Young CIA officer Talia Inger has reconciled with the man who assassinated her father, but that doesn’t mean she wants him hovering over her every move and unearthing the painful past she’s trying to put behind her. Still, she’ll need him–and the help of his star grifter, Valkyrie–if she hopes to infiltrate the Jungle, the first ever crowdsourced crime syndicate, to rescue a group of kidnapped refugee children.
But as Talia and her elite team of thieves con their way into the heart of the Jungle, inching ever closer to syndicate boss the White Lion, she’ll run right up against the ragged edge of her family’s dark past. In this game of cat and mouse, it’s win . . . or die. And in times like that, it’s always good to have someone watching your back.
Former tactical deception officer and stealth pilot James Hannibal takes you deep undercover into the criminal underworld where everyone has an angle and no one escapes unscathed.
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Summary
Chasing the White Lion by James R Hannibal is a thrilling sequel. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. The characters and their relationships pulled me immediately into the story.
I am really enjoying this team and look forward to future books with them.
You see the story playing out like a movie. James is such a talented storyteller. You have everything in his books: action adventure, a strong faith element that fits right in with the story, and just a smidgen of romance. He adds just enough humor between the characters to lighten the tension of the creepy crazy villains. He is crowd sourcing crimes.
A parallel story line is a group of children that have been kidnapped. You get so attached to two of them as they make their way through the jungle.
It was nice to see Talia maturing and becoming stronger in this book. And how many of us need the lesson that she is trying to learn. Obviously not to this scale but we think we have to do everything and that we can do it better.
If you enjoyed Leverage or Oceans 11, I think you will love this series. You have a team of characters that can pull of the perfect cons. The team has a tech geek, a bomb enthusiast, a thief/extreme athlete, a con artist and a CIA agent.
I realize it is only March but I am pretty certain that this will be one of my top books for 2020.
Fast paced, with so many unexpected twists and turns,
PS – James mention that a portion of the sales from this book will go to Compassion International.
Violence 2 – they are bad people, who thinks of this stuff, crowd sourcing crimes, killing, kidnapping kids,
I received this book from Netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review.
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