The Breach
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- ISBN13: 9780061584459
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Thirty years ago, in a facility buried beneath a vast Wyoming emptiness, an conduct experiment gone awry accidentally opened a door.
It is the world’s best-kept secret—and its most terrifying.
Trying to regain his life in the Alaskan wilds, ex-con/ex-cop Travis Chase stumbles upon an impossible scene: a crashed 747 passenger jet filled with the murdered dead, including the wife of the President of the United States. Though a nightmare of monumental proportions, it pales before the terror to come, as Chase is dragged into a battle for the future that revolves around an incredible manufactured article.
Allied with a gorgeous covert operative whose life he saved, Chase must now play the role he’s been destined for—a pawn of incomprehensible forces or humankind’s final hope—as the race toward Apocalypse starts in earnest.
Because something is loose in the world.
And doomsday is not only possible . . . it is inevitable.
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I’m giving this book a 1 star review because of pricing…sorry. I can go to Walmart and buy it for less than an ebook, and I reflect that’s incorrect. I’ve written and phoned Amazon and the publisher complaining of this new pricing strategy and have chose to boycott both and go to my local used bookstore so neither gets my money. I’m out of thoughts on how to protest.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
More sci-fi and Indian Jones type book than mystery, as I thought it was originally. Not too terrible, lots of action and book moves along one you get into it.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I bought this on the basis of the publisher’s advance reviews. Won’t do that again. The books has shallow characters that are hard to care about and a silly premise. Reads like the first work of a teenage sci-fi writer wannabe.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I have to say that Patrick Lee’s “The Breach” kept me solidly entertained for two days straight.
The basic tale of ex-con/ex-cop Travis Chase stumbling onto a crashed airliner starts pumping on all cylinders about 20 pages in, and it just doesn’t stop. What I liked about Chase’s character was his viscous streak. Not too many novels feature a hero willing to bash in heads with a crowbar or take part in a massive shoot-out against hundreds of “28 Days Later”-like raging Europeans hellbent on tearing apart our hero and his team. Chase can be a stone cold killer when needed…and luckily its needed reasonably regularly in “The Breach”.
I loved the sci-fi fundamentals that form the backbone of “The Breach”. What is the breach? You have to read to find out? What is Whisper? That is the question that will nag you for 400 pages and keep you turning the pages. Sure, some genre fans will probably be able to see some of the twists and turns coming from a long way off….so what? Patrick Lee has a wonderful, fluid writing style that will keep your interest. Lee has also populated his tale with appealing characters you want to read about, from Chase’s would-be like interest Paige to the ruthless villain named Pilgrim.
If you like novels by James Rollins, or if you are a fan of the Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs, give “The Breach” a shot.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Patrick Lee’s blistering debut novel THE BREACH starts off like your average ho-hum thriller, and I wasn’t exactly bowled over at what I was reading. But then a quarter thru the book, the tale ratchets it up to another level and also soon takes on this fascinating sci-fi element. Patrick Lee reminds me a bit of James Byron Huggins whose CAIN and HUNTER also take the thriller genre and pull off a topsy-turvy. Except that, as a replacement for of science fiction, Huggins infuses a horror vibe into his testosterone-driven novels. But the breakneck, take-no-prisoners approach to storytelling is very similar. THE BREACH also borrows a bit of this and that from the WAREHOUSE 13 television series. So, yeah, some of the stuff in this book is derivative. Doesn’t stop it from being a rollicking, dynamite read.
It’s been a year since Travis Chase had finished serving out his stint in prison. Once a bent ex-cop, today Travis is hiking in the freezing Alaskan wilderness, just wanting to get away from things. But his self-imposed exile ends abruptly when he stumbles onto a downed Boeing 747 passenger jet and finds murdered corpses onboard, including, shockingly, that of the First Lady. Her desperate last ditch note sends Travis Chase on a mission to avert Doomsday, envelops him in a global conspiracy which safeguards a staggering secret.
I let out a small turn your nose up at when I saw Lee Child’s blurb on the take in. “…uncannily believable” is how the blurb ends. Thing is, Patrick Lee introduces a pretty outrageous conceit which you have to swallow or else the plot collapses like neglected souffle. So, I’ll mention again that this novel nudges a bit past its action thriller genre. We’re also reminded once more that hubris and tampering with the fabric of reality are real excellent ways to kick off the end of days.
I reflect that the writer comes up with something unputdownable, but then again I dig these types of books. The premise is intriguing. The stakes are set on an apocalyptic level. The action is explosive. The main villain is grave and formidable. The arcs of the main characters renovate nicely. The female lead is brainy but can handle herself in a firefight. Travis Chase is a terrific flawed hero shouldering a criminal past and, as it unfolds, promised a very enigmatic future. We’ll be seeing more of him and Paige Campbell and the top secret Tangent organization since Lee already has a sequel in the works (supposedly titled GHOST COUNTRY).
Some of the techno-gadgets Lee unveils are pretty inventive. And if a contrivance were ever deemed subversive and truly sinister, it would have to be the blue orb called the Whisper. That thing manipulates people and events like nobody’s business, and the sense I got is that, this whole entire time, the Whisper was simply toying with the excellent guys who, admittedly, have every right to be hysterically frightened. The ending is as twisty as M.C. Escher’s pretzels and it sets up an irresistible plot contrivance going into the next book.
A bit X-FILESsy, and even smacks of the PREDATOR in how the narrative flow soon shifts from conventional military action to something very much out of the ordinary. Patrick Lee is off to a frenetic start. Can he keep it up?
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5