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3.57 AVERAGE
3.57 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I went to second and Charles looking for a book to read and I grabbed Adrenaline. Thankfully getting the first of the series(not know it was a series) and I was not able to put it down!! I have every Jeff Abbott book now and because of this book I have found a new love in reading. I would highly recommend!
Face paced with a likeable protagonist, this is a thriller that snags your attention by page 12 and keeps up the pace until the very end. Lots of well articulated hints re-emerge later in the book. You don't have to go back and find them becasue every observation or interaction between characters is well articulated. A wry sense of humor with a very slight self-depricating style, I really like the stroy and the book.
I don’t normally read stories like Adrenaline. You know the kind: the generic dime store thriller you see among the likes of James Patterson and Patricia Cornwell. I never, ever, pick up these books. It’s not that I have a discriminatory sensibility about them. Obviously, they’re popular books and sell lots of copies. It’s just something that I’ve never had a compelling desire to read. So, since I just had Adrenaline lying around I thought I would try something different as a sort of palate cleanser.
This is the beginning of the Sam Capra series. Sam Capra is a CIA operative who studies the money flow between criminal organizations. Next, cut to his life in disarray because his pregnant wife Lucy has been taken and his CIA office blows up within a minute of Sam leaving the building. Sam then goes on a rogue mission to find his wife and child. Along the way is helped by a shadowy organization as he uncovers an even larger and more insidious plot that he has to stop. I assume that there will be similar adventures in the rest of the series where Sam is thrust into a dangerous situation and must save the day.
The one thing that kept ringing false was that Sam is basically just an analyst. Yes, he did some undercover work before as a smuggler but never anything involving combat. The only combat training that he seemed to possess was parkour skills. Then he’s under cover and kicking ass and firing guns with precision accuracy Jason Bourne style. This would make sense if his cover persona of the Ex Canadian Special Forces operative was true. However, Sam was recruited directly out of College into the CIA. Where did all this combat training come from?
Also, I really want to put in a trigger warning for rape and sexual assault. Seriously, there was so much rape in Adrenaline it was unbelievable. I think almost every woman in the story was a victim of sexual assault. This bothered and disappointed me for all of the very apparent reasons. There are so many other avenues that could have gone down besides raping literally almost every woman in the story. In fact, this is the main reason this is getting a lower rating from me. It was just gratuitous and in poor taste to have that level of sexual assault throughout the story.
Adrenaline was essentially the same for me as a Jason Bourne movie. I liked it just fine and it’s quite thrilling and if it happens to be on TV I’ll probably watch it for a bit. However, other than it coming to me randomly, I don’t spend much of my time thinking about it. This is a single serving adventure for me. It was fun but not something I’m going to ever be obsessed with.
This is the beginning of the Sam Capra series. Sam Capra is a CIA operative who studies the money flow between criminal organizations. Next, cut to his life in disarray because his pregnant wife Lucy has been taken and his CIA office blows up within a minute of Sam leaving the building. Sam then goes on a rogue mission to find his wife and child. Along the way is helped by a shadowy organization as he uncovers an even larger and more insidious plot that he has to stop. I assume that there will be similar adventures in the rest of the series where Sam is thrust into a dangerous situation and must save the day.
The one thing that kept ringing false was that Sam is basically just an analyst. Yes, he did some undercover work before as a smuggler but never anything involving combat. The only combat training that he seemed to possess was parkour skills. Then he’s under cover and kicking ass and firing guns with precision accuracy Jason Bourne style. This would make sense if his cover persona of the Ex Canadian Special Forces operative was true. However, Sam was recruited directly out of College into the CIA. Where did all this combat training come from?
Also, I really want to put in a trigger warning for rape and sexual assault. Seriously, there was so much rape in Adrenaline it was unbelievable. I think almost every woman in the story was a victim of sexual assault. This bothered and disappointed me for all of the very apparent reasons. There are so many other avenues that could have gone down besides raping literally almost every woman in the story. In fact, this is the main reason this is getting a lower rating from me. It was just gratuitous and in poor taste to have that level of sexual assault throughout the story.
Adrenaline was essentially the same for me as a Jason Bourne movie. I liked it just fine and it’s quite thrilling and if it happens to be on TV I’ll probably watch it for a bit. However, other than it coming to me randomly, I don’t spend much of my time thinking about it. This is a single serving adventure for me. It was fun but not something I’m going to ever be obsessed with.
This is the first book that I have read by Jeff Abbott and he explores how far a man will go to get his family back when they have been kidnapped by a terrorist.
It started out as a normal day for Sam Capra, he kissed his pregnant wife goodbye before he leaves to give a presentation to the Company (aka CIA) but he receives a disturbing phone call before he can even start. His wife, Lucy is in trouble and needs to see Sam NOW! As Sam races after Lucy his life is turned upside down when the building he is working in explodes and Sam sees Lucy being taken away by a Scared Man. Sam and Lucy are branded a traitors and while Sam is in the hold of the company who try to break him to admit he and Lucy are a traitors, all he can think of is finding Lucy and the bundle, and this is what drives him to keep going to survive. He is willing to do anything, kill anyone and work for anyone if it mean getting his family back and away from the Scared Man and what ever this man stand for.
This book was great, and the title really fits the name, as Sam Capra is living off non stop Adrenaline through the entire book. It had some great interesting and unexpected twists and turns as Sam fight through everything to find his wife and "the bundle". At the core basis of this book, it is really about Love and Sam willing to do anything to find his family and this includes "taking care" of the people who are trying to get in his way. Abbott really has a bit of everything in this book, but he does not overwhelm himself which is hard to achieve. This book has some great mysteries and surprises throughout that it really keeps you guessing.
