Intense Spy Thriller Exposes Potential Nuclear Disaster Danger

Red, White, and Boom by Karl Puttlitz ISBN 978-0-9844819-0Puttlitz is knowledgeable and technically well grounded. His experience and expertise shine throughout the book. Details are deep, well researched and are revealed through the events of the plot. The reader knows the needed information as soon as the characters do. The mystery begins promptly in the first chapter and remains unveiled even as the death toll mounts and finding the stolen nuclear materials becomes more and more difficult.Special Agent Jeb Foster has been on multiple missions. He is a capable leader with a team of experts to call upon for information. However, the mystery begins when he and his love interest encounter odd problems. A foiled carjacking and ominous threats on his girl friend set the intrigue while Jeb catches up with the thieves. He spends his energy concentrating on the mission but how does he balance a growing love interest on the team while putting up with an annoying new team member? Als
o, Jeb finds him still missing his former team partner, Marco, who was killed in the line of duty.Jeb is assigned to investigate and retrieve radioactive "dirty" bomb ready materials stolen from the former Soviet Union countries. There are more people involved and many with poor or bad reputations and connections. Darla is the original love interest, but plays only a small part. Max is the long term Team member who obtains data, analyzes it and condenses it for Jeb to use. Kaj is the unknown quantity who is obnoxious, rude and constantly annoying everyone. Sorina is the newest person, totally unknown to Jeb before being assigned to the team for this mission. The other players die off almost as quickly as they appear in the storyline.Jeb develops a romantic interest in Sorina and they pursue that while the mission runs on increasing tension and increasing deaths. The romance violates all the standards Jeb is familiar with but he constantly finds himself choosing between the m
ission and his personal desires for Sorina. Now the real intrigue crops up. A mole is evidently involved in the mission. Jeb suspects different means for the information leaking about the team and what they are doing. As the nuclear material nears American shores, he faces a crisis of national security, personal connections and mounting tensions on a team that is held together with little more than his will.The technical information here is extensive, possibly sufficient for a textbook on nuclear stockpiles and waste handling and disposal. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, these materials are too easily available to terrorists, black marketeers and the various criminal organizations operating in the United States, the former Soviet Union and countries in between. Formerly secret information available now about how the Soviet Union handled nuclear waste, secret cities where entire populations lived and died, and the extreme conditions of Siberia and the cities where lead
after lead takes Jeb and his team.The storyline takes many interesting twists and as all the bodies accumulate, some in very grotesque manners of execution, Jeb faces decisions that could sacrifice his team mates and ultimately a large number of innocents.Published by Adventure Street Press, 2011. (www.adstpress.com) ($26.95 USD SRP) Reviewer received book from author.

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