Title: Total Blackout
Author: Alex Shaw
Genre: Crime, thriller, action, adventure
Publisher: HQ
Publication Date: 25th September 2020
My Rating: 4/5
The start of a gripping new crime thriller series introducing ex-SAS trooper Jack Tate!
Perfect for fans of James Deegan, Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney
‘Alex Shaw is one of the best thriller writers around! Fast paced, Total Blackout gripped from page one and didn’t let go’ Stephen Leather
Don’t miss the explosive start to the Jack Tate series.
A catastrophic attack. A country in chaos. A race to prevent war.
British M16 agent, and former SAS trooper, Jack Tate is trying to escape his past when he witnesses a terrorist attack of unthinkable scale. An electro-magnetic pulse knocks out the US power grid, killing anything with a computer processor, throwing the whole country into chaos.
Under the cover of the blackout, a clandestine operation aims to assassinate prominent public figures on US soil. Looting and violence spreads across the country. And Jack Tate’s past comes back to haunt him. As the only intelligence operative on the ground, he is hurled into a mission that will put him – and the people he loves – in immediate danger.
With the fate of the United States on the line, only he can prevent the horror of a new world war.
Perfect for fans of James Deegan, Tom Clancy and Mark Greaney, this is an explosive action thriller you won’t be able to put down.
‘Alex Shaw is one of the best thriller writers around! Fast paced, Total Blackout gripped from page one and didn’t let go’ Stephen Leather
When former SAS trooper and member of MI6, Jack Tate decides to take a relaxing holiday to America, the last thing he imagined would be being arrested by the police before even getting to his motel. His holiday plans of seeing the sights, relaxing and unwinding are completely thrown out of the window when he finds out there’s an assassin on the loose. Jack’s thrown straight into investigating what’s going on and doing it in style.
This is a fast-paced thriller that will have your heart racing. As Jack works tirelessly to uncover the plot, an electromagnetic pulse is used to prevent the Americans and Brits from using any form of electronic communication. With Jack racing to Washington to find his brother, time is against his as the country is thrown into total blackout.
With it being a thriller, there is obviously plenty of violence involved and lots of technical information about the guns and equipment used. The deaths in the story are fairly graphic and violent so if you’re wanting to avoid that, then this isn’t one for you. There’s definitely a lot of focus on the action and it this helps maintain the pace of the book.
A thriller that will have you hooked from the start with non-stop action and a rollercoaster ride of adventure. A gripping read from start to finish, I can’t wait to see what Alex Shaw will do next…
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