Book Three in the great Breed action thriller series. I really enjoyed the second book and this is as good as that. Action packed, great characters and thrilling story. I highly recommend this book and series.

Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for this copy.

Target Deck by Cameron Curtis
A Breed Thriller #3

This story hooked me early and kept my interest throughout. I did skim a bit over some of the details having to do with science, military equipment, and the like but the story itself was riveting. And, I am thankful I asked the publisher whether this book if reading the previous books in the series was necessary and their saying it was fine to read BECAUSE it was what I would consider a standalone story. That said, I am now rather curious about Breed’s previous books. I am also curious about what Breed will get up to next.

What I liked:
* Breed: capable, lethal, interesting, attractive to women, good teammate, alpha, an enigma to me in many ways…perhaps because I did not read the previous two books?
* Heth: an intriguing woman that may be too young for Breed – or not – but do hope she will show up in future books as she seems interesting.
* Stein: CIA employee moving her way up, on the side of right, willing to do what it takes, I see her in future books, too, and wonder if she will pull Breed into a new mission or if he will find his own.
* The story of The Black Sheep – interesting and intriguing – made me wonder if in fact groups such as these existed after the Vietnamese War ended for the USA…and imagine they did.
* Thinking about how The Black Sheep that came home went on with their lives and how differently each of them turned out.
* The twist that surprised me a bit near the end…
* Who the “bad guys” were in this story and why they needed to be thwarted
* That it seemed real and believable
* How it played into the world we live in now with the threat of a variety of doomsday scenarios – and how to best avoid them.
* Thinking about jumping from a plane – not something I would gladly do – but it is an intriguing thing to ponder.
* All of it really except…

What I didn’t like:
* Exactly who and what I was meant not to…
* Thinking about the “what ifs” of biological weapons
* Knowing that, as in this book, there are people that will sell out for money

Did I enjoy this book? Yes
Would I read more in this series? Yes

Thank you to NetGalley and Inkubator Books for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4-5 Stars

My thanks to NetGalley and publisher Inkubator Books for the electronic copy.

This is Book #3 in the Breed series, and I have read the previous two and I think this is the best so far.

in 1974 Sam Crockett and his 2IC Will Butler lead a deniable ops team - the Black Sheep - mission to carry out an assassination just inside the Chinese border; everything goes wrong but most of them escape capture by making their way through a series of underground vaults and bat caves.

Now, Breed is spending some time in Montana - mostly unreachable - with Sam and Butler, talking about Breed's father's last mission with them in 1971. Sam's granddaughter Heth is there, where Sam has built up a hunting lodge business. One morning Butler is found dead and Sam is missing presumed injured but Breed's army brain kicks in and he's convinced Sam is on the run - this was no hunting accident - Butler was assassinated.

As Breed starts putting together pieces of this particular puzzle he meets up with Anja Stein again where he's surprised to find her surrounded by bodyguards. Something is going on and he's determined to find out what, especially when she tells him that Martin Fairchild, the CIA operative responsible for forming the Black Sheep has been murdered in DC by one of the team which didn't return in 1974.

Breed is drawn deeper into the mission's story as it becomes clear that someone is intent on cleaning house of everyone connected with it.
The solution is probably a suicide mission, but one that Stein volunteers for as well - a mission to save the world - but they need Black Sheep's memories of their 1974 escape through those caves in order to carry it out.

This is a fast-paced action-thriller written through several time periods which culminates in edge-of-the-seat stuff and a final surprising twist.

Once again we get a great action thriller from Cameron Curtis. Target Deck is the third book featuring Breed. This time he searches for his fathers friend after a fatal shooting and he is trying to figure out why. This book is told in two eras, one in southeast asia in the early seventies and the other in present time. Since I am historically interested in that period the book got me hooked immediately but the last quarter was in my opinion rushed and not so well written. The build up is fantastic and I love the works by Curtis. I look forward to the next one. I must thank @netgalley #NetGalley and @inkubatorbooks for making this book available to me and #CameronCurtis for writing #TargetDeck