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Reviewed by Stephen Christopher for Readers' Favorite
NSA agent Alton Blackwell, his wife Mallory, and his team of experts arrive in Seoul just before the Olympic Games as they’ve received reliable intel that the North Koreans are going to launch an attack on the south. The challenge for the Blackwell team is that nobody is sure exactly what the attack will be. North Korea is well-known for nuclear weapons development, so that must be why they’re attacking a plant near Seoul, right? What would they gain if they attacked the Olympic Village, though? What if their goal is something else, something nobody could imagine? There’s so much going on in When the Killing Starts—book eight of the Blackwell Files—by Steven F. Freeman, and the surprises keep coming.
What I love about Steven F. Freeman’s writing is that he keeps you guessing; just when you think you’ve figured it all out, he throws another curveball at you. This clever style of writing keeps the reader on their toes throughout. He’s also a visionary. Despite the book being written in 2016, in it there’s a tech function that Alton’s programs perform that, eight years later, AI is only just starting to get right. Everyone loves a flawed hero. Alton suffers from a nagging leg injury sustained in Afghanistan (in the first book of the series), and it still slows him down, making him more relatable to the reader. The action in When the Killing Starts begins on page one and never lets up. This novel can be read as a stand-alone story. Action/thriller readers will love this book as much as I did.
