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Book Review
Reviewed: 04 May 2024

All Secrets Die

by: Dale M. Nelson

The Firewall Spies - Book 5

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Can the attacks be stopped? Can the leaks be plugged? Before it’s too late?....

With the ever-growing, changing AI and technology, how can they stop the techno-terrorist, a term I’d never heard before, but it totally makes sense. The team is amazing at pivoting, melding old-school and new-school techniques to find the source and overcome.

The storyline borrows heavily from real-life and has lots of tech. I am a tech person and it was fun and scary to read this story. Lots of healthy debate between myself and my tech friends on the possibility of the things in this story. It was so well done. This is book 5 and I wish I’d started with book 1, not that I am missing anything, but I would love to have more of the background of Trinity, Colt, Archon, etc. We see where they are now and I believe I would have enjoyed the ride to this point. I think Colt, Tony and Ava make a good team - though I think Colt is a little unfair to Ava. I like that Colt and Tony are not just hammers doing the higher-ups bidding. They take a moment to do a morality/gut check to see if they can live with what they are being asked to do.

I do feel like that could have been more showing instead of telling but there was a lot to unpack and I enjoyed every moment of this globetrotting, tech driven, action packed thriller.

Thank you to #NetGalley  for the opportunity to do an early read and share my thoughts on the story. 

Happy Reading!

Release Date: 30-April-2024
Audiobook, NetGalley, Thriller, Action

Plot Summary

When a techno-terrorist group threatens to break encryptions on a global scale, a CIA officer must take matters into his own hands to save a world held hostage.

A massive security breach in China. CIA operations compromised in Turkey. Undercover ops breaking down the world over. A techno-terrorist group dubbed “Archon” has unleashed a terrifying new technology that can break any encryption. Humanity’s secrets are about to be laid bare, and global order tilts toward chaos.

Up against a doomsday clock, CIA officer Colt McShane hatches a desperate infiltrate Archon, capture one of the terrorist group’s leaders, and force them to divulge the kill switch. But when Colt arrives just in time to see his target assassinated, he realizes that the stakes have been raised. Someone else is killing the terrorists and targeting their technology. And the question are they friends, or a new, and even more dangerous, enemy?

Aided by the beautiful and mysterious Ava Klein—an operator in a covert organization known only as Trinity—Colt must stay one step ahead of all who want him international terrorists, government agents, police. Even those he once called friends can no longer be trusted.

Because in a world where power is built on a foundation of secrets, unlimited truth is the most destructive force of all...

USA Today Bestselling author Andrew Watts teams up with Dale M. Nelson to bring you another chapter in The Firewall Spies, a technothriller series that mixes the political espionage of Jason Matthews with the thrills and adventure of Mark Greaney.