I liked Sam as a character, he questions himself when he has to do something bad, and he wonders how his wife and child would see him as if they knew the terrible things that he had done to find him. Sam is an interesting character as he has had field experience but then became an intelligence analyst when he was no longer needed in the field. I think the addition of the analyst role, allows Sam to see things differently and pay more attention to small details and makes him a more well rounded character instead of just a shooting machine. I liked the introduction of Sam using his parkour (the building jumping people, for a video reference watch the first scene in Casino Royale or check out youtube) training through out the novel. It was interesting to see how this training shaped his thought process in difficult situations.
I really like Milia as a character, she is mysterious, deadly and has no problem with hurting those that she deems has done something wrong and she has learned in her past not to trust the justice system. Though her own thoughts of justice, are what hinder in times when she needs to be focusing more on the mission at hand.
I think that Abbott did a good job in his creation of Simon's organization and character. Simon is a true form of evil human, someone who is charismatic enough to get people to follow what he wants done, and if that is not enough he has other ways of persuasion in order to brain wash those he has either taken in or kidnapped. You never really know what Simon's true plan, motivation or what he will do next, which makes him very unpredictable.
The on aspect I question within the books is realism in of some of the action scenes. This may be due to my lack of knowledge of what is achievable in parkour, though watching some of the videos on youtube, there seems to be some crazy things that can be achieved, I just do not know enough about it to determine if what Sam was doing was even plausible. Something that also hindered the realism of the actions scenes if often Sam finds himself bringing only his fists to a gun fight. This is not to say that Sam does not get hurt, actually Abbott does a good job of allowing his character to get hurt both mentally and physically (on that note look up water boarding), but Sam seems to get out of gun fights relatively unscathed and seems to be able to incapacitate or kill others, while all this shooting is going on.
From start to finish you will not want to put this book down. You will get attached to Sam Capra as you will feel his need to find his wife and child and his willingness to do anything to achieve this. I am looking forward to my next Abbott read. If you are looking for an action adventure thriller novel that has more substance to it than just nonstop action, then this book is for you.
Enjoy!!!
It started out as a normal day for Sam Capra, he kissed his pregnant wife goodbye before he leaves to give a presentation to the Company (aka CIA) but he receives a disturbing phone call before he can even start. His wife, Lucy is in trouble and needs to see Sam NOW! As Sam races after Lucy his life is turned upside down when the building he is working in explodes and Sam sees Lucy being taken away by a Scared Man. Sam and Lucy are branded a traitors and while Sam is in the hold of the company who try to break him to admit he and Lucy are a traitors, all he can think of is finding Lucy and the bundle, and this is what drives him to keep going to survive. He is willing to do anything, kill anyone and work for anyone if it mean getting his family back and away from the Scared Man and what ever this man stand for.
This book was great, and the title really fits the name, as Sam Capra is living off non stop Adrenaline through the entire book. It had some great interesting and unexpected twists and turns as Sam fight through everything to find his wife and "the bundle". At the core basis of this book, it is really about Love and Sam willing to do anything to find his family and this includes "taking care" of the people who are trying to get in his way. Abbott really has a bit of everything in this book, but he does not overwhelm himself which is hard to achieve. This book has some great mysteries and surprises throughout that it really keeps you guessing.
I liked Sam as a character, he questions himself when he has to do something bad, and he wonders how his wife and child would see him as if they knew the terrible things that he had done to find him. Sam is an interesting character as he has had field experience but then became an intelligence analyst when he was no longer needed in the field. I think the addition of the analyst role, allows Sam to see things differently and pay more attention to small details and makes him a more well rounded character instead of just a shooting machine. I liked the introduction of Sam using his parkour (the building jumping people, for a video reference watch the first scene in Casino Royale or check out youtube) training through out the novel. It was interesting to see how this training shaped his thought process in difficult situations.
I really like Milia as a character, she is mysterious, deadly and has no problem with hurting those that she deems has done something wrong and she has learned in her past not to trust the justice system. Though her own thoughts of justice, are what hinder in times when she needs to be focusing more on the mission at hand.
I think that Abbott did a good job in his creation of Simon's organization and character. Simon is a true form of evil human, someone who is charismatic enough to get people to follow what he wants done, and if that is not enough he has other ways of persuasion in order to brain wash those he has either taken in or kidnapped. You never really know what Simon's true plan, motivation or what he will do next, which makes him very unpredictable.
The on aspect I question within the books is realism in of some of the action scenes. This may be due to my lack of knowledge of what is achievable in parkour, though watching some of the videos on youtube, there seems to be some crazy things that can be achieved, I just do not know enough about it to determine if what Sam was doing was even plausible. Something that also hindered the realism of the actions scenes if often Sam finds himself bringing only his fists to a gun fight. This is not to say that Sam does not get hurt, actually Abbott does a good job of allowing his character to get hurt both mentally and physically (on that note look up water boarding), but Sam seems to get out of gun fights relatively unscathed and seems to be able to incapacitate or kill others, while all this shooting is going on.
From start to finish you will not want to put this book down. You will get attached to Sam Capra as you will feel his need to find his wife and child and his willingness to do anything to achieve this. I am looking forward to my next Abbott read. If you are looking for an action adventure thriller novel that has more substance to it than just nonstop action, then this book is for you.
Enjoy!!!
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
This book was intriguing but not riveting. I kept reading to see what was going to happen but found it easy to put down.
This is a page turning thrill ride. Fun characters. Edge of the seat situations. Lots of unexpected twists.
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Nice twists and turns. The last 100+ pages were dragging a bit.