judefire33 's review for:

Manhattan Down by Michael Cordy

5.0

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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My Review - 

Huge thanks as always to Ransom PR for inviting me to the blog tour, and Bantam Books for a copy of Manhattan Down. 

Id never heard of Michael Cordy before, but I saw the cover and I just knew I had to read Manhattan Down - and as always my superpower of choosing a book just from the cover was spot on! 

Manhattan Down starts with a bang- literally! We meet Nick Lockwood an NYPD Detective on a stakeout with a former colleague who specialises in Dark Web Conspiracies, outcast from the Police she is certain that she has stumbled on something big about to happen, and well being her partner, Nick has to back her up. But things go wrong and Paula O'Malley gets shot and Nick gets knocked unconscious. 

Then we meet Samantha Rossi and her daughter Zoe, Samantha is a cyber genius who designs web security for major corporations and Banks, shes also an insomiac. Whilst New York is under a huge heat dome, people are going about their lives as best they can, and UN leaders are meeting in Manhattan in the UN building to discuss climate change - then at 5.25pm everyone falls asleep in the whole of Manhattan, and the world changes forever... 

Im not going to give anymore of the plot away as its simply superb, think Day Of The Triffids meets Jack Reacher - I could not put this book down, it is an absolutely tension filled, page turning bookbanger, and one of the best thrillers river read since I read Eruption by James Patterson & Michael Crichton! It is incredibly well researched from cyber warfare to climate change, from health issues to Government procedure. If I could read a book like this every week my life would be perfect! 

Michael Cordy has a huge hit on his hands with Manhattan Down, and I will be looking at his back catalogue as I loved his style of writing, and easy to read political thriller based in the future. A Massive 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  star read from me!