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"This novel does a fine job of combining a vampire story with a political thriller. I am not much of a vampire novel lover, but I am very interested in reading future novels in this series." -- Dead Trees Review
"Tony Ruggiero's tale is more a thriller than a horror novel or military science fiction. You could remove the term "vampire" and just call them super-soldiers who are used in the war against terrorism. Thus the audience receives an exciting pulp fiction tale where everyone falls into the classifications of either heroes or villains. The irony that refreshes the storyline is that the military is malevolent (perhaps too much) while the villains seem more humane than their human counterparts. They do not kill except when they are forced to and drink either animal or human blood for sustenance without murdering the source. Humans taught the vampires to be ruthless...The audience does not get inside the heads of the vampires as they do Reese, and some questions remain unanswered for the obvious sequels. Still, Operation: Save The Innocent is a bitingly good supernatural thriller that keeps readers on the edge of their seats..." -- Harriet Klausner SFRevu
John Reese thought it was all over - all except for the nightmares.
As he begins his teaching career, John Reese is suddenly recalled to active duty. The strings behind the recall come from a dark governmental agency buried deep within the Pentagon as well as the American political system.
Reese learns that General Stone had additional vampires that he never knew about. But what's worse is that they have been kidnapped or stolen from the secure holding that Reese helped design. Now it is an issue of National Security because if the two young vampires fall into the wrong hands they could potentially attack those that captured them.
Reese becomes the hunter as he is watched not only by his military leaders, but by a government group known only as the Agency. He is bluntly warned that if he fails to cooperate fully in finding the vampires, he may spend the rest of his life in a military prison. As he studies the escape and those that were responsible for it, he recognizes that only one group could be responsible for it and it is the group that he has sworn to his superiors he killed as they tried to escape: The Team of Darkness.
Reese now has a double edged sword at his throat. Does he tell the General that he lied and knowingly loosened General Stone's prized vampire team on the city to feed off of the humanity that they had sworn to protect? As Reese searches for these answers he meets Christina, a mysterious and voluptuous woman that he is taken with. Their relationship follows the twists and turns that the search takes Reese on-leaving one to wonder if Reese and Christina have their own secrets that seek to reveal yet another mystery to be told.
"Tony Ruggiero's tale is more a thriller than a horror novel or military science fiction. You could remove the term "vampire" and just call them super-soldiers who are used in the war against terrorism. Thus the audience receives an exciting pulp fiction tale where everyone falls into the classifications of either heroes or villains. The irony that refreshes the storyline is that the military is malevolent (perhaps too much) while the villains seem more humane than their human counterparts. They do not kill except when they are forced to and drink either animal or human blood for sustenance without murdering the source. Humans taught the vampires to be ruthless...The audience does not get inside the heads of the vampires as they do Reese, and some questions remain unanswered for the obvious sequels. Still, Operation: Save The Innocent is a bitingly good supernatural thriller that keeps readers on the edge of their seats..." -- Harriet Klausner SFRevu
John Reese thought it was all over - all except for the nightmares.
As he begins his teaching career, John Reese is suddenly recalled to active duty. The strings behind the recall come from a dark governmental agency buried deep within the Pentagon as well as the American political system.
Reese learns that General Stone had additional vampires that he never knew about. But what's worse is that they have been kidnapped or stolen from the secure holding that Reese helped design. Now it is an issue of National Security because if the two young vampires fall into the wrong hands they could potentially attack those that captured them.
Reese becomes the hunter as he is watched not only by his military leaders, but by a government group known only as the Agency. He is bluntly warned that if he fails to cooperate fully in finding the vampires, he may spend the rest of his life in a military prison. As he studies the escape and those that were responsible for it, he recognizes that only one group could be responsible for it and it is the group that he has sworn to his superiors he killed as they tried to escape: The Team of Darkness.
Reese now has a double edged sword at his throat. Does he tell the General that he lied and knowingly loosened General Stone's prized vampire team on the city to feed off of the humanity that they had sworn to protect? As Reese searches for these answers he meets Christina, a mysterious and voluptuous woman that he is taken with. Their relationship follows the twists and turns that the search takes Reese on-leaving one to wonder if Reese and Christina have their own secrets that seek to reveal yet another mystery to be told.
