White Jade
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3.9 • 114 Ratings
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Publisher Description
White Jade spins a web of deceit and murder across the globe in a deadly international power game. Nick Carter works for the Project, a covert intelligence unit reporting to the president. Selena Connor is a world famous expert in ancient languages. When her wealthy uncle is murdered by someone looking for a 2000 year old book about immortality, she's thrown into Nick's dangerous world. Someone is determined to take over China and attack America--and Nick and Selena are right in the line of fire.
International intrigue, terrorist acts and the threat of nuclear war form the core of this fast-paced thriller, the first volume in a series featuring Nick, Selena.and the Project.
Customer Reviews
I’m a one percenter
The author is American, a former marine turned author of action/adventure novels, of which there seem to be about a gazillion nowadays. This is the first in a series that now stretches to 21 about “The Project,” a news and liftsyle programme hosted by Carrie Bick… Sorry. Wrong project. This one’s a secret black ops unit that reports direct to POTUS.
In brief
Our boy Nick Carter is on a break from the Backstreet Boys. No, sorry, different Nick Carter. This one is back on duty after months of psychotherapy to recover from his last assignment. This time, he’s tasked with protecting Dr Sarah Connor. No, sorry again. I meant Dr Selena Connor, an expert on Chinese antiquity, and a hot as hell thirty-something redhead, from sadistic Chinese military intelligence types who have just tortured her beloved uncle to death to get their hands on an ancient book he discovered in Bhutan which allegedly belonged to the Chinese emperor of terracotta soldier fame and tells of an elixir of eternal life. The bad guys extort $400m from the old boy, but he croaks before he can tell them where the book is, so they decide they’ll go after the niece because she’ll know, and even if she doesn’t, they’ll get to torture a pretty American chick. Or some sh*t like that. Stuff happens. Highly implausible, extremely derivative stuff. Eventually, it ends.
Writing
Plot: idiotic. Prose: breathless high schooler. Character development: you’re kidding, right?
Bottom line
Another freebie. I note that 95% of reviews for this on Goodreads were three stars or above. Just 1% of readers gave it one star. While I’d rather be the other type of one percenter, a literary one will have to do.