Adam Colclough lives and works in the West Midlands, he writes regularly for a number of websites, one day he will get round to writing a book for someone else to review.
Two bombs go off simultaneously in two American cities, the latest salvo in a war on terror that seems to have no end.
Thomas J Cooper, a troubled ex-Navy SEAL with links to the White House is drawn into the hunt for the perpetrators. As he struggles against his personal demons he is drawn into a deadly game where all the players have blood on their hands.
Outwardly the storyline moves from the corridors of power in Washington to the dusty shambles of an African refugee camp and a conflicted (but determinedly kick ass central character) is a conventional airport thriller. Read as such, it delivers everything you would want from such a book; however Ford uses it to do other and more serious things too.
He touches on serious contemporary issues such as the human cost of the refugee crisis and the conflicts by which it is driven and the often less than clean way the United States and her allies go about fighting the war on terror. Ford manages to do so in a way that is convincing in its detail and informative, without ignoring the necessity of messy compromises, or bring overly didactic.
He also writes with painful accuracy about the human cost of opioid addiction, the insidious way it fills the space in an addicts’ life to the exclusion of everything else. Offering a false comfort, whilst creating utter chaos.
Ford gives his readers a resolution that, creates as many problems as it solves, an all too sadly realistic outcome, setting up along the way a story arc strong enough to sustain a series well worth following.
