Stealth Attack is the 14th and latest publication of the high-octane Jonathan Grave series…and this time it’s personal! The son of Venice Alexander, aka Mother Hen and the technical wizard of Grave’s clandestine operation, is abducted by a Mexican drug cartel. Thinking the kidnapping is in retaliation to prior operations in Latin America, Grave and team deploy all resources at their disposal to locate and retrieve Mother Hen’s son. However, the situation is more complex than they originally understood, forcing the team to toe the line between legal and illegal actions, crossing it as necessary to save one of their own family. It’s a race against the clock with brutal dismemberment of a teenager the price of failure.
John Gilstrap’s specialty is turning the action “up to 11” early on and never taking his foot off the gas, building suspense like watching a balloon expand to the brink of popping before being satisfyingly tied off at the exact right moment. Stealth Attack is no exception. You feel the building tension and anxiety throughout the story as it progresses at breakneck speed, wondering if this innocent kid will be saved or brutally murdered at the hands of a psychopath. And as you witness the lengths Digger, Boxers, Slinger, Thor and Mother Hen will go to, you are forced to grapple with how you’d respond and behave, consequences be damned, if faced with the same horrible situation.
Stealth Attack is another strong entry into a wholly underrated series that thriller fans need to be reading. You won’t find many series that can go toe to toe with this one on pacing, pure enjoyment and badassery.
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