Dark Harvest

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There, he finds himself presented with an unexpected offer – travel to Libya, kidnap a high-ranking officer in Gaddafi’s much feared intelligence service, and return him to the UK. In exchange, Drake will be given everything his needs to destroy the career of the CIA’s corrupt leader, Marcus Cain. My wife and I read this book together (one of us read aloud while the other would drive or do a chore) and we were surprised at the inconsistent quality of the writing.

Will Jordan is the bestselling, internationally published author of the Ryan Drake series. He was born in Scotland in 1983. His works to date include:

I thought the author wrote action scenes well enough but it got a lot messier in between them. The first chapter this really stood out was chapter 8. There were other irritating details, like the author’s overuse of wordy idioms. “Under no illusions,” etc. He lives in Scotland with his wife and two sons, and is currently writing the next novel in the Ryan Drake series. I wante …more Great question! Yes, Cain is very much the Big Bad of this series, and there were three aspects of his character that were important to me:

There are also a few moments were the logistics and science are just a bit too stretched, I normally wouldn't mind too much but just things like the characters being able to zoom around the world with minimal fuss and there is a very awkward juxtaposition of this book being written before Covid-19, but also being very much based around the idea of a Zombie virus being treated as a disease outbreak. Again its not deal-breaker stuff its just sits kind of weird e.g. we know that in an outbreak its unlikely that all countries are going to have the same responses / co-operate with the WHO. I felt this book has been written with a very current world-event narrative that included a WHO medic, a global plague and bio-terrorist created virus. At another time, I might have found it a more thrilling and fictional threat, but given recent events, I did not find the book to be very uplifting. Taking the mystery of the Dyatlov Pass to the world stage, Dark Harvest will make you think twice before climbing a mountain. Or visiting an airport, or going outside for that matter. This book is just fantastic! It kept me up late three nights in a row. I was so engrossed in the story that I was there in the room with the characters, right from the start. If you like your crime fiction to be full of tension and action, then this book is for you’ As for how long the series has left, that's tough to say! I'm contracted for at least 3 more books by my UK publisher, and there are certainly a few more scrapes for Drake to get into along the way. Obviously every story to end eventually, but as for Drake himself... well, there are a lot of places I plan to take his character development first. That's what I enjoy most about this series - watching Drake and his companions change and develop with each book.Not at all my thing, although objectively speaking this book was pretty well done for the sort of book it was. Solid on all accounts with nothing egregiously stupid or gratuitously violent getting in the way of telling a story. If action is your thing (especially, high-stakes apocalyptic-flavored action), you’ll probably love this novel. It has a very cinematic sort of style to its high-octane narrative that works well and makes it a dynamic read. The sense of place, be it snowy mountains or sandy deserts is done very well too. I've never read any of the Ryan Drake series, but if they're even half as good as this one, I am so down. I raise a glass to you, Mr. Jordan/Critical Drinker, because you certainly have a storytelling gift, and I'm thrilled that you've shared it with the world.

With the fate of the War on Terror hanging in the balance, loyalties are tested and scores settled, as Drake embarks on the fight of his life. Only one side will survive… A suspenseful, gripping read that transported me into the freezing mountains and had me guessing to the end.” Nicholas Sansbury Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Divers The thing that was most important for Cain (and I suppose, any antagonist in my books) was to give him a logical goal that the reader can identify with. Cain's not out to topple governments or kill innocent civilians for the sake of being evil - he's pursuing a bigger objective that will gradually become clear as the story unfolds. It's just his methods, and how far he's willing to go, that set him apart from the more heroic characters. My intention is to give the reader something to think about when considering if he's truly a monster. A character who stays behind to hold zombies off, and when asked not to stoically reveals a zombie biteRussia, 1959. Nine members of a Soviet mountaineering team on an ambitious expedition into the Ural Mountains are found dead, victims of massive and bizarre injuries. The Dyatlov Pass incident, as this grisly event came to be known, remains unexplained to this day. Por qué me llamó la atención? La compré por su autor, Will Jordan, un escritor escocés con más de diez novelas publicadas, y sobre todo conocido por su faceta de crítico de películas y series a través de su alter ego “The Critical Drinker”. En su canal de Youtube, en el que a diciembre de 2022 tiene un millón y medio de seguidores, Jordan muestra su hastío por las propuestas que tienen más interés en educar que entretener, y cierta nostalgia por películas de acción como “Terminator”, “Depredador”, o “Golpe en la pequeña China”. Third gripe is excessive dialogue. This is just a narrative thing for me, and I recognize it is a very subjective gripe. So much of the story is told via characters speaking to one another that I don't feel much of an overall narrative voice going on. I feel more balance between narrative voice and dialogue wouldn't have gone amiss here. However, once it got past that it did get interesting. I've never heard of the dyatlov party so I thought it would be like the donner party and it was a little close. The party was killed off in mysterious ways in real life but in this book, a virus infected one of the hikers and turned him into a world War z zombie for comparison.

But this is the second novel of his (the first being "Redemption: Ryan Drake”) that wasn’t exactly a disappointment, but wasn’t memorable, and so I probably won’t want to reread it (which is the criterion I look for when awarding 5 stars).

Reconozco que, si bien no estoy de acuerdo con todo lo que dice, coincido con muchas de sus críticas. Así que cuando anunció en su canal la publicación de “Dark Harvest”, decidí comprarla para comprobar si “predicaba con el ejemplo”.