Chasing the Lion
A Garrett Sinclair Novel
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4.1 • 85 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
"Readers are going to love Garrett Sinclair, who reads like this generation's Jason Bourne." —Ryan Steck
"If you are looking for a good night’s sleep, leave this one in the nightstand." —Jack Carr
Parizad rose through his nation’s military to become a lethal soldier and brilliant tactical commander. Now a general, he leads Quds Force, an extremist terrorist organization targeting America and its western allies.
The United States has just uncovered a biochemical weapon developed by Parizad’s group. A viral agent, it attacks a person’s nervous system and renders them susceptible to mind control. Parizad plans to unleash the weapon in Washington D. C. on Inauguration Day during the swearing in of the country’s first female president, turning civilians into weapons.
Army Lieutenant General Garrett Sinclair and his Joint Special Operations team are assigned to stop the terrorist strike. Sinclair pursues Parizad across the Middle East, Europe, and in the U.S., only to discover a deeper conspiracy—a revelation that his wife may not have died from cancer but was murdered. Separated from his teammates and unsure of who he can trust, Sinclair is on a mission not only to save his country, but to avenge his family.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This winning series launch from Tata (the Jake Mahegan novels) takes Gen. Garrett Sinclair, who heads a team from the U.S. Army's Joint Special Operations Command, to Iran on a mission that involves both an unusual bioweapon, dubbed Demon Rain ("a combination between LSD and nerve agent"), and his longtime nemesis, Brig. Gen. Dariush Parizad, deputy Iranian Quds Force commander and the leader of the world's most lethal state-sponsored terrorist organization, who has a personal grudge against the U.S. Named the "Lion of Tabas" by Ayatollah Khomeini, Parizad proves to be a smart, dedicated terrorist and a worthy foe. Sinclair, despite the recent death of his wife from cancer, is up to the task, but an open ending suggests that readers haven't seen the last of Parizad. In addition to providing fully fleshed-out characters, Tata transforms familiar elements, including an Iranian terrorist bent on revenge, a new bioweapon, corrupt public officials in high places, and a hero whose family is in jeopardy, in ways that are exciting and fresh. Military action fans will get their money's worth.
Customer Reviews
First Tata book I’ve read.
I enjoyed every word. .
Could be great.
I abhor books in first person. Worse still is first person present tense. At least in this one we are spared the latter. I will make an exception if the story is told from the viewpoint of several narrators. I honestly did not read this far enough into the sample to make that assessment. What I did read was looking promising but the number of the personal pronouns I and me killed it.
Beautifully complex!
Masterfully articulate