This book follows Eric Steele is his efforts to make the world better. Doctor Ai Liang and her team have created a coronavirus called C-62 that is so strong it can kill a person in under an hour. She realizes the good and harm of this C-62 and realizes it must be destroyed. The book is fast-paced as the travels take us to many countries of the world. We also see many conflicts from every angle.

I thoroughly enjoyed this action packed military thriller. All characters were well fleshed out. This is the fourth book in the series and I plan on diving into the other books soon.

Left for Dead was another page-turner in the world of Eric Steele. Just when you think life can't get more complicated, a deadly new coronavirus pops up in a remote mountain top. This book will take you on a reading adventure that will leave you exhausted! I can't wait for the next Eric Steele adventure.

I did enjoy this novel, but it was not my favorite in the Erick Steele series. It was a good read, and the action was top notch, I just didn’t like the the COVID aspect of it as we are currently living it. I know other novels have this aspect, it’s just not as prevalent. Still, I enjoyed it overall. Also…that cliffhanger!

This book isn’t the kind of book I usually read, but I admit that I enjoyed it. It’s a well written story about a Black Ops program for the US government, and the operatives and support staff involved in that program. It does a very good job of humanizing those operatives.

Eric Steele is the main character. He’s well defined and likable, even believable most of the time. He’s a living, breathing super hero with flaws, but he strives to overcome them.

What I didn’t like bout the book is the never ending mention of governmental acronyms, jargon, or the overdone specifics for myriad types of weaponry. It was a veritable alphabet soup, and even thought the book sometimes explained what the acronyms represented and what the jargon meant the first time they were mentioned, it was almost impossible to remember them many chapters later. There were far too many for anyone not seriously involved in military operations to keep track of. At some point, I gave up on trying to keep track of them all and just ignored them, skipping over the parts where they were detailed. I also didn’t like the attempts to work Covid-19 into the story. The mentions of the disease seemed out of place as no one is ill, no one is taking any form of precaution against the virus. It would have been much better to have left the virus out of the book. It didn’t do anything to forward the story or make it more real.

Overall, this wasn’t a bad book. It’s a quick read, and it does contain a fair amount of violence. It also doesn’t clearly tie up the status of two of the main characters, leaving a bit of a cliffhanger. This is book four (4) in a series, with more to follow, but it’s the first in the series that I’ve read. It did fine as a stand alone. Do know that there’s also a bit of romance mixed in with the military operations.

I “won” the right to receive an advanced reader copy of this book from Netgalley in a contest held by the publisher. I thank them and all involved for sharing the book, but all opinions in this review reflect my true and honest reactions to reading the book.

All of the action and intensity we've come to expect from a Parnell book. Fast paced and well written, the combo every thriller fan is looking for. This is a fantastic series and I can't wait for the next one.

I received this book as an advanced copy from NetGalley for an honest review.

This is a story where a Doctor in China is working in a lab and created a new virus that is more deadly than covid-19. But she is thinking that this must be destroyed. Before she can do this the lab is invaded and everyone is killed and they take off with the virus.

Eric Steele gets involved and learns that the attack on the lab is more involved than everyone thought. He needs to stop them from creating a new pandemic into the world!

This was a decent story, and I did find myself wandering through some of it. Maybe the timing and the content is a bit disturbing, but not unexpected. I am not quite sure how I feel about the story,. It was well written and a good book all in all.

Left for Dead is the 4th book in the series by Sean Parnell and the best one yet!!!!
LIes, suspense, politics and more kept me guessing all the way.
Lots of twists and turns , I coudln't put this one down.

The Program, a secret special operations unit, had been destroyed but President Rockland has resurrected the Program when threats of a war with China arise. Toqui 13 is a secret facility near the border with Mongolia that has been developing a bio-weapon. When the facility is destroyed and the personnel are murdered the head of the facility escapes and is rescued by a Mongolian trader. Word is sent to a monk who has a connection to an American agent and President Rockland calls on Eric Steele and his fellow agents to stage a rescue mission.

Zaifeng, a descendant of China’s last emperor, has set in motion a plan to initiate a war between the US and China. As the head of the Swords of Qing he wants the defeat of the communist government in order to present himself as the new emperor. Using the bio-weapon that his followers stole from Toqui 13, he holds a test run on a freighter near Madagascar. A loner named Wheelwright is brought into the investigation of the freighter incident. Wheelwright has a surprising connection to Eric Steele and the crisis in Asia brings them together in an effort to stop the Swords of Qing.

Eric Steele’s father was once a member of the Program before he disappeared during a mission in Russia. While Eric has searched for his father, he has also felt anger for being abandoned by a father who was always away on a mission. Now he has discovered that his former lover Meg is pregnant with his child. Meg was once a member of the Program and knows of the dangers and absences involved, but Steele is determined not to make the same mistakes as his father. This time, however, he is up against a formidable enemy.

Sean Parnell’s Left For Dead is a thriller that moves at a rapid pace. While he explains the equipment and training required for the Program agents, he keeps his descriptions brief and does not get bogged down in details. This makes it an exciting story that will appeal to fans of Brad Thor and Brad Taylor. I would like to thank NetGalley and William Morrow/Custom House Publishers for making this book available for my review.

