The Phalanx Code
A Garrett Sinclair Novel
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
From bestselling author A. J. Tata, the latest installment in the Garrett Sinclair series.
Escaping from prison to rescue his team from the manipulations of two tech moguls, Garrett Sinclair learns of a devastating family secret in the process.
Influential tech magnate Mitch Drewson calls on Sinclair and the Dagger team to protect his Project Optimus. An ambitious endeavor that empowers citizens to protect their financial and personal data in the face of increasingly authoritarian federal governments, Project Optimus is a threat to Aurelius Blanc’s Phalanx Corporation. Blanc’s data collection and media application are enabling a global security threat, creating a technofascism that monitors the activity of everyone with a smartphone, tablet, computer, or any web-connected device.
When Phalanx assassin squads overrun an Optimus server farm in California and attack an Optimus coder named Blair Campbell, who happens to be the president’s daughter, Sinclair must deploy a group of warriors to save Blair and protect the remainder of the Optimus team so they can finish their important work—a project that includes deciphering the mysterious Phalanx Code, suspected to be Phalanx’s kill list of Optimus employees.
With Phalanx squads hunting him and those he loves, Sinclair must determine who he can trust while a part of his past comes back to haunt him and threaten everything he holds dear. Nonstop action and authentic detail make this the most compelling, high-stakes entry in the Sinclair series yet.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Tata's lackluster third Garrett Sinclair thriller finds the lieutenant general incarcerated in Fort Leavenworth after the events of 2023's Total Empire. Early on, Garrett receives an unexpected pardon from U.S. president Kim Campbell, but he's liberated by Jake Mahegan, his former colleague on the secretive Dagger team, before official channels can reach him. The rest of the Dagger team gathers in Wyoming at the underground complex of billionaire tech mogul Mitch Drewson, who warns Garrett that his business rival, Aurelius Blanc, is on the cusp of establishing a technofascist "global security state." Coding savant Misha Constance and French cryptologist Evelyn Champollion attempt to break Blanc's Phalanx Code, an encrypted "kill list" of Garrett's inner circle, as he contends with a series of explosive family revelations. The action, usually a strength of the series, is often flat and remote, much of it viewed by Garrett on a screen. A series of increasingly outlandish, logic-defying twists only make matters worse. This disappoints.
