Book Details:
Book Title: The Enigma Dragon: A CATS Tale (The Enigma Series Book 9)
Authors: Charles V Breakfield and Roxanne E Burkey
Category: Adult Fiction, 360 pages
Genre: Thriller, TechnoThriller
Publisher: ICABOD Press
Release date: Oct 5, 2017
Tour dates: May 28 to June 22, 2018
Content Rating: PG-13 + M (There are some descriptive sex scenes but not throughout)
Book Description:
Do the vast amounts of information and technology available hold humans hostage? Does analog communication create a vulnerability?
The political climate in the world is unnerving. North Korea is running missile tests, but where are they getting their deadly supplies? Meanwhile, terrorists are hiding in plain sight, using American technology that is out on display in libraries and museums for the world to see, but are using analog methods to gather and assemble their information. No internet searches equal no red flags which lets the bad guys believe they are operating undetected. But the Cyber Assassin Technology Services (CATS) team is on the job. As Juan and Julie Rodríguez send their operatives out across the globe to track down these foot soldiers also known as Analog Information Mules, they’ll discover the horrible potential treats, and learn about each other along the way.
Mike and Marge control ePETRO, an oil shipping business with offices in London and New York, but they don’t have the same business goals in mind. Marge intends to sell the North Koreans uranium in addition to oil obtained illegally from the government-sanctioned Middle East. But Mike may have other plans, mainly, keeping the profits of these sales for himself. Then there is the mysterious Steven Christopher, who oversees the AIMs, and is working several angles behind the scenes. Steven is the only one trusted by both Marge and Mike, but why?
The CATs team has feet on the ground, with Ernesto and Tyler following two women through Washington, D.C. as they visit the Smithsonian looking for nuclear fusion processes and down the Texas coast where a dangerous package makes its way onto a ship bound for Asia. Jamie, an Irish man with a heartbreaking past, joins the team in Texas and finds not only a new job, but acceptance. George and Summit travel across Asia following the oil and some suspiciously mislabeled furniture. After a rocky start at being paired up, Mercedes and Brayson head to Panama and are watching a previously known Dark Net data center, but Mercedes is soon extracted to help out in D.C. She quickly becomes embroiled in Steven Christopher’s world. Brayson is left behind alone in Panama and, still recovering from a lost love, learns that he can’t truly be a part of the team until he has forgiven himself.
While Juan stays with Quip and his supercomputer ICABOD, tracking his team members and relaying constantly updated information at the team’s nerve center, Julie heads to London. Julie finds herself in the center of all the trouble as she goes undercover in the ePETRO offices. When Julie disappears, Juan drops everything to find her. Quip loops his wife EZ, a Unified Communications expert, to help monitor and control the CATS team movements so that operatives can find the culprits in their different theaters of operation.
Award-winning authors, Breakfield and Burkey, take readers on a new techno-thriller adventure with their 9th book in The Enigma Series. The Enigma Dragon is a chilling journey across four continents, and twelve cities that uncovers terrifying possibilities of what is to become of our world if the CATS team cannot defeat our enemies.
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Charles Breakfield
Charles holds a master’s degree and works for a high-tech manufacturer as a solution architect, functioning in hybrid data/telecom environments. A long-time technology geek, Charles enjoys writing, studying World War II history, travel, and cultural exchanges. He’s also a fan of wine-tastings, riding his Harley, and continues developing his woodworking skills. Now included in people on the move in Dallas Business Journal.
Roxanne Burkey
Roxanne has two passions – working with technology and writing. She enjoys working to drive optimized customer experiences with technology in her role with a high-tech manufacturer. Texas is home for her and her family. When time permits Rox likes gardening, hiking, sewing, refinishing antiques, exploring, wine-tasting, and traveling. She loves to listen to people which often results in odd treasures that come to life in her stories. Now included in people on the move in Dallas Business Journal.
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We know book reviews are important. How do you feel when you receiving book reviews – the good and the bad.
Response: Reviews are kind of like a score card. It takes time for people to do reviews and we like to acknowledge or show appreciation for their efforts. It takes time to read or listen to our stories and most people stop there. For those readers we consider to be over-achievers, they will donate a few extra minutes of their valuable time and place a review giving their feedback. We are most grateful for those snippets of insight whether it is good or poor as long as it is constructive.
Reviews are an author’s calling card. Great ones are extremely hard to get and bad ones you don’t seem to be able to outlive. But in all things feedback is valued, