I received an advance reader copy of this book.

I think Steven Konkoly may be one of my favorite writers. So much so that while I was reading this book I grabbed the other two books in this series.

The action was so well written that I felt like I was right there with the characters. I can't wait to read other books by this author!

I also think this book does a great job of making the characters relatable and funny while still focusing on the seriousness of the situation.

Wow, what an amazing book and an end to the Devin Gray series. It was so good, since it included characters from my favorite Black Flagged series by Steven Konkoly. The book was so action packed, I had to take a few days to read it. Great characters and story line. If you want to read this book, start at the beginning with book 1, it will make the story so much easier to follow. Thanks to Thomas & Mercer and NetGalley for the ARC of this fantastic novel. Steven Konkoly kills it in this book series and Wide Awake is a MUST READ!

Another great book by Konkoly. Action packed, fast paced and intense. A must read for fans of Vince Flynn and Tom Clancy. I enjoyed it and can really recommend it.

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

Another awesome book by Steven Konkoly.
This book is fast paced, action filled, and definitely keep me on edge. Love all the characters and their interactions. It is helpful to read the previous stories prior to this one, but as a stand alone it is a great action book.
These are some of the best action books I have read, and this latest book did not disappoint at all. Highly recommend.
I received can advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

4.5 Stars 🌟

This is one of those series that came out of nowhere for me and completely hooked me right from the beginning. This is a spin off or I guess a better word would be a companion series to the Ryan Decker series and that series hooked me in as well.

So, in this third book things are heating up. Now that these secret organizations have discovered the Russian sleeper cells in the US, they themselves (the good guys) become the targets and the organizations that run the sleepers (the bad guys) are willing to do whatever it takes to get these good guys off the board and boy do they attack.

It starts with a bang and somehow manages to keep up the suspense and the action for the entire book. This is definitely not a stand alone. I mean, you could probably get through the book okay - but you would miss half of the subtleties of what is REALLY going on. Go and find book one and start from there. Better yet, go find the Ryan Decker and start with book one in that series. You will NOT be disappointed.

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this ARC. The opinions above are mine and mine alone.

Having just concluded my read of Steven Konkoly's "Wide Awake" in the form of an ARC provided to me by the publisher, Thomas and Mercer, I feel compelled to begin my brief review with a mea culpa of sorts. I have long been aware of this author's work rather on the periphery of my reading, but, because spycraft per se tends to put me off, I have not previously read any of his work. This was a classic case of letting my personal preconceptions keep me away from an enormously talented author's work. In short, this work, focusing on a Russian plot to instigate a civil war in the United States using carefully infiltrated special forces mercenary units and high tech drones of our own manufacture is impossible to put down. The characters are interesting and well developed, and the action is non-stop. If you like the action/adventure genre with a heavy dose of technofiction served up on the side, this is a book (and a series) that you will want to get ahold of. There are several earlier books in the series, but I have not read any of them, and that did not interfere with my delight with this work (although there are references to other books in the series throughout the text, one can enjoy this book on its own terms). This is complex but not needlessly so and altogether too plausible. In the modern world, increasingly dangerous as it is, resembling Europe just before the Second World War, the events related here require far too little of "the willing suspension of disbelief." It is the kind of story that lends itself to an almost cinematic experience, and I would be surprised if no studio picks this up. Again, it is not for everyone; the violence, while not gratuitous, is omnipresent. The topic, however, rises above the action and provides a lot of food for thought.

Review in progress and to come.

I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review

The next story in the story in there in Grey and Marnie Young series is just as good and thrilling as the previous.
They, and their fellow deep cover US operatives, are tasked with taking out a Russian group being run by the Russian oligarch who managed to somehow escape alive from their last encounter , and is now targeting the US with a series of planned drone attacks using American drones stolen from our own shipments being sent overseas. It all comes to a head when a Congresswoman's car is drone attacked and she is killed.
The action is nonstop, descriptions detailed and easily relatable.
Just the right mix of personal Devin and Maggie time with professional.
Next, pkease??

Is it possible for an action thriller to have too much action? Well, yes, it is, and this one does.

It's really a darn good book based on an interesting premise, but what for want of a better label I guess I have to call the battle sequences are frankly interminable. The exhaustive narration of the clashes between the good guys and bad guys with the seemingly never-ending d-e-t-a-i-l-e-d breakdowns of tactics and strategy in every clash go on and on and on, sometimes for multiple chapters. I found myself skimming to get through the endless, blow-by-blow accounts of battles until I could get back to the actual novel. They were well enough written action sequences, that's true enough, but they quickly became dull and tedious.

With about forty pages less of detailed the battle nonsense, this would have been a terrific novel. Even with all that dead weight, it's not at all half bad.

The story starts fast and continually surprises as the action ramps up again and again. Differs from previous books by the author, but shows his versatility as the characters and plot drive the story.