Strike the Dragon
by Charles Dyer and Mark Tobey
Published by Moody Publishers
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Reviewed by Lacy J. Williams
This book starts with a bang – a suicide bomber that kills Moshe Zachar’s wife. Although they have had some struggles in their marriage, Moshe can’t imagine life without her. When he is contacted by Israel’s intelligence agency, Moshe decides to risk everything to avenge the death of his beloved spouse.
Ibrahim al-Samarri can’t believe it when three men take over his apartment and try to blow up an American envoy. The Americans blow up the apartment and Ibrahim’s wife and son are killed – but he lives. Intent on taking revenge against the country that ruined his life, Ibrahim joins a rebel band with a plan and the high-powered missiles to put it into play.
Rookie FBI agent Jillian Foster is not thrilled with her new assignment in Chicago. After her brother’s death during the terrorist attacks on 9/11, she’s been driven to prevent other people from suffering as she did. But what will she really accomplish sitting at a desk on a brand-new task force?
An accidental discovery forces professor Greg Hanson to call the FBI. All he was doing was preparing a Bible study lesson for the teenage kids he teaches on Sundays. Now he’s being pulled into an investigation of national importance.
Fighting for revenge. Desperate to protect.
As the four threads in this story begin to tangle, will good overcome evil? Or will more innocent people die?
Dyer and Tobey start with an interesting premise and it’s obvious they’ve done their research for this terrorism-themed thriller. But cliché dialogue, backstory overloads and repetitious information make it hard to stay involved with the story. There’s an “unbelievability factor,” too, with the fact that a civilian and foreign intelligence agent would be allowed access to sensitive government information.
But the authors make it work, for the most part.
Armchair Interviews says: If you like adventure and twisting suspense that keeps you guessing about the end, read this book.