Into a Dark Frontier
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
In the near future, Africa collapses into an enormous failed state, leaving the continent lawless and severely depopulated. For most, the breakdown brings horror, but for others—the outcast, the desperate, the criminals, and the insane—it allows unparalleled opportunity: a new frontier of danger and unlimited possibility. In America, ex-Navy SEAL Slade Crawford, emotionally crippled after twenty years of frontline combat, the dissolution of his marriage, and the accidental death of his son, is falsely accused of terrorism. Slade flees to Africa to build a new life and escape his past when he is captured by an enigmatic American colonel, Gary Kraven, and blackmailed into tracking down a blood cult that is rampaging across the sub-Sahara. Struggling to stay alive and to free himself from Kraven's grasp, Slade pursues the cult across the lawless African frontier. He soon learns that nothing is as it seems and that he is standing at the epicenter of a global struggle that will determine the course of history. Slade must decide whether to fight for his life—or his honor.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mangan's debut reads like he couldn't get the words out and onto the page fast enough, which translates into a sometimes clumsy but blazingly fast and fun action thriller. In the near future, former Navy SEAL Slade Crawford takes a fundamentalist Christian community, the Judeans, into his care and promises to shepherd them to their promised land, in this case Africa. Unfortunately, a Muslim-Christian war has reduced the entire continent to a failed state, and more than 400 million people have died. Those that remain are "the worst of the worst the psychopaths and apex predators." Slade fights his way across Africa, dodging an insane blood cult known as the Penitents until they kidnap one of his Judeans, Elizabeth Brightman, and Slade has to disappear into lawless Nairobi to rescue her from the brothel where she's being kept as a sex slave. The quality of the writing veers wildly between abysmal and impressive, but the fight scenes are top-notch and an open ending promises more adventures for Slade.
Customer Reviews
Great book!
Great book! John Mangan’s Dark Frontier is a great read. He mixes global politics, heroic characters, hatable characters, noble causes and raw brutal realistic while improbable outcomes all woven into a story that I couldn’t stop reading. Bravo John!