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ALPHA: A Black Flagged Thriller (The Black Flagged Series Book 1) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Steven Konkoly (Autore) Formato: Formato Kindle
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***Update: VINDICTA (Book 6), the final book in the core series, is live in ebook, audio and paper formats.***

"BLACK FLAGGED" — Classification given to an agent or intelligence officer who is to be interrogated and summarily killed if apprehended.

***Includes INCEPTION, a 70-page BONUS prequel novella***

For fans of Tom Clancy, Brad Thor and Vince Flynn—a no-holds-barred, pulse-pounding thriller of conspiracy, assassination and deception by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Steven Konkoly.

A FORMER COVERT OPERATIVE WILL DO ANYTHING TO PROTECT HIS DARKEST SECRETS...

Daniel Petrovich, formerly part of the Department of Defense's infamous Black Flag Program, protects a secret buried in the deepest vaults of the Pentagon. Blackmailed into executing one final mission for his previous commanding officer, Daniel's carefully constructed "life" rapidly disintegrates into a relentless federal manhunt--and a "24-style" race against the clock to suppress the shocking truth about his past. To survive, he'll release the darkest side of his concealed identity. A dark side with few boundaries--and even fewer loyalties.

Black Flagged lays the foundation for a gritty, high-octane series exploring the serpentine link between covert operations and government agency politics.

THE BLACK FLAGGED SERIES:

Book 1: ALPHA
Book 2: REDUX
Book 3: APEX
Book 4: VEKTOR
Book 5: OMEGA
Book 6: VINDICTA

SEE BELOW FOR CURRENT TIE-IN'S TO THE BLACK FLAGGED BOOKS.

THE ZULU VIRUS CHRONICLES:

This series is named after the virus introduced (created by rogue scientist Dr. Anatoly Reznikov) in REDUX (Book 2). “ZVC” takes place roughly a decade and a half after the core series ends. I originally designed this series as an alternate universe, where the virus that turned a Russian city inside-out, was finally launched in the United States by the domestic terrorists that commissioned its creation (See APEX, Book 3). The Zulu Virus Chronicles features a mass-scale bioweapons attack against America, perpetrated by domestic terrorists. Several Black Flag operatives show up to try and “save the day” in the series (2nd and 3rd book), including Richard Farrington and the Petroviches.

THE DEVIN GRAY BOOKS:

DEEP SLEEP, the first book in my latest series, centers around a Russian sleeper conspiracy, on a magnitude never previously explored in the espionage genre. I don’t say that lightly. It truly takes the sleeper concept to the next level—and who better to help Devin Gray take down this network than Karl Berg, who is drawn into the plot early and plays a key role throughout. Black Flagged fans will absolutely love the crossover in this series. Richard Farrington. Scott Daly. Melendez. Miralles. So many more. It’s a must read for Black Flagged readers. This series takes place before ZVC.

THE RYAN DECKER BOOKS:

I seem to have a penchant for “hard luck” protagonists who need help, and the Ryan Decker series is no exception—though Decker manages to get through the third book without needing the Black Flag crew. That said, the conspiracy he unravels in the third book leads to a “reckoning” of sorts in the final book of the series, and there’s no way to take down APEX Industries without some serious outside help. Enter…a small crew of trusted (well known to Black Flagged fans) mercenaries.

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Steven's novels are recommended for fans of Brad Thor's Scot Harvath, Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp, Brad Taylor's Pike Logan, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne, L.T. Ryan's Jack Noble, C.G. Cooper's Daniel Briggs, Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon, Jack Carr's James Reece and Mark Greaney's Gray Man.
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    The Black Flagged Series
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Karl Wiggins
5,0 su 5 stelle A Top Read
Recensito in Italia il 25 novembre 2016
The action comes fast and furious and it holds a storyline I could really get into.

A couple of twists, two or three sub-plots and an all-action protagonist. What more could you want?

