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To find justice for those he loved, a man finds himself at the center of a dangerous global conspiracy…

When Jon Sommers finds out his fiancé Lisa Gabriel died in a terrorist bomb attack, he is visited by spymaster, Yigdal Ben-Levy, who throws Jon’s life into chaos, when he tells him that Lisa was not a fellow graduate student but a Mossad spy sent to bring him to Israel. Ben-Levy convinces Jon to seek justice for Lisa’s murder by joining Mossad and going after Tariq Houmaz, her killer.

Shortly after training, Jon’s entire new team is executed by the bomb maker, who murdered Lisa, and only Jon escapes the massacre. As he leaves the scene, Jon finds himself captured, threatened and turned into a double agent for MI-6. When his Mossad handler, Ben-Levy learns this, he wants Jon dead as an example to other Israeli coverts.

If being a hunted double agent isn’t enough, Jon comes across information in his spying for MI-6 that suggests Israel is in impending danger from Houmaz. To stop this catastrophe, Jon must put together his own team, one he can trust with his life. Can Jon bring justice to Lisa's murderer, or will millions of lives be lost?

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"Kane (DeathByte,2014) has a background in espionage, and his insider's knowledge of the subjectshines through in the precise and authentic details he conveys. That attentionto detail helps to keep readers on track even as the plot splits off into moreand more tangled strands... Themajority of the supporting characters, including master hacker William Wing,his female counterpart, Betsy "Butterfly" Brown, and Mossad spymaster YigdalBen-Levy, are much more compelling. A globe-trotting spy thriller dense with intriguing insider'sknowledge." - Kirkus Reviews

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ASIN : B00K0029J0
Publisher : The Swiftshadow Group, Inc.; 1st edition (April 27, 2014)
Publication date : April 27, 2014
Language: : English
File size : 835 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 324 pages
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #433,095 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,331 in Technothrillers (Kindle Store)
- #1,731 in Political Thrillers & Suspense
- #1,841 in Terrorism Thrillers (Kindle Store)

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J. Wilson

Could have been a pretty good story, but no

Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2019

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Generally, this would be a pretty good spy thriller. There is a sheen of authenticity from the author's (supposed) back story, but by the time I'd gotten 80% of the way through the book I was losing patience with his work. Other reviewers have pointed out plot holes and other flaws, but what tore it for me was something very simple. Repetition.

Yup, repetition. Saying the same thing over and over. Not just similar things but word-for-word the same thing.

At least 5 times during the book, the used the phrase "no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy". Fine, this is an old saying, and is labeled as such. There's a reason for that - it's on old saying. Meaning that everyone already has heard it. It might be worth stating once, but to trot it out over and over again makes me question the fundamental abilities of the author.

Also, the main action in the book takes place over the course of just over a month. During this time, the protagonist is shot at least three times - twice requiring surgery. He has elective circumcision. He's tortured and has his lower intestine partially pulled out through his navel with a corkscrew.

All the while, he still has enough mojo to participate in multiple escapades and firefights while traveling all around the world. The author occasionally mentions that he's experiencing a "twinge" of pain. Seriously? Any one of these experiences would lay him up for weeks. No one has that kind of physical rebound.

Sheesh.

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ilbob

Got less and less plausible as it went on

Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2017

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I am a fan of the genre of the Spy action thriller. However I expect that a good one will remain plausible. There are bound to be a few things that are not really believable but the author has to create a universe where it seems at least plausible for me to appreciate this kind of book. I read about two-thirds of this book that I got as a free Kindle download before giving up on it. Just way too many implausible things go on. Like when he becomes a Mossad assassin in 4 months. Just ain't going to happen. And that's one of many things that happen that just tripped my implausible meter. So I quit on the book. Books I start and give up on get one star in my personal grading system. It had potential but I think the author felt he had to keep making it more and more incredible to keep the audience interested and what he ended up doing was just make it less and less plausible. I can't recommend this book.

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Deepak Menon

I would place Mr. D S Kane firmly on the same platform that John Le Carre stands on - 5 STARS!

