Former FBI Special Agent Alexander Blackwell is urgently approached to help with a sudden hostage situation in New York. Terminal Rage is a crime thriller that is not run-of-the-mill. The plot is very involved and the character development is very good.
Alexander is thrown in at the deep end and like the reader knows nothing about the hostage-taker. So along with the help of other members of the Hostage Rescue Team, Alexander and the reader try to work out the identity and motives of the hostage-taker.
There are many, many surprises along the way and this novel has an unusual but welcome structure. Woven into this story is a mass of culture that includes the Arab Spring of 2005. The story moves along at a good pace and because of the depth of the plot, it gives the reader a thrill to the very end. I gets you thinking “but, but, but?” as you try to fathom out what has gone on. This story is told with style and the editing is spot on. The whole feel of this novel is similar to the popular BBC television series called Spooks, of which I was a fan. Terminal Rage has a good mix of powerful character development, crime, dodgy characters, realism, technology and terrorism.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Terminal Rage because the whole plot was so different from the norm in a crowded market. It was a pleasure to read and was both entertaining and refreshing. I liked how the mystery of the hostage-taker developed and how mistakes within the intelligence community can so easily be made. Terrorists are not petty criminals doing things on the spur of the moment but plan their actions with great skill over a number of years. The skill of A. M. Khalifa deserves a vote of the top score of 5 stars from me as his novel was such a brilliant read.
Terminal Rage is available as an Amazon Kindle eBook and was written in 2013.
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