Cloudy With a Chance of Books

In a dark future city run by the ruthless Chaosonic corporation, a rebel organization called “the Deck” launches resistance missions.  Agent Six of Hearts is the Deck’s best field operative.  He infiltrates enemy installations with ease escaping with valuable intel past hundreds of security forces without killing a single enemy soldier.  Six has a secret only known by King of Hearts who runs the field operations.  Six is a product of the Lab’s Falcon project to create indestructible human soldiers by illegal genetic tampering.  In this book Six is sent back to the Lab to stop their new project to create more soldiers from his genome.

Heath knows how to write action and there is almost no page of this book that lacks for it.  Jumping off a dam in a hail of bullets, fighting a robotic killing machine, escaping attacking sharks, and more. . .  Six is a superhuman and his ability to outsmart and outfight the enemy is satisfyingly clever.  Underneath his cool superhuman façade, he does wonder just how human he is and his meetings with other superhumans from the Falcon project cause him to further question who he is.  The Deck’s secrets remain and I expect another book to illuminate the identities and motives of “the Jokers” who run the Deck.  A great read for fans of spy action. 312p., 2008 (first published in Australia in 2006)