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.

The Babylonian Codex by C S Graham

This is the second book in the series with Tobie and Jax as the central characters. Tobie has the ability to carry out remote viewing and is helping the Arts Crime team in searching for the antiquities stolen from Iraq. Jax is the CIA agent who she turns to for help when her life is in danger.

The story opens with the death of the American Vice President while on the World Economic Forum. There is a young journalist who has been trying to get to VP with warnings of danger which are ignored but he is seen in a photograph taken at the time of death. But was this a heart attack or part of an intricate plot leading to something much bigger. The FBI is interested in finding this man and make out that he was a threat and maybe even involved in the death somehow. Nordstrom, a personal assistant to an international financer appears to be directing this action. They also discuss the threat the remote viewer poses during the search for stolen Iraq treasures.

In the remote viewing Tobie describes some old parchments with Biblical illustrations which were not actually part of the targets provided for the viewing. She also sees a building on top of a hill and 2 men in conversation. The FBI agent who has been sent to watch what happens is taken aback by this and starts to kill off all the people there. Tobie manages to escape and run out of the building. A lengthy chase ensues and eventually gets her on to the main road and a lift. She ends up at Jax’s house and asks for help. What has the stolen antiquities got to do with what Tobie saw? Are the documents a part of stolen treasures which were kept secret? Is so how were the 2 men she saw connected to these treasures? And what is the meaning of ‘the event that will remake the world’? 

The story takes them across to Europe and looking for the journalist before the FBI manages to kill him off. How does the richest TV preacher fit into this story or shall I say another major conspiracy theory were the ultimate is to establish a new order of the world based on strict religious principles from an ancient Christian manuscript? Jax and Tobie are also now targets and trying to stay ahead and alive. They need to find that parchment and what understand what it says in order to figure out what the plan is. Like the first novel the plot is complex and all the threads are woven beautifully. This story also is fast paced and keeps you griped with suspense. Scary to think that something like this could possibly be true!

The Archangel Project by C S Graham

C.S. GRAHAM is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris has worked in Intelligence and was involved with the remote viewing project. Candice Proctor has written mysteries under the name of C S Harris. (I have yet to read these Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series).

This novel’s central figure is a young lady who has the gift of remote viewing. I think that the plot is a wonderful and plausible conspiracy theory. A researcher working on remote viewing is using the young lady as a subject for his study. In order to gain funding to continue his research, he sends out a number of application letters with example of the subject’s ability. One such application sends an organisation into a panic. The drawing is that of an old World War II plane and the organisation is one of the largest companies with its fingers in vast number of industries, from construction to defence to oil. The CEO directs her underling to find out how many people were aware of this drawing and where it was supposed to be. Why is this drawing so important that within 48 hours the people who know about it might learn the secret? The drawing of the remote viewing makes them go after the researcher to find out who is the remote viewer. The lady in question, Tobie, is ex-military and undertaking a degree while earning a small amount being the research subject. She is also undergoing therapy for PTSD. She has been injured in Iraq as a consequence of her abilities and had been discharged from the military due to medical problems. The research is killed and his lab set on fire. The remote viewer is now running for her life as the men get to her house and attack her.

A small department of the CIA gets alerted and send an agent to investigate the death of the researcher, for at one time he had been doing this remote viewing research for the military. This agent eventually catches up with Tobie but he finds it hard to believe in remote viewing. To get to the bottom of this mystery and find out who is involved they need to work out what drawing of Tobie’s sparked this man hunt. The men who came after Tobie identified themselves as FBI but surely they would not be the killers. Anyone who is her friend is being observed. She is being tracked via her mobile phone and her car sightings on CCTV. Once they identify which organisation is out to kill her, they have to work out what is the mystery behind that WWII plane. Who all are involved? Is this conspiracy going right to the top? Will Tobie with help of Jax from CIA be able to remain alive and ahead of the assassins? Will they be able to thwart the plot that would have extensive political and economic implications?

A very well woven plot and the authors take time to explain the background of all the characters as they bring them together. It is frightening to think that something like this could exist or could it not? Am sure some of the theories of the conspiracy are much more farfetched than this! The pace is kept up and so it is hard to put the book down once started.