Great storytelling
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Mike 1349
4,0 su 5 stelle Great
Recensito in Italia il 30 marzo 2016
An excellently written storyline with a plot full of surprises. It kept me guessing the whole time.
The technical and military descriptions are clear and quite comprehensible and the development of the characters are well-thought-out.
I will probably be continuing in the rest of the series.
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doctordevendra
5,0 su 5 stelle Nice
Recensito in India il 19 dicembre 2017
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It’s really nice book. Worth reading. In Hindi we can say “ maza aa gaya””
Petrovich and others performance is too good
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Walter Scott
5,0 su 5 stelle An impressive start, and it just keeps getting better
Recensito in Canada il 2 marzo 2017
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I read the first four novels in the Black Flagged series. Before I had finished Alpha, I purchased the next three. The four need to be read in order, as there are a lot of references to previous events in the storyline.
Up until this point, the best combat scene written by the thriller writers I depend on was the helicopter rescue at the end of A Clear and Present Danger. It was not as well done in the movie. I almost could not finish it, at the time, and I still feel lingering visceral effects many years after, when I recall it.
Steven Konkoly writes like that, or maybe better. Not having been in the military, I am not familiar with the tactics and the many weapons and devices that are referenced. I don’t care. It just feels like it all must be real, and I am drawn in, completely. His characters are the kind of people I want to be out there, making my real world safer.
And yes, there is a Book #5.
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Mark H
5,0 su 5 stelle Excellent Thriller
Recensito in Australia il 23 settembre 2019
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This got my interest from very early on until the end. I enjoyed the action, along with the motivations and struggles of the main characters. Steven has written a book every bit as good as a Baldacci, and I say that as someone who has read most of Baldacci's books. I will definitely be reading more of this series.
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Marshall K
5,0 su 5 stelle Clancy-esque thriller that'll keep you hooked.
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 1 aprile 2015
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As someone who is still relatively new to the Kindle (but a former professional critic - eight years as a magazine journalist spent reviewing all manner of things before I gave it all up to chase criminals) I quickly realised that the e-Book market is both a blessing and a curse. The former because just about anybody can write a book and get it published, and the latter... because just about anybody can write a book and get it published.
The sad fact is that despite what you might be told at school, or at college, or down the pub... not everyone can be an author. And some should never be. And unfortunately the Kindle Market is a bit like the auditions section of the X-Factor - lots of average-to-good talent mixed in with a lot of dross which tends to get in the way of discovering those with a REAL talent.
Thankfully, Mr Konkoly is one of the latter (ie: someone with a genuine talent) and having completed the first book in the Black Flagged series I immediately logged on and bought the other three - even though they weren't 'on offer'. If you knew how tight I was and how much I genuinely struggle with shelling out cash on a 'virtual' product (there's just something about having the feel and weight of a REAL book in your hand) then you'd know that this is praise indeed!
Black Flagged is something that resembles an early Tom Clancy novel - strong, believable characters and a suitably twisting plotline, one which feels that it's backed up with at least a little research (albeit probably not to the levels that Clancy used to go to). There are very few two-dimensional characters in the story, which is refreshing, and Konkoly does a sterling job of telling the story from a variety of different perspectives without going down the route of simply making some characters clearly 'good' and some 'bad' - all of which adds to the realism.
The best thing (for me) though is that Black Flagged, despite currently being free to download, is itself what I've started to refer to when discussing Kindle titles with my friends as an 'actual book', ie: it's stands on its own as a novel, with a beginning, a middle and an end. Sure, it hints at secrets as yet unrevealed and the story ends leaving things very much open for a sequel, BUT (big but, hence the capitals) it DOES end. This is something which e-Books have a habit of not doing - many authors seem to be releasing what is sold as the 'first book in a series' free of charge, only for the story to literally end mid-narrative with multiple plot-lines dangling in the breeze (think: the final episode of Lost, only with less plot-twists resolved). This - to me - is basically a con. If you're going to do this, then don't sell your product as a book, call it an 'episode' and make it clear that if people want to get to the end of the story, then they're going to have to buy the 2, 3, 10, 12 or however many other 'books' you've churned out in the series first. Otherwise, make sure that your story ends at the end of the book! By all means leave a few enticing secrets to tempt people with the next book you're planning to write, but please, please, please don't fob us off with a 'cliff-hanger' ending, or - worse - one that basically comes to the end of a chapter and then just stops. This is the equivalent of tearing the last few pages out of a book, it insults your readers and I for one will NEVER buy the second (or third, or tenth) book in a series that ends like this purely on principal. If you're a good writer, and you draw readers into your story, then your subsequent books will sell because people will WANT to buy them, okay?!
Which slightly off-topic rant brings me back to Steven Konkoly's Black Flagged, which does exactly that: make you want to buy the next book. So grab this one for free, then prepare to shell out for the sequels - books like this really underline the value of the Kindle, as in the past when I finished a good book I'd have to hunt high and low for further titles by the author. Now though, they're just a mouse-click away. Let's just please have more books of this quality and less of the dross!
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bladerunner2180
5,0 su 5 stelle Fast-paced and hard hitting
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 4 luglio 2012
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The Jakarta Pandemic was a good debut novel. In Black Flagged Steven Konkoly shows he has honed his skill further in the meantime. The cast is larger, the stakes are higher, the players' motives more diverse and nebulous and ultimately deadly. Konkoly replaces a simple father stuck in suburbia during a global pandemic with a trained killer and the halls of Washington and Langley.

Daniel Petrovich and the cast of characters he works with or against are memorable and distinguishable, not a small feat on its own considering the sizeable number of men and women appearing in Black Flagged. The action is hard, brutal and unforgiving, and while Daniel Petrovich may be the novel's protagonist he is no white knight in shining armor. Konkoly makes it painfully clear that the world of covert operations and espionage is not a field suited for romaticism. People die, some quite horribly so. The fact that Black Flagged is uncompromising in its portrayal of this reality (without straying into territory too gory for comfort) is one of many points that endeared the story to me. A second point is that it's a decidedly gray novel, concerning its overall morality. There truly are no good or bad guys (except the Serbian paramilitaries appearing in a few flashbacks; those are decidedly bad). Everybody acts they way they do for a good reason. Who is like and why is completely up to you, the reader.

I can't go into the plot because whatever I'll say what spoiler something, but suffice to say it's fast, hard and mature.

One thing the novel also achieves quite superbly - and that's a rather rare treat in that type of thriller - is that Black Flagged is largely apolitical. The very genre usually leans heavily in one direction or another, but I felt and saw none of that here. Now, as a foreigner I'm admittedly not privvy to many of the subtleties of US, but that's what I took from Black Flagged, and that's good thing. I don't want my thrillers to be neo-conservative or liberal or preachy in general; I want them to be hard and entertaining. Black Flagged is the latter.
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