Rise of the Enemy

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Pub Date 30 Apr 2015 | Archive Date 08 Mar 2022

Description

Everyone has a breaking point. Carl Logan might just have found his.

For the past 19 years, Agent Carl Logan has devoted his life to his work for the Joint Intelligence Agency; an intelligence agency controlled jointly by the USA and the UK. Policing, espionage and elite armed forces combined in one secretive and powerful network.

When the JIA sends Logan on a routine mission to Russia it should have been simple. But when his cover is blown, he's transported into a world of hell he thought he would never see again.

Something is different this time, though, and before long doubts begin to surface in Logan's mind as to why the assignment went so wrong. Logan has never been short of enemies. And sometimes the enemy is closer to home than you think.

Could his own people really have set him up? The odds are against him. But Logan isn't a man who likes to be cornered. And when you poke a caged animal, you'd better be prepared for the consequences...

Everyone has a breaking point. Carl Logan might just have found his.

For the past 19 years, Agent Carl Logan has devoted his life to his work for the Joint Intelligence Agency; an intelligence...


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"Sinclair is a genius story teller" - Walkerputsche book blog

"Sinclair is a genius story teller" - Walkerputsche book blog


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Superb ! Highly recommend this book.

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This absolutely amazing, fast, paced and edge of your seat thriller was THE book I had been waiting for to be released, since I read book one - Dance with the Enemy and I was definitely not disappointed.
Carl Logan is fast becoming one of my favourite characters and in this book I wanted to mother him, how much can any one man be expected to take in the line of duty? Set in mainly Siberia, Russia, Carl is on another mission for JCI and manages to escape after being held captive in a nightmare situation for three months. But who can he trust? It looks as though there is someone around every corner who wants to betray and back stab him, even his friend and mentor Mackie.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. The author wrote Dance with the Enemy after telling his wife (an avid reader) that he too could write a CPID thriller and boy was he right. The end of this book has left me gasping for the third book in this trilogy, and I am hoping that it will not be the end of the extremely likable Carl Logan and we will see plenty more of him in the future

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Yet again Rob Sinclair dives straight into the action. In his latest book Rise of the Enemy, special agent Carl Logan is captured by the enemy and tortured for three months. He is left wondering whether he has been abandoned by his Agency. And he has no idea who to trust. The story switches between past and present - Logan's current situation on the run and what happened to him over the last three months.

Rob Sinclair has a descriptive way of writing, incorporating facts about his characters without making this a chore to read. So even someone's eye colour or clothing seems relevant. and nothing is superfluous. His characters are so well developed that you feel like you know them personally by the end of the book.

This is a great book for fans of Jack Reacher and Ben Hope. I hope that the author has a third Carl Logan book planned.

I received an Advanced Reader Copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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Great read, one of my first Rob Sinclair novels. Highly recommended!!!!!

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I read this straight after the first book. Although it can be read as a standalone as the fist story is explained well enough, I would recommend that, if you want to get the best from this book, it is better read after the first. Carl's off again on a new mission for the JIA a relatively simple task, on the face of it well set up, but it goes wrong - very, very wrong. He is captured by the Russians, held and quite graphically tortured. Enter Lena, whose task is to break and rebuild him. We follow this in flashback as we already know from the start that he has escaped and the rest of the book is told in present day as Carl tries to make sense of what happened, was he sold out, who should he trust, where can he go as all avenues of assistance slowly close to him.
I'd say that this book is better than the first, the action appears crisper and the book lends itself to the more psychological side of things. Carl is confused as to what exactly happened to him during his captivity, he questions who he is, what he has been made into and, more importantly, the motivations of those who have made him. Is he a scapegoat, a fall guy or just someone being used as a means to an end? Are the people sent to help him really on his side? And it's not just Carl that is asking these questions, I was too all the way through and I was just as confused and followed every twist and turn along with our hero to the climax of the book which I really didn't see coming. Leaving me begging the author to get on with the final book of the trilogy so that I can get on with the story!
Write faster Mr Sinclair.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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Wow, what can I say, this is a cracking spy thriller, it blew me away and that is not an easy feat. This is better than the first book by the author Dance with the Enemy. It has a bunch of the same characters, some new ones but can be read as a stand alone although I recommend you read them in the correct order. There are a few references to Logan´s previous jobs to give you reminders of what happened but they don´t give anything away and a subtle. This is more mature and I enjoyed the flashback chapter with some details in the writing that I loved. This is a very fast paced book that covers only a few days (apart from the flashbacks) in the life of Carl Logan as he tries to understand what is going on and what happen over the last few months. This books reminded me a little of the James Bond series with loads of action, secrets, spies, mystery. Set entirely in Russia I could feel the cold seeping through my clothes as I read. bbbrrrrrrrr. The ending leaves you in no doubt that there will be a third in the series. Thanks to netgalley for my copy.

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Rise of the Enemy – Rob Sinclair 5 Stars He’s left another cliff hanger!
Carl Logan is sent by his employer The Joint Intelligence Agency (JIA) together with Dmitri (a Russian double agent), to steal secrets from RTK Technologies, Russia’s largest manufacturer of military technology. They’ve no sooner entered the office of the man they are supposed to be meeting at RTK, when bullets start flying. Dmitri is killed and Carl Logan is taken prisoner. Three months after unbearable torture, he finds his chance to escape from his main captor, Lena, a woman who gets her pleasure from the pain of others.
Unfortunately, Carl Logan is not welcomed back by his boss, Charles McCabe (better known as Mackie) in fact, there are agents from both the CIA and JIA trying to “bring him in”. Logan realises that these words do not mean returning to work for the JIA or in fact, being able to live a peaceful life. He has no option but to try to stay alive at all costs.
Having had the privilege of being one of the first to review Rob Sinclair’s first book in this series DANCE WITH THE ENEMY” I was apprehensive that he could maintain the momentum of the first book. He has! He’s showed us another side of Logan, a terrifying side of what can happen if tortured. What can happen to the psyche? How can you ever trust anyone again once you’ve escaped from this type of abuse? I finished this book a couple of days ago, but the review couldn’t be written straight away, simply because I was trying to digest what I’d read. Rob Sinclair, you’ve managed to pull off an excellent second novel. I’d just like to ask one favour: Please, no more cliff-hangers. Seriously? I’m supposed to sit waiting for months trying to work out how it’s all going to end! Hurry up with the next instalment.

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This is the closest thing to a good James Bond movie that I have seen in writing. It has excitement, mystery, violence and an engrossing story that is unresolved to the very end. You won't be able to put it down once you start reading. Much of the action takers place in the bone-chilling cold of Siberia. The story is very effective in portraying the interactions between adversaries and allies as people become less certain of who to trust. The title is an interesting play on words, as who the enemy is becomes more difficult to ascertain as the story progresses. After reading it once, I wanted to go back and read it again to look for clues I might have missed. Definitely a candidate to put on your shelf for regular re-reading.

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This is the second in The Enemy Series featuring all action hero Carl Logan. Rise of the Enemy is an edge of your seat action packed thriller. Carl Logan once again finds himself in a seemingly impossible situation. He is a great action hero character and there are many twists and turns in this fast paced book I would definitely recommend reading this book.

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