Odin: An Alex Mason Thriller

Written by David Archer and Blake Banner

Narrated by Adam Grupper

ODIN IS ABOUT AS SECRET AS A GOVERNMENT AGENCY CAN GET...

Multiple time USA TODAY & Amazon 5-million copy bestselling authors DAVID ARCHER and BLAKE BANNER have combined forces to create one hell of a thriller series!

Nobody has ever heard of ODIN.

ODIN is about as secret as a government agency can get.

Because within ODIN there is General Operations, which speaks for itself; ODIN 5i, which deals with intelligence gathering, and then there is ODIN 1i which deals in operations so sensitive not even the CIA can touch them. All three are run with an iron first by The Chief, a giant with a gigantic IQ. His top agent is Alex Mason, hard and cool – he's a law unto himself.

But when an ODIN 5i agent based at the US Embassy in Manila, goes missing, and his encrypted laptop disappears with him, the whole ODIN structure is put in peril. Then the agents he was managing start to disappear one by one, and things start to look ugly.

So Alex Mason is sent to Manila, and what he finds there is the growing shadow of Chinese imperialism threatening not only America’s presence in the Pacific, but the security of the whole Western World…

This is a job for ODIN 1i

And for Alex Mason.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Right House Audio
• Release date: Mar 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781636961286

David Archer

David Archer is Professor of Microbial Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham, UK.

Reviews for Odin

[Thomas Sommerville · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Good book.
Well written, well read.
Timely overall, though the assessment of China's belligerence may be a little dated-- a few years perhaps. It's a moving target after all.

That such books are formulaic goes without saying; their purpose is alert the reader, to point out threatening scenarios and speculate on how they could unfold. Here, I suspect the author substituted the setting from the most plausible theater, Taiwan, to one you might consider more marginal, the Philippines. The Chinese are oblique and strategic in their actions, but it's also likely the author intended to encourage the reader take a more abstract, analytic view of the scenario.

Nevertheless, the brutality and terror such an event would engender is brought forward in living color, and the
potential cruelty of the Chi-con operatives described is an unsettling suggestion of what could lie just behind the placid, inscrutible face they present to us.

China is on the march. We'd do well to ponder their intentions and methods so that hypothetical events like this never become inevitable.