Chameleon
A Black Box Thriller
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Publisher Description
“Delivering authentic action from someone who has lived it, Chameleon is on target and scores a direct hit!” —Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL and #1 New York Times bestselling author
From filmmaker, memoirist, and former Navy SEAL Remi Adeleke, on the heels of his featured roles in the hit film Plane and in Fox’s Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, comes the first installment in the pulse-pounding Black Box Thriller series, featuring Nigerian-born and New York-raised Kali Kent and the top-secret Black Box program—perfect for readers of Jack Carr, Mark Greaney, and Brad Taylor.
When a mysterious former South African commando, Lucas Van Groot, begins taking wealthy hostages all over the world, it appears at first to be a typical ransom gambit. However, it soon becomes clear that his “Hostage Inc.” venture is manipulating worldwide stock markets and threatening global economic collapse
Enter Black Box, the CIA’s elite, secret special operations branch—so surreptitious that not even the Director of CIA is fully privy to the unit’s activities. Black Box is composed of highly skilled agents who perform with precision:
Chameleons who can transform into myriad characters, Ghosts who are specialists in stealth and surveillance,Wind operatives who are transportation experts, andAberration agents whose specialty is deep cover for years.
Kali Kent, a Nigerian born and Bronxite Chameleon in the Black Box program, leads the hunt for Van Groot. Tracking this ringleader and his cadre of international criminals, the team discovers the South African mastermind is after a much larger prize and the race is on to prevent a worldwide tragedy.
Along the way, Kali will have to face the demons from his childhood and reflect on his emotional path that made him the Chameleon that he is today.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The first instalment in Remi Adeleke’s Black Box military action thriller series introduces a specialized CIA outfit as it attempts to take down an international kidnapping conspiracy. Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-raised badass Kali Kent leads a band of heroic Mission: Impossible types with top-level espionage skills in the intelligence agency’s Black Box program. Head bad guy Lucas Van Groot is an ex-commando from South Africa who starts taking hostages, but as Kent’s team digs deeper into him, his real motivations reveal themselves—and go farther than they imagined. Adeleke, an ex–Navy SEAL who’s since become a consultant on Hollywood blockbusters (and who also wrote a great memoir, Transformed), uses his inside knowledge to capture all the details of modern spy craft and clandestine warfare, discussing the team’s gear and methods at length. Chameleon is an exciting action-adventure that promises to be the start of a fun series.