Left for Dead by Sean Parnell is an exciting action-packed thriller featuring Special Ops agent Eric Steele. From the first chapter the reader is immediately immersed in the suspense with an attack on a remote Chinese lab that develops new bio-weapons. From there, the story moves quickly to the heart of the story, as Steele searches for the stolen C-62 biological agent (a coronavirus!) and halts the devastating pandemic that could ensue.
The action is fast-paced and intense, and the story unfolds like a rapidly moving stream, heading to its inexorable dramatic climax. Parnell’s writing is a strong, manly style, with excellent character development.
This is a genre I rarely read, and I credit the writer for drawing me in and becoming completely invested in the story. This is actually Eric Steele Book #4, but it can absolutely be enjoyed as a stand-alone.
This is a terrific suspenseful thriller on a very timely subject—a new pandemic—that I would highly recommend to readers who enjoy well-written military, special ops, and/or biological warfare suspense novels.

Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley for the ARC. This is my honest review.

This book was I. I didn't like it as well as the others in the series and it was left open in a frustrating way. I've liked the others as fun escapist spy/special forces stores but this one lacked something and felt more partisan than the others.

Wow. I gotta admit- I didn't have high hopes for this but boy was I wrong. This is a fast paced engaging and entertaining thriller with good guys (and women), bad guys, conspiracies, global threats, and lots and lots of action. This starts with a bang when a Chinese bioweapon researc facility is attacked and the only survivor, the lead scientist, finds herself sheltered by Mongolian nomads. Eric Steele, a member of the Program, a secret special ops organization which has been disbanded, is called back into action when a Chinese asset of the USG who was believed dead reaches out to the White House to claim that he's got info on a Chinese plan against the US. Then there's the ghost ship in Africa. Steele and company put the Program back together and set off to save the world. There's humor, there's inside the Beltway stuff, there's pathos, there are two big surprises for Steele. Parnell has a way of writing characters that brings them alive quickly. if some of this is over the top (there's a lot of violence), well, it never gets too cartoonish or graphic. I'd only read one of the books but that didn't hinder my enjoyment of this one so feel free to read it as a standalone. Thanks to the publisher for the ARC. It's a page turner (I didn't want to put it down) that's hard to review without spoilers but know that this begs for another installment.

Sean Parnell is no stranger to writing solid action sequences with gripping descriptions of explosive shootouts and terrifyingly bloody hand to hand combat. The action ramps up big time as Eric Steele is brought back into The Program, a covert outfit designed to operate in the shadows, to combat a Chinese threat against US interests. Unbeknownst to America, a fanatical Chinese Imperialist group plans to launch a false flag operation against US forces using a weaponized version of Covid-19 in order to start a war between the two countries. Eric Steele is ordered to go behind enemy lines to rescue a Chinese biological expert who has the necessary information to prevent another pandemic.
The well-written action is undoubtedly the highlight of the narrative. The relentless pace in the race against time situation causes the characters and the storyline to lack in proper development; the characters felt a bit cliched and corny at times, and the story could have been explored more in depth to create a more engaging villain and a stronger impression of dire stakes.
Left for Dead is an action-packed experience that keeps the wheels turning for adrenaline fans, complimented by interesting twists that are sure to have profound effects for Steele in the future books.

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This is not my first book by this author but ranks up there as one of my favorites yet by this author. I enjoyed being pulled into the story by the characters. I found this book to be fast paced and full of action. This is a well written story where the characters are not only relateable but also bring the story to life. I enjoy watching the growth of the plot throughout this story. The twists and turns had me sitting on the edge of my seat just waiting to see what would happen next. This is a story about Eric Steele and his team. The are on a mission of finding and stopping a group before the unleash a deadly virus. I really enjoyed what Steele and the others brought to the story. They made it fun, easy and entertaining to read. I highly recommend this book.

I sat down to read a few pages before going to sleep and could not look up until I'd turned the last page. It's a somewhat typical story for the genre, but the elements that make it unique are very creative and definitely stand out from the pack. It's also #4 in the series but I had no issue whatsoever with following the who/what/where.
The writing is phenomenal. The pacing flows so smoothly that you barely notice you're devouring the story. Parnell pulls you in so deeply that you just want to know what happens next with the plot and the characters.
This brings me to my only (minimal) complaint, which is that there are moments where there are just too many characters taking up space. I just wanted to know what happened next in the mains tory and we kept veering off with people who had no bearing on that. It was still good content, but the action was so good that I just wanted to stick with that part of the story.
Overall, I cannot wait to read what happens next (be warned that there's a massive cliffhanger), and I'm for sure hunting up the previous volumes.

Very happy thanks to NetGalley and William Morrow for the early read!

I love this series. This book kept me on the edge. Characters are strong and interesting. So glad you have brought Hank back to the world. Not crazy about the cliffhanger ending (write fast, Parnell) but epilogue helped ease the angst. I am looking forward to the next book.