3 out of 4 stars
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The Source: An Espionage Technothriller is book #2 in the Kade Sims series written by Jay Klages. In this book, Kade Sims is working with several government agencies to bring down The Chapter, a lethal militia organization. The Chapter has members in the US Congress, as well as globally, pushing their terrorist agendas to ultimately gain control of highly profitable traded items such as pharmaceuticals and thorium.
Each member has a computer chip embedded inside their brain that keeps all of The Chapter’s information. If the member is captured at any time or divulges any of their secrets, the chip will detonate and they will die immediately.
Sims was once a member of The Chapter, but went rogue when they planned a terrorist attack on the country. Being in this unique position, he must now figure out how to stop The Chapter’s next attack while being chipped but also using it to his advantage. Hence the technothriller genre.
Klages did an excellent job of paying close attention to detail at describing each scene. If he is describing a room, he gives the dimensions and objects inside. When discussing any particular mission or program, he thoroughly gives every minute detail through dialogue amongst the characters.
There was also, at one time, several different storylines going on at once. Of course of Kade and his team, but also of the POTUS and his team strategizing to take down The Chapter and members of an organization in China working with The Chapter. Eventually, all of the stories came together nicely.
One thing that was, in my opinion, a gift and a curse of the book was the amount of detail in it. Sometimes it was a lot of information to process and had the tendency to become a bit dry. There were quite a few action-packed scenes; however, the scenes spent explaining and providing information, far outweighed them. There was also a point in the novel where at times the author would refer to a character by their first name and then turn around and use their last name which was confusing. For example, in the dialogue between characters, the character was called Emory; however, during the narration, he was called Briggs. I had to re-read the text to ensure the author was still referring to the same person. This incident occurred a few times in the text.
I rated this book 3 out of 4 stars. All in all, I believe this was a pretty good novel. I noticed a few typos, but nothing major. I think I would have definitely benefited from reading book 1 of the series to get more of a backstory on Kade. Other than the information overload, I think anyone who enjoys a good technothriller, would enjoy this book. Based on the ending, I do believe there will be a book #3.
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