the narrative. Diaz is witty and fun even as she effortlessly takes down bad guys with her Glock 19 as easily as she does with a meat cleaver. Her backstory is kept a secret with just bits and pieces revealed, keeping her allegiance and motivations in the shadows for a more intriguing persona.
I finished the whole book in less than 24 hours because I couldn’t pull myself away from the constantly churning chain of events interspersed with action and humor at the right moments. The Titan Protocol works well as an introduction to a brand-new world of espionage and global conflict, ending with a cliffhanger that leaves you speechless.
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