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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Robert James Saniscalchi's Andromidus, President Jameson enters the last year of his presidency guarding Magnanotron, an American force-field technology that has already changed military defense. When leaked battlefield images expose its existence, Chinese Premier Lu Cho turns that discovery into a covert campaign to steal the science behind it. At Devcom in Maryland, Peter Androvski develops Andromidus, a learning microprocessor that gives American defense systems a new kind of artificial intelligence. As cartel operations tied to Chinese money draw U.S. forces into domestic missions, China builds Toknowa, an invasive AI meant to breach American research. The danger moves to X-Star, a Texas facility where Magnanotron missile work is underway, and Jameson must decide how far to go before America’s most guarded invention changes hands.
Robert James Saniscalchi’s Andromidus is brilliant near-future military fiction. The author does an excellent job of ratcheting up the suspense, whether it is Tex Larson leading Delta Team through the snow and into the cartel, or Chinese spy Kim Fongwa storming a weapons plant to steal missile data. The author writes great characters, and is even able to make a president likeable. Imagine that! Still, the most fascinating of the bunch to me are the smaller players who are just as fleshed out. I love when Darious Patel, a government scientist, gets supremely excited over a rocket demonstration. The settings feel textured and lived in, and the author breathes life into spaces with cinematic panache, from a White House den where Jameson sits with bourbon and presidential anxiety, to a Florida base near the Everglades, complete with mined grounds and a hidden drug lab. Well-written and immersive, readers who enjoy fast-paced thrillers will adore this book.
