Bob has sworn he’ll never kill again. But some promises are hard to keep.
Bob Singleton used to be a top CIA assassin. Now, scarred by his terrible past, he lives in a refrigerator box behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago.
He just wants to be left alone. But his past is coming back to haunt him, in the shape of a nurse and a teenage boy who desperately need his help.
They are being pursued by trained killers because they stumbled on a long-buried conspiracy, a secret that is tied to a failed mission in Bob’s military past.
Now they need Bob to protect them. The old Bob, the one who fearlessly put his enemies in the ground.
Bob sees a chance to discover the truth about what happened all those years ago. Can he redeem himself, and honor the sacrifice of the men who died?
To do so, he must use the same deadly skills that made him a legend in his day. Skills he had sworn he would never use again….
Code Red — the first in a stunning new action thriller series. Perfect for fans of Jason Kasper, Jack Carr, and Lee Child.
Ian Loome writes thrillers and mysteries. His books have been downloaded more than a half-million times on Amazon.com and have regularly featured on the Kindle best-seller lists for more than a decade. For 24 years, Ian was a multi-award-winning newspaper reporter, editor and columnist in Canada. When he’s not figuring out innovative ways to snuff his characters, he plays blues guitar and occasionally fronts bands. He lives in Sherwood Park, Alberta, with his partner Lori, a pugnacious bulldog named Ferdinand, a confused mostly Great Dane puppy named Ollie, and some cats for good measure.
This is his first action thriller with Inkubator Books.
My thoughts: although I found it hard at first to take a hero called Bob seriously (I don’t really know why) this was a cracking thriller. A reluctant hero, Bob is dragged back into action after members of his old team are killed and a teenage boy comes looking for him. When a nurse is also put in the firing line, Bob drags all his old skills and knowledge to the surface. Life on the streets hasn’t let him get soft and he won’t allow any more innocents to die on his watch.
A blend of various action heroes, and a good dose of his own unique character, Bob is the only one who can fix this mess and put a stop to the deaths. He needs to identify the mole in the team, get some info from an old boss and sort out a few old vendettas, all while keeping teenager Nathan and nurse Dawn safe.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.
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Thank you so much for taking part in the tour x
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