BOOK REVIEW: Air Rage

 

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by Jeremiah McNabb

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Title: Air Rage

Author: Sam Yarney

Publisher: Victor Newman Books

ISBN: 0-9542809-1-1

Genre: Apocalyptic/Adventure

 

When we last left Cyrus Anderson, in the novel Ninety Days, he had just met the loves—yes, plural—of his life. The first love was Jesus; a relationship born of a difficult and somewhat reluctant conversion. The second love was Liddy, his passionate wife, who helped him along the way to God.

 

Now Cyrus has a son named Gordon, a home, and a promise to his wife that his globe-trotting days are over. Until he gets a call from an old acquaintance, that is. Cyrus is drawn into a new global plot, one that is code-named Air Rage. Its perpetrators are bent on bringing down one of Christianity’s biggest media outlets: The Pour Down Righteousness satellite network.

While his protagonists are fully-realized characters, with personalities and quirks of their own, his villains are the opposite. Even though the reader encounters some of the antagonists head on, they seem to be mere faces for one unified, impersonal evil. This does increase the feeling of a conspiracy, but it sacrifices the antagonists’ dialogue and personal tangibility in the process, which seems hardly a fair trade.

Air Rage features fewer technological nuances than did Yarney’s previous novel, but the conspiracies which Cyrus encounters are more complex and the plot is much sharper the second time around.

Air Rage is Sam Yarney’s latest literary adventure. With every book, this writer gets even better. This fast-paced thriller is a weekend getaway in paperback!