Pulse (Chess Team Adventure #1) ★★★★ ½

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 Title: Pulse

 Series: Chess Team Adventure #1

 Author: Jeremy Robinson

 Rating: 4.5 of 5 Stars

 Genre: Action/Adventure

 Pages: 335

 Format: Digital Edition

Synopsis:

Ridley wants to live forever. All he needs to do is find the head of the mythical hydra and turn his science team onto it. When a U.N. Team finds it, Ridley steals it, kills the team and kidnaps one of the scientists. Unfortunately for Ridley, said scientist is the best friend of Jack Sigler

Jack, better known as King, is the head of a super-secret Special Forces group, led by the anonymous Deep Blue. Each member has a Chess piece designation and they are the top of the top and so dark that even a Black Hole looks white compared to them.

The Chess Team swings into action and carnage ensues. Volcanoes blowing up, humans going crazy with super regenerative powers, killer capybara's, a restored Hyda and Hercules. Yes, Hercules. He's real as the hydra. Ridley's Security Group is almost as good as the Chess Team so hopefully between them both, they can take down a creature that is immortal and can regenerate.

My Thoughts:

Why this book hit the spot, I don't know, but my goodness, it was pure action/adventure with a dose of mythicalness that caught my imagination with guns, guts and glory. The closest series that approximates this is Greig Beck's Alex Hunter series. But while that is mediocre and just ok, this was pure awesome.

I know I'm kind of babbling but I'm having a very hard time nailing down why I liked this so much. There were guns, big guns and lots of gun battles. There were human monsters. There were monster monsters. There were dastardly bad guys and super heroic good guys. There was a secret society. And Hercules.

All those things came together in the perfect way. I don't know if future books will affect me the same or if anyone would like this book as much as me, so take all this blathering enthusiasm with a big dose of reality.

Cheers!

★★★★ ½