429 pages, Kindle Edition
Terrorism hits Main Street America When a rogue CIA consultant goes AWOL from his Middle Eastern post in response to his brother’s plea for help, he arrives just in time to witness his brother’s murder.
For years, Jonathan Hunter and his brother Kevin Mallory had not spoken—until Kevin’s final words, “ … Khalifah … Not Them … Maya. ” Pursuing his brother’s killer, Hunter stumbles into a nest of horrifying terrorist activity by Middle Eastern refugees, which sparks a backlash across America.
In the shadows, Hunter’s mentor, the omnipotent Oscar LaRue, is playing a dangerous game with Russian Intelligence. Neither Hunter nor LaRue realizes that a new threat—the Iranian threat—has entered the game.
Stakes rise as two shadowy players are one step ahead of Hunter and LaRue—Khalifah, a terrorist mastermind, and Caine, a nomadic assassin who dances with the highest bidder. As attacks escalate and the country drifts toward another Middle East conflict, innocent refugees become trapped between the terrorists and the terrorized. Prejudice, hate, and fear vent everywhere. Is this who we’ve become?
Before the country explodes, Hunter must find Khalifah, learn the next terror target, and pray he’s in time to stop further annihilation.
Tj O’Connor is a thriller and mystery author living outside Washington DC. His new thriller, The Hemingway Deception from Suspense Publishing, is out March 28, 2023.
His last novel, The Consultant, is a 2019 American Fiction Award Winner for both Mystery/Suspense and Political Thrillers, a 2018 Gold Medal Winner from the Military Writers Society of America and a 2019 Finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award, the Deadly Ink David Award, and Foreword Reviews’ Indies Book of the Year for Thrillers.
Tj began writing in grade school and continued to dabble through his career as a military federal agent with the Air Force OSI, where he was an anti-terrorism agent and investigator, and through his years as a senior executive and international security consultant. His publishing career began with Dying to Know, a paranormal mystery, in 2014. Thereafter, he published two sequels—Dying for the Past and Dying to Tell, and a standalone paranormal mystery, New Sins for Old Scores. Dying to Know won the 2015 Gold Medal from the Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) for mysteries, a 2015 Bronze Medal from the Readers Favorite Book Reviews, and it was a Finalist for both a 2015 Silver Falchion Award and the 2014 Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Mystery Book of the Year.
Aside from writing, Tj is an independent security consultant in Northern Virginia, specializing in anti-terrorism, investigations, and threat analysis—life experiences that drive his novels. With his former life as a government agent and years as a consultant, he has lived and worked around the world in places like Greece, Turkey, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and throughout the Americas—among others.
Tj was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was raised in New York’s Hudson Valley. His loves include writing, reading, cooking, Harley Davidson motorcycles, working for children’s charities, and hanging with his four-legged companions, Tobias, Annie Rose, Sawyer—and of course, his wife! They continue to live in Virginia surrounded by their Labs, adult children, and a growing brood of grandchildren.
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My Thoughts
The Consultant by T.J.O'Connor is the first in the Jonathan Hunter Thriller! It pretty much grabs you from the beginning as his brother, Kevin Mallory had contacted him, and Jonathan, ex-CIA, arrives in time to watch his brother die plus be shot at himself. Now he has to figure out why his brother was targeted.
Could his brother have been a dirty cop? That is what Jonathan has to find out. Kevin leaves a wife and son, that Jonathan did not know about. In trying to protect them Jonathan is in the crosshairs of the terrorists of Middle Eastern descent. He must find Khalifah, the terrorist mastermind who always stays a step ahead of Jonathan. A man called Caine is a rogue, nomadic man who does the highest bidders' wishes.
Will this terror end any time soon and will Jonathan find out why his brother was killed? In trying to find the answers to this, he also has to protect his sister-in-law and nephew before they are targets of the assassins.
Hatred and fear take center stage in this explosive novel. Impeccably researched and written this is one of the best espionage/ terrorist books I have read in a while. Keeps the reader turning the pages. I read this book in two sittings. I really enjoyed it. I look forward to reading more by this author!
I give it 5 stars
I was given a copy of the book for review purposes only.
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