Review: Thunderbolt

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The best ground-attack support fighter jets ever built—the A-10 Thunderbolt “Warthogs”—are falling out of the sky. 
The Air Force brass repeatedly schemes to decommission this low-tech jet. They’ve been blocked by soldiers, pilots, and Congress…so far. 
The “Hog” lies at the crux of a high-tech struggle for power. An interagency skirmish that now rapidly descends into a battle fought on a global scale. 
Miranda Chase, air-crash savant for the National Transportation Safety Board, and her team dive in. The high-risk stakes mount in the battlespace—and a secret from their past could make them the next target. Miranda may become the spark that ignites a war.

Genre: fiction

Publication date: December 2019

Mature content: no

Review: Thunderbolt is advertised as a military technothriller and that's exactly what it is. A bit of suspense, several intricate conspiracies and a lot of top secret technology. At some point it's even a bit scary when you think of the reach all this technology can have in today's society. 

Miranda and her team are weird - mea culpa for not having read book one in this series beforehand, but even if I had I believe I would still have the same opinion: they may be geniuses but they are definitely weird. 

   

The first part of the book is so fast paced and gripping you can't just put it down. Towards the end, though, I found the plot turned slightly unrealistic - I'm not convinced some of the events described would actually happen as such in the real world - for something that has way less to do with technology and much more with basic human nature. 

If you love the genre, it's still a great book to read. I plan to go through the rest of the series and I'll post reviews soon.

Happy readings!