I was hunting for a good free eBook – my recent fascination with it. I came across the author J Robert Kennedy and his willingness to give away not one, not two, but five of his books. All you have to do is just subscribe to his page (and I think you can unsubscribe as soon as you’re done with the download)!
The Protocol is his first “James Acton” thriller – as said in Goodreads. Looks like he went ahead and wrote sixteen James Actor thrillers! Wow, that was quite an achievement in about six years! James Acton is an archelogical professor – you can very well compare him to the Robert Langdon. But, even when I was reading the book (and after completing it), I found the “role” of one Professor James Acton to be very less than the “Bravo” team who were ordered to take him out. Let’s first read what Goodreads has to say about this book:
First read of the blurb and I was hooked. I was assuming a ‘DaVinci Code’ kinda thriller, but absolutely disappointed with the book. The author had done little research about the Triarii and the Crystal Skull both seems to be the important things in this book. And as I said, for a “James Acton” thriller, he had very little ‘paper time’ (well I don’t know how to say that for books, for movies they say screen time). The Delta Force and Triarii mentioned in the blurb took the cake in this book rather than James Acton.
The book starts slow, almost having no connectivity between the first eight or so chapters (all starts from a different place/situation) and it take sometime to get a clear picture of the story. Sometimes a character, last read in say 30th chapter, comes suddenly in 80th chapter, leaving you asking yourself “Who the hell is this guy?” There were a few loose ends that were not tied, probably left open for his future books.
The only upside of this book is the Delta Force. Scenes involving them were fascinating. The high end chases and bullet sounds keeps us hooked to the book. A lot of things could have been done differently and the backstory to 1212 were just for the sake of it. Nothing useful came out from those chapters other than a mere mention in the future dialogues. I rated this book 3 stars only because of the action scenes and the justification of the villain.
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The Protocol is his first “James Acton” thriller – as said in Goodreads. Looks like he went ahead and wrote sixteen James Actor thrillers! Wow, that was quite an achievement in about six years! James Acton is an archelogical professor – you can very well compare him to the Robert Langdon. But, even when I was reading the book (and after completing it), I found the “role” of one Professor James Acton to be very less than the “Bravo” team who were ordered to take him out. Let’s first read what Goodreads has to say about this book:
For two thousand years the Triarii have protected us, influencing history from the crusades to the discovery of America. Descendent from the Roman Empire, they pervade every level of society, and are now in a race with our own government to retrieve an ancient artifact thought to have been lost forever.
Caught in the middle is archaeology professor James Acton, relentlessly hunted by the elite Delta Force, under orders to stop at nothing to possess what he has found, and the Triarii, equally determined to prevent the discovery from falling into the wrong hands.
With his students and friends dying around him, Acton flees to find the one person who might be able to help him, but little does he know he may actually be racing directly into the hands of an organization he knows nothing about…
First read of the blurb and I was hooked. I was assuming a ‘DaVinci Code’ kinda thriller, but absolutely disappointed with the book. The author had done little research about the Triarii and the Crystal Skull both seems to be the important things in this book. And as I said, for a “James Acton” thriller, he had very little ‘paper time’ (well I don’t know how to say that for books, for movies they say screen time). The Delta Force and Triarii mentioned in the blurb took the cake in this book rather than James Acton.
The book starts slow, almost having no connectivity between the first eight or so chapters (all starts from a different place/situation) and it take sometime to get a clear picture of the story. Sometimes a character, last read in say 30th chapter, comes suddenly in 80th chapter, leaving you asking yourself “Who the hell is this guy?” There were a few loose ends that were not tied, probably left open for his future books.
The only upside of this book is the Delta Force. Scenes involving them were fascinating. The high end chases and bullet sounds keeps us hooked to the book. A lot of things could have been done differently and the backstory to 1212 were just for the sake of it. Nothing useful came out from those chapters other than a mere mention in the future dialogues. I rated this book 3 stars only because of the action scenes and the justification of the villain.
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