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After years of attempting to discern the properties of an imovable, potentially powerful alien artifact, Justin Boyd, a black ops enhanced commando brings in Dr. Kelley Connolly, a noted physicist to join his top secret team to discover the object's secrets. However, the Americans are not the only ones that are interested in this device. China's CCP is aware of its presence and will do whatever it takes to get the artifact.

Although I was intrigued by the plot, I wasn't ecstatic about the novel's implementation. Much of the novel was "over-the-top", especially in two areas. The first was the character of Justin Boyd. He has been enhanced with advanced technology and genetic engineering to be a "super" soldier. He wears night-vision and telescopic contact lens and possesses super-hearing. He wears protective clothing that can withstand most bullets and possesses an exoskeleton enabling greater strength. He has a super computer strapped to a leg allowing him to have just-in-time information. He had so many "gadgets" I expected to see a propeller extend from his head or to be able to give you a mocha latte from some hidden recess of his body.

Although other reviews have indicated that the author writes well, I did not agree. In all fairness to the author, I'm not sure whether it was the writing or the narrator's decision on how to give voice to the prose, especially when it came to the banter between the budding lovers Justin and Kelley. For example,

She felt Boyd finally pull away and turn his head, making it clear that he wanted to stop the proceedings. "Sorry," he whispered. "I'm a little embarrassed, but I feel like a teenager. I seem to be having touble keeping my engine in, ah...idle." Kelly grinned. "Yeah, I could tell that something had come up. Something big."

Hemingway, the author isn't. I will probably stop this series with this book.