The Wrecking Crew Taylor Zajonc

The book starts with a plane full of scientists being shot down whilst they are investigating a mysterious red kelp off the Horn of Africa, continues with a prison escape, luxury yatch theft and that’s just the first few pages.

Are the uber-rich causing the pollution in the gulf fro their mega-structure in the sea? One mans greed and vision has created a land that belongs to no kingdom but is it working as well as he thinks it is.

Dr Fatima Nassir was that crashed. Her son breaks Jonah Blackwell out of prison to help him find justice for his mother and to recover her research.

Blackwell is one of the most complex characters of have encountered recently in a book, but what a character a cross between Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and Robert Ludlum’s Jason Bourne. That alone is worth reading this book for.

Every good adventure thriller needs a bad guy, and it’s easy to dislike Charles Bettencourt from the start. Rich, obnoxious, corrupt and outright nasty, the perfect villain

This book has everything a Clive Cussler fan would like, at times I forgot I was reading a book and was transported back to the boys own tales of the Warlord comic I used to read in the 60’s and 70’s.

Did I like this book? Yes.

Would I recommend this book? Yes but, I think it’s a male thing, and without being sexist I really don’t see many of my female friends liking it.

Mr Zajonc I look forward to your next book.

This was an interesting story with nicely woven plots and action mixed with some comedic moments (at least for me). The characters had interested, dimensional personalities that keep you engaged.

This is a rollicking adventure set in, and off the coast of Somalia, in the near future. The story takes place on a luxury speedboat, an offshore super city and a submarine - with characters including a Moroccan doctor, his mother, a Texan engineer and dis-credited spy's son....

Its a break neck story with enough twists to keep you turning the pages.

Worth a read.

This is a story about a man who was sprung from prison. Helped by accomplices he takes on a huge corporation which has corrupt dealings. This man is a Rambo/Arnie type of guy. He is seemingly familiar with many types of weapon and can even command a submarine with a rookie crew! It is a fast paced action-all-the-way read. Implausible but quite entertaining

THE WRECKING CREW by Taylor Zajonc is a non stop action story featuring Jonah Blackwell,, an former prisoner who had been all but forgotten, who is freed by a doctor looking to rescue his mother who was doing some oceanographer research, but disappeared. The story jumps right in, quickly setting up the plot and throwing Jonah is a boat to make the rescue attempt. Jonah is a very likable character, he reminds me of a modern day Han Solo, just trade space for water and our Star Wars time for out present . The story doesn't slow down, with deviations from plot progression only to quickly introduce and understand new characters. In the end, Zajonc has created a motley band of people who now have a sub and seem to yearn for another adventure and I, for one, look to Zajonc for another book to tell the story of that adventure.
There are shades of the movies Hunt for Red October and U-571 and the suspense compares to them. I will say that there are a lot of submarine and boat terms in the book, but having only a passable knowledge of boating and submarine lingo, I still could keep up with the story.