Ripper
An Event Group Thriller
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The real Jack the Ripper is loose, and this time he's brought friends to the darkness of the deep desert in the newest adrenaline rush from David Golemon, The New York Times bestselling author of Legacy.
In the tradition of works by James Rollins, Preston and Child and Matthew Reilly, Ripper is the latest in an action-packed series about the nation's most secret agency—The Event Group. In 1887, the British Empire contracted brilliant American professor Lawrence Ambrose to create a mutant gene to turn an ordinary person into an aggressive fighting machine. But all too quickly, Ambrose was found to be behind a streak of vicious murders, and in a cover-up of massive proportions, Queen Victoria ordered the project, and Ambrose, terminated. Thus the legend of Jack the Ripper was born.
The killings stopped as suddenly as they had begun—but not because Ambrose was caught. Instead, he escaped and returned home to America where he and his formula faded into history. But in 2012, a raid against a Mexican drug lord uncovers a small cache of antiquated notebooks containing long-buried instructions to create blind killers out of normal men. Enter the Event Group and Col. Jack Collins, who are desperate to stop one of their most feared enemies. When the formula is loosed in the underground halls and vaults of the Event Group complex itself, brother will battle brother, and for the first time in many men's brave lives they will understand the true meaning of fear.
The next heart-stopping chapter in the New York Times bestselling Event Group series, Ripper takes readers to new levels of suspense, where death could be hiding around any corner on this non-stop thrill ride.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Golemon's seventh Event Group thriller (after 2011's Legacy) is strong on ideas but weak on execution. In 1888, as Jack the Ripper butchers his last victim, Robert Louis Stevenson approaches Scotland Yard with information regarding the killer's identity related to the real-life inspiration for his Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, American chemist Lawrence Ambrose. The scene shifts to present-day Mexico, where armed men in the service of the vicious drug lord known as the Anaconda attack geologist Sarah McIntire, a member of the shadowy U.S. government agency known as the Event Group, and her team while they're exploring caves used as weapons caches by Pancho Villa. McIntire's capture prompts the dispatch of an Event Group rescue team, guided by secret information from Gen. John "Black Jack" Pershing's 1916 raid into Mexico that ultimately connects to the Ripper murders. Golemon throws a lot into the pot, but the action sequences and stoic heroes are strictly run-of-the-mill.
Customer Reviews
Ripper
I have read them all and was not disappointed with this latest addition. Looking forward to the next book. Fast paced and a fun read!!!