The Solomon Effect by C S Graham

This is the third in the series with central characters Tobie and Jax. If you have read my earlier reviews Tobie, Ensign October Guinness, is working as subject for remote viewing. Jax, Agent Alexander, is with the CIA and sent on missions that are particularly dangerous by his CIA director as he has old scores to settle. A deadly conspiracy is the focus of this story.

The story begins with a massacre of the crew of a boat in a Russian port. One young boy escapes as he was hidden from the killers and swims to safety. The killers see the boy escaping and are after him to ensure he is silenced and cannot tell anyone of what had happened. The killers take over the salvaged U-boat and remove something from it. They rig it to blow up so it would appear that this was an accident. Who has hired these killers and is their puppet master?

Meanwhile in USA, the vice president in questioning why he was not informed about a salvaged U-boat and its link to a terror threat and demands someone is sent to find out what is happening. Secretly he has also asked that Tobie do a remote viewing of this U-boat to see if she can get some information. So Tobie joins up with Jax to find this U-boat and unearth its secrets. What is the nature of involvement of a General from special ops and the multimillionaire? What have they secretly obtained from that U-boat and what are they planning to do with it?

People are sent after Jax to stop him from discovering anything. Along with Tobie, he is picked up by the Russian agent, ex KGB, who wants to know what they are doing in Russia. They follow the trail to the U-boat and find that there was no gold in the U-boat as first thought but something definitely has been removed from it. Everyone connected with the raising of the U-boat is being silenced often before they have a chance to tell what they know. Jax and Tobie go from Russia to Berlin to Turkey to Lebanon back to Russia chasing the information about the U-boat’s secret. Finally it takes them back home for the final showdown.

There is intrigue and horror and fast paced action as the Halloween in 5 days’ time, is the deadline for the rumoured threat to come to fruition. Holds interest and makes you want to cheer on the good guys and will them along to save the world. It is always about saving the world is it not? I did enjoy it and strangely remote viewing seems to have got a bit sidelined in this third book.