Hi, everyone!
Today I am sharing my Feature Post and Book Review for CLEOPATRA’S VENDETTA (A Stryker Thriller Book #1) by Avanti Centrae on this Black Tide Book Tour.
Below you will find a book description, my book review, the author’s bio and the author’s social media links. Enjoy!
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Book Description
Royal secrets. Epic lies. This “dangerous” and controversial standalone thriller from international bestselling VanOps author Avanti Centrae is a fast-paced bombshell of a story about truth and courage.
Born a goddess, Cleopatra died a prisoner. But the cobra’s deadly kiss was just the beginning…
Global Thriller First Place Winner — Chanticleer International Book Awards
Runner Up — Paris Book Festival
Bari, Italy, present day. Think tank Special Ops leader Timothy Stryker and his wife Angie, a self-made CEO, haven’t exactly been seeing eye-to-eye. They take a much-needed Italian holiday, but it comes to a shocking end when Angie and their daughter are kidnapped.
Still raw from the death of their infant son, Stryker is desperate to rescue Angie and reconcile their differences. As he works to locate the captors’ lair, he discovers the kidnappers are behind a string of recent assassinations and attempting another high-profile hit in only seven days. But when he learns their plans for his only remaining child, the scab on his heart tears open and blood begins to spill.
Working from inside her brutal captors’ high-security compound, Angie realizes the cabal is hiding an ancient secret using modern propaganda techniques. And as Stryker races hitmen across India, Egypt, and Greece to thwart the next assassination and save his family, he has to connect a series of deadly dots tracing all the way back to the time of Cleopatra. Ultimately, the estranged pair must shake the deeply buried pillars of western civilization to save their four-year-old daughter from an unspeakable fate.
Fascinating, provocative, original, and timely, Cleopatra’s Vendetta is a sizzling novel that paints a disturbing picture of some of the most intricate issues that have plagued humanity’s past…challenges that color our days and provide the blueprint for our future.
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My Book Review
RATING: 5 out of 5 Stars
CLEOPATRA’S VENDETTA (A Stryker Thriller Book #1) by Avanti Centrae is an edge-of-your-seat contemporary thriller full of history and conspiracies featuring a high-tech, highly trained team of military misfits. I read this first book in hopefully a future series very quickly and was unable to put it down.
Tim Stryker, his wife, Angie and their young daughter, Harper are on a much-needed vacation in Italy. It has been a year since the death of their infant son from brain cancer and the family is still suffering. While Stryker has been using meditation and avoidance to deal with his pain, Angie has been abusing alcohol to bury her pain.
Stryker is the lead commander of a group of specialized military operatives who are all highly intelligent, but all also have some reason they do not fit into regular service. He is called away from the family vacation when intel is uncovered that another head of state is marked for assassination which has become a string of assassinations no one has been able to stop.
While away, Stryker’s wife and daughter are kidnapped. They are held in an island prison with many other women being sold into a sex-trafficking operation, and while Angie knows Stryker will come for them, she is CIA trained and determined to protect Harper. While she looks for a way to escape, she uncovers a conspiracy that ties the current assassinations to the historical Cleopatra and her plot to destroy her enemies even after her suicide.
I loved how this exciting thriller weaves two intertwining historical and present-day cabals in an eternal battle and search for treasure and power. The plot is a mystery/conspiracy thriller with plenty of action that blends fact and fiction seamlessly and leaves the reader contemplating many beliefs and mores in our current society. Stryker and his team are all well drawn special ops warriors and I enjoyed the twist of each having some flaw that makes them unable to work on a regular team but binds them all together perfectly.
I highly recommend this exciting thriller!
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About the Author
International multi-award-winning and Amazon #1 bestselling author who blends intrigue, history, science, and mystery into pulse-pounding action thrillers.
Avanti Centrae is the author of the international multi-award-winning VANOPS thriller series. An instant Barnes and Noble Nook bestseller, THE LOST POWER took home a genre grand prize ribbon at the Chanticleer International Book Awards, a bronze medal at the Wishing Shelf Awards, and an Honorable Mention at the Hollywood Book Festival. SOLSTICE SHADOWS won a bronze at the competitive Readers’ Favorite Awards, the Global Thrillers Genre Grand Prize at the most recent Chanticleer Awards, and was a #1 Amazon bestseller in both the U.S and Canada. Her father served as a U.S. marine corporal in Okinawa, gathering military intelligence during the first decade after the Korean War. Her work has been compared to that of James Rollins, Steve Berry, Dan Brown, and Clive Cussler but has a voice all its own.
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