TechnoThriller - Force Nine by Chris H Stevenson #melangebooks #forcenine #chrishstevenson

MY REVIEW

The main reason I chose to read Force Nine by Chris H Stevenson is because of the main character, Diane Nine. She’s twenty nine years old, a comic book artist, and a paraplegic.

Chester “Chet” Strauss is also an intriguing character. He’s an engineer…and a traitor. He has developed a combat exoskeleton. Immediately made me think of Avatar, though the storylines are nothing alike. It does, however, make it easier to visualize the workings of the exoskeleton. Chet has manipulated Diane into becoming his human experiment.

Diane has escaped Chet’s clutches with his exoskeleton suit and he will stop at nothing to get it back. Can she be rescued before he gets his clutches on her? Only time will tell. Enter a CIA weapons analyst who joins the party in Diane’s quest to escape Cuba, with the suit, during a hurricane. A great storm always adds a little something extra to a great story.

Force Nine was a refreshing break from the murder and fantasy mayhem that seem to be my mainstay. It mashes politics and terrorism into a technothriller that kept me rapidly ‘flipping pages’. The action is intense and the danger is off the charts.

My thanks go out to Chris H Stevenson for the opportunity to read Force Nine.

AMAZON SYNOPSIS

Twenty-nine-year-old Diane Nine, a nationally famous comic book artist and writer, has been a paraplegic since the age of five. Her life is upended when she meets the mysterious Chester “Chet” Strauss.

Chet is a brilliant freelance engineer who has created a revolutionary combat exoskeleton capable of reshaping global military warfare. But he is also a nefarious traitor. Through deception, he manipulates Diane into smuggling the suit out of the country and into the hands of a ruthless communist triad.

Accompanied by her massage therapist and her caregiving secretary, Diane finds herself stranded in Cuba, fighting for survival against terrorists and a Category Five hurricane. Bound to the exoskeleton, she becomes a walking weapon of mass destruction—driven by a single goal: escape the island with the suit.

Her only hope lies in a curious CIA weapons analyst who literally stumbles into her path and joins the melee. As the U.S. military closes in, deploying overwhelming force just short of declaring war, the situation spirals into chaos. The ultimate dilemma remains: the military must find the foursome before it can help them—if it’s not already too late.