Sharon Broome, The Sentinel Athlete Conspiracy (Inspiring Publishers 2024)
High-octane scientific thriller
Michael’s jeep blasts through the security gate at a private airstrip in Morocco. Two jeeps are after him, and they have automatic rifles. Bullets are flying, clinking off the planes in the hangar, big explosion, and Michael is burned to a crisp.
The man watching the drone video says, ‘Get me another list of top athletes.’
One year later, in Brisbane, top archer Carmen is in a bad car accident. The man in the Armani suit says, ‘It’s done.’ Five other top athletes across the world have had equally devastating accidents.
The International Sports and Wellness Centre in Morocco seems to offer miraculous recovery and retraining rates, but Dr. Andrew Christian’s ‘Sentinel Serum’ may be more than a miracle drug. Just what is behind the ‘Restricted Access’ door? Dr. Christian is a dastardly mad-scientist villain with evil plans for world domination.
The action and the violence ramps up very quickly, as Carmen and the other athletes are roped into a nefarious conspiracy. The CIA is involved, too. They must thwart the doctor’s plans to make it out alive.
Biochemical engineering provides a thrilling subject matter. It opens with a bang and quickly escalates to high-octane, super-violent action, with scarcely a moment to sleep or eat lunch, hardly a moment to breathe.
The fate of ‘the Facility’ as well as the athletes’ lives are in the balance in a heart-throbbing ticking-time-bomb (literally) plot. The science bits seem (to me, at least, not being a biochemical engineer) to have been pains-takingly researched. I kept saying, ‘OMG’ as I read.
Contains some pretty gory injuries and pretty shocking violence. Would make a fantastic James-Bond-Bruce-Willis-style Hollywood action movie.
Susie Helme 
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