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February Reading Recap

3 Books

778 pages

Average Rating 3.7

The Shadow Priest 🌟🌟🌟🌟

The Event 🌟🌟🌟🌟

She’ll Never Tell 🌟🌟🌟

Not that great at all of a month. Still on task for my year end goal however super diasppointed. I will throw out a couple excuses for myself:

1. February is a short month 😊

2. I got a puppy. 🐕 Now let me tell you that you don’t have much time for relaxing and reading when you are chasing around a ball of fur, trying to keep it from peeing on the floor.😵

No earth shattering reads this month just good, solid, entertaining ones.

I want to thank D.C. Alexander and Michael Carlin with Uncorking a Story for providing me a couple copies.

Did you have any books this month that blew your mind?

Book Review – The Shadow Priest

The Shadow Priest by D.C. Alexander

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Thriller, Vigilante

“Awareness and fear of death = destructive yearning for false feelings of immortality provided by myriad sources—power, control, victory, an enduring legacy, fame, a place in one of the afterlives promised by the world’s religions = evil!”

Nate Arkin was once on the rise within DCI, Counter Intelligence. Making a name for himself by running some big Ops, he was taken under the wing of the director himself, and became like a son to him. Then it was all taken away because of “Politics and a failure of character” within DCI and he was the scape goat. He was banished to Four Corners, Colorado and transferred to a bureau of the DOD no one has heard of.
6 years later, Arkin is called to the scene of a murder of a fundamentalist reverend who ran a hate camp of sorts. Killed with a .50 BMG sniper rifle with armor piercing ammo, clearly this was an assassination and not just a murder.

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Book 6 – Colorado

“In the remote Four Corners region of Colorado, Special Agent Nathaniel Arkin, a disgraced former intelligence officer, investigates the killing of a bigoted, vitriolic preacher who was about to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. In processing the murder scene, Arkin thinks he recognizes the modus operandi of a shadowy group he pursued and was on the verge of exposing years earlier, just before his abrupt fall from grace and exile from Washington, D.C. Rumored to be run by a self-righteous, lapsed Jesuit priest, it was a group Arkin long suspected of orchestrating an international assassination campaign targeting charismatic, fledgling fanatics—future Hitlers and bin Ladens—just as they emerged from obscurity, before they were capable of instigating mass murder. Reluctant, but aching for redemption, Arkin resumes the chase, setting in motion a chain of events that could lead to his salvation—or his doom. Along the way, he confronts a question that has troubled him for many years: What creates murderous fundamentalists and fanatics like Hitler and bin Laden in the first place?”