Solstice Shadows: A VanOps Thriller

Avanti Centrae

Aug 2020 · VanOps Book 2 · Thunder Creek Press · Narrated by Tim Campbell

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DA VINCI CODE meets TOMB RAIDER in this multi-award-winning and #1 best-selling thriller that combines intrigue, history, science, and mystery into pulse-pounding action.

A computer-app designer. An encrypted relic. Can she and the VanOps team decipher the dangerous code before extremists trigger a high-tech apocalypse?

Broad-shouldered marine turned covert agent Bear Thorenson wants his aikido black-belt girlfriend to join VanOps, but software expert Maddy Marshall isn't sure she's ready for a hazardous dark-operations role. When an armed Russian thief escapes over her wrought-iron fire escape carrying an ancient star chart in his hand, her only choice is to join Bear in the pursuit. If her royal Spanish family legends are true, the mysterious chart leads to a treasure trove capable of powering the ultimate quantum computer. Maddy soon learns that the lightning-fast machine will be used by fringe members of the Russian government to spark a global war.

Setting off on a mad dash to uncover the chart’s celestial secrets at a Mexican archeoastronomy site, the VanOps team unearths a clue dating back to biblical times. Racing across the globe through the dangerous bazaars of Morocco, fallen Turkish temples, and Egypt’s perilous Valley of the Kings, the covert group must fight to stay even a half-step ahead of sinister assassins.

With millions of lives on the line, can Maddy and Bear crack the chart’s secret code in time?

SOLSTICE SHADOWS is the second novel in the fast-paced, multi-award-winning VanOps thriller series. If you enjoy smart edge-of-your-seat suspense by James Rollins, Dan Brown, or Steve Berry, you'll stay up late turning the pages of Centrae’s high-stakes novel.

Bronze Medal Winner - Adventure - 2020 Readers' Favorite Awards

Genre Grand Prize Winner - Global Thriller Awards - 2019 Chanticleer International Book Awards

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Jamie Bee

September 18, 2020

Lots of Action Audiobook and Book Review: This is the second book of the VanOps series, and I had not read their first before I chose this audiobook and book at one of my favorite book review sites. While the author did explain some of the backstory and relationships, the action was so fast at the beginning—and actually throughout—that it wasn’t easy to get the full scope of what had gone before, who everybody was, and how everything interrelated as the situation melted down in the present. This book is certainly action-packed. If you are listening to it as an audiobook, I recommend doing so when you are awake and alert as the story moves very quickly and you might miss an important point that will then later lead to confusion. This is not the typical genre I read, but I liked the chase and the hunt aspects as well as the globe-trotting. I didn't feel like the characters were as developed as they could be nor were the relationships between the people fully explored. Maddy felt a little wishy-washy at times; I would have preferred a slightly stronger heroine. This book is all about the action, not the characters, which can be fine if that's what you're looking for (or prefer). For the audiobook, I wasn't wild about the narrator. For a book that seems mostly to be about a woman and what she goes through in the story, it seemed odd that it was narrated by a man. I also didn't think there was quite enough distinction between the voices except for the subtleties of some of the characters who had accents. At least the narrator was good at accents, even if sometimes there was only a hint of one. If you like globe-trotting action stories, you might enjoy this story in either book or audiobook format. I received a free copy of this eBook and audiobook, but that did not affect my review.

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