BOOKLIST Reviews AGE OF BLOOD

UK Paperback

Age of Blood.
Ochse, Weston (Author)
Oct 2013. 320 p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, hardcover, $24.99. (9781250036629).

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"Ochse’s novel attempts to blend the military fiction of Tom Clancy with the supernatural horror of early
Stephen King. It shouldn’t work, but it does, thanks mainly to the SEAL-team characters, just the kind of appealing heroes you want fighting visions from all our nightmares." - Booklist

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US Hardback

In this follow-up to SEAL Team 666, a kidnapping propels the team into hell. The daughter of a senator vanishes from a beach, and video footage shows her being attacked by a giant sea creature. But evidence demonstrating she’s still alive sends the team to Mexico, where one of the team members is bitten by the creature. Rather than seek help when he shows signs of being possessed, though, he hides what is happening to him. Soon the mission goes haywire, and the mayhem and bloodshed escalate. Ochse’s novel attempts to blend the military fiction of Tom Clancy with the supernatural horror of early Stephen King. It shouldn’t work, but it does, thanks mainly to the SEAL-team characters, just the kind of appealing heroes you want fighting visions from all our nightmares. More in this genre-blending vein will be eagerly anticipated. -Jeff Ayers