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2015

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Jon Sommers, an orphan whose parents died in an accident, is brought up by a stranger, and having a degree in Finance, he is finally on his own feet in his first job as an accouintant. Looking forward to marrying his fiancé Lisa Gabriel, his world is shattered when she dies in a terrorist bomb attack! His equilibrium shattered, he has to find out who carried out the attack that killed his fiance, but finds himself at a dead wall. He can not find out about her antecedents at all in any of the public records. Then an Israeli Yigdal Ben-Levy visits him and throws him into chaos. It appears that his life had been a lie living in a lie which itself is a lie... he finds out the even Lisa was not the person he knew but was a a Mossad spy sent to bring him to Israel. Collecting himself, Jon decides to seek justice for Lisa's murder by going after her killer! The trail he follows is tortuous and filled with danger to life as well as limb and more. Will Jon reach anywhere in the labyrinth he finds himself in. The author D S Kane is brillant in the way be builds the plot, inserting block after block of truths, half truths, lies, action, mystifying events into the edifice of the book, leaving the reader stunned at the finish. This is one of the best Spy novels I have read since a long long time, and though different, I would place him firmly on the same platform that John Le Carre stands on - Well done Mr. Kane. I enjoyed your book thoroughly and award it an unconditional 5 Stars!

Deepak Menon
India

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John Taylor

Outstanding Book.

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2016

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As a former "fellow traveler" I found this book very refreshing. The author has extensive experience in the field, it is shown in his work. This book shows the inner workings of the intelligence community and some of the different agencies. The cross and double crosses that take place to develop and
protect an asset or project by competing agencies.

If the public knew the real stories behind the headlines or events, they would not believe them. The game is a game of smoke and mirrors!

Excellent book and serious.

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Jeff Willis

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2020

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When I first read the synopsis of this book and found the author's biography indicated some personal experience in the world of clandestine operations, I was really looking forward to reading this book for a gritty, realistic look at the world of spies. Unfortunately, what I got instead was a novel with a lot of hallmarks of an inexperienced writer. In particular, plot holes and scenes where the characters say and do inauthentic things for the benefit of the story and not because those are things that person would actually do.

As other reviews have mentioned, there are a lot of issues with the chronology (e.g., the character undergoing training or convalescing from injuries that would normally take months or years in a matter of days), and a lot of time is spent detailing individuals, settings, clothing, etc. that never really factors into the actual story.

Overall, I was hoping for a more realistic spy thriller and was ultimately disappointed to get one the ended up feeling more like a cheesy action movie toward the end.

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Mary E. Munisteri

There are spies among us.

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2018

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This book was not as exciting as I thought it would be, but it kept me interested. I was never slow. There were so many characters to try to keep track of, I lost several along the way. I will most likely read the next one though. May as well keep following Jon.

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Cath McTernan

Secrets and Spies in a Battle Against Terrorism

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2018

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The main character is Jon Sommers, who has just gotten a job in banking and proposed to his girlfriend, Lisa Gabriel. This has caused somewhat of a disagreement, as he wants to accompany Lisa to Tel Aviv, where she wants to tell ‘Mother’ of their news. She wants to do this alone first and says he needs to stay home this time. Unfortunately she dies in a terrorist attack whilst in Israel!

No one informs him and he spends days trying to find out if she’s just left him or if something has actually happened to her. Once he finds the news of her death, he goes into a rage and just wants revenge against the bomber, Tariq Houmaz, who killed her. Shortly after this, an old man, called Yigdal Ben-Levy calls on Jon and asks him how well he actually knew Lisa and then reveals that wasn’t her real name and she was really working for Mossad. Ben-Levy tells Jon that Lisa’s job was to recruit him for Mossad and to tell him what his parents really did before they died.

Jon joins Mossad on a rapid training programme and shortly finishing his training, after goes out on an undercover operation, but they are ambushed and all of the team are killed apart from Jon. The bomber, Tariq Houmaz, is again responsible. An extremely intelligent foe and one who thinks multiple steps ahead. Jon is rescued by another organisation and forced to be a double agent for MI-6. When Ben-Levy finds out, he puts out a kill order on Jon as an example to all the other recruits.

Houmaz has a large plot, in mind, against Israel and Jon finds some information about this plot, while working with MI-6. He has to tell his handler and boss, Ben-Levy, but needs a team he can trust to work with him on taking down Houmaz, once and for all. Millions of lives could be at stake and Jon may have to put aside his thoughts of revenge against the bomber, for the greater good.

A very interesting introduction to the making of a spy, with many twists and turns, leaving you wondering what will happen to the main character next. The start, for me was a bit confusing, as you have to get used to the different locations and time periods, but also unusual names and terms. Jon is interested in the Islamic banking system and is highly mathematical in his thought processes, so can lead you into places unfamiliar to most.

Once the story gets going, you are shown what would happen to a foreign national, who goes and joins another country’s intelligence service. Would he be treated the same by all or used as cannon fodder? His backstory, once you find out about it, helps a little, but you also have a handler that can order you to be killed, just to set an example to others, even when he promised your parents that he would always look out for you!

A very life like story of what could be happening in our current world and the world of terrorism. Hackers and banking systems. The funding of terrorist cells today and evidence of where the money has come from. The ease in which the Islamic banking system makes this so easy to exploit. All in all, a great spy thriller, with an unexpectedly, normal seeming young man as the main character, who goes on to seek revenge for his girlfriend and others.

Once you are past the start, you will definitely get engrossed in the plot and wanting to see if Jon can succeed or even survive till the end of the book. It isn’t easy to put down once the very realistic gun fights and so on, occur. If you want a realistic, modern take on fighting against terrorism and the mix of Mossad, MI-6 and the CIA, all showing up in the action, then this is the book for you!

I received an ARC copy of this book from Hidden Gems and I have freely given my own opinion of the book above. Although I haven’t given the book five stars, due to the slow start, I have gone ahead and bought this one and the next in the series, as I would love to see what the author will come up with next. This is totally set in our modern world and should frighten you in parts, with what the author shows you as reality.

Clare O'Beara

Bloodridge

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 28, 2016

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I like that the story starts in London, nicely scenic; you can still tell it's written by an American as the main character hits the sidewalks, while I noticed a lack of past perfect tense. From one end of the book to another a lot of deaths occur. Violent deaths with exploding heads and the like. Too many for me, but then I am reading a modern spy story and it's not going to be pretty.

A young man named Jon Sommers who was orphaned as a child when his parents' mysterious activities caught up with them, suffers a second crippling loss. His fiancee is killed while visiting Israel. Jon was preparing to work in a bank and use his high mathemathical skills but when an agent from Mossad contacts him and reveals that his fiancee had been one of them, he changes his life. I'm in two minds about this plot point; Jon does some investigating first so he is not rushing into anything, but he's never been to Israel as far as we know, while he doesn't even do the obvious and ask what the pay would be. On the other hand, young men are full of testosterone and love adrenalin, making them idiots. I'd probably ask British diplomatic staff if I could do anything to help Israel, if I were British, as the two countries have aligned interests. Jon just goes to Israel. Any nation's secret service is going to consider a foreign national as pretty much disposable.

Methinks Jon should have asked for an office-based job, funds transferring or being taught to hack or something, but he gets the full whack of training (probably obligatory) and is thrown in at the deep end of an assassination. He has to run each day carrying fifty kilos; that's my weight. I have picked it up and carried it, but I wouldn't want to run with it. Rational reflection tells me it's not just strength training, it's preparing someone to run carrying an incapacitated person. But all the special coated clothing doesn't stop the enemy's bullets and he's the only survivor of a mission gone crosswise between Arab funded terrorists, the MI6 and his own bunch. His own? Well hold on, Jon gets reminded that he's a British subject working for an overseas power's secret service. Though UK doesn't publicly hang people any more as is mentioned. Whatever way you look at it, he's in a corner.

I'm not sure how much of this tale is based on truth, and I don't really want to know. With several switches of location and character it can be a little hard to follow at first; keep going and you'll get in the swing. Involving a Chinese hacker to exploit Russian files seems to be a different track altogether, but it does tie in. Depressing how often such convoluted trails lead back to oil. I liked the tale more when it got to the ins and outs of funds transfers in banks, oddly because that seems dryer, but it also seemed like what the author knew better and communicated better. I also liked when a small team form of their own choosing, and it immediately feels right, rather than the assigned units we've previously seen.

The impression I'm left with most deeply is how fast and thoroughly a person involved in any of this craziness loses their normal life. I see many parallels with another instalment Swiftshadow, which I preferred because the female character resonated with me more than the protagonist of Bloodridge. Action packed, detailed and immersive, Bloodridge is well worth a read. And there's a fun interview with the author at the end.

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Snowy the barn owl

Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 10, 2018

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This is the first book I have read by this author but won’t be the last. It starts off as a gentle read then turns into something else entirely. It has lots of twists and turns especially the end , well worth a read

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Who to trust?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 22, 2018

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A gritty and realistic read with more blinds than Hampton court maze! I found it difficult to put down,or work out just who would survive,or even why!

Clive Robinson

Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 29, 2018

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Good read