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The Archangel Project

by C.S. Graham



      October "Tobie" Guinness is an Iraq war Navy vet with a psycho discharge. She earned the diagnosis by having "visions" that could prove embarrassing to the military. Tobie has the gift of remote viewing, the ability to see things happening at great distances.  Her capacity for seeing things is something that she doesn’t fully understand and so she has trouble interpreting her visions.  After leaving the armed forces, Tobie teams up with Tulane professor Henry Youngblood to study her unusual talent.  When Professor Youngblood is murdered, the CIA sends agent Jax Alexander to investigate.

It seems that one of the things that Tobie envisioned was a Second World War transport plane, which made no sense to her; but it raised a huge red flag for some conspirators with big plans and even bigger cravings for power and wealth. The symbolic sighting makes Tobie, and now Jax, targets for some evil characters in very high government places.

The pair has no idea why they’re being hunted, but they assume that it has to do with something that Toby and Professor Youngblood were working on.  The trouble is that Tobie doesn’t understand it well enough to know what triggered the attempts on her life.

Things gradually become clear as Tobie retrieves more of her "viewing" and Jax puts it all together with a few known facts.  Their conclusion is terrifying to both of them. What Tobie has seen could signal the beginning of a global war. At this point it becomes a race for survival.

It’s all but impossible to write a book like this, tied to the current state of world affairs, without taking a political stance.  Some of the comments I’ve read about this book say that it has an extreme liberal bias and others mark it as being written from a conservative viewpoint. One even said it was neutral.  Such is the peril in this kind of work.  It’s highly political in nature and deals with not only the morality of the Iraq war but the integrity of an unnamed presidential administration. It’s volatile stuff that is bound to strike a nerve in readers with firm political convictions.

I’d recommend that the reader attempt to view it as middle of the road and understand that it’s pure fiction and try not to read the author’s mind.

It’s well enough written to get very high marks in spite of the risk of controversy.

The Book

Harper
September 30, 2008
Paperback
978-0061351204
Political Thriller
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The Reviewer

Dennis Collins
Reviewed 2009
NOTE: Reviewer Dennis Collins is the author of The Unreal McCoy and the second installment in this series, Turn Left at September. He's also Myshelf.com's "Between the Pages" columnist, covering the mystery genre and related topics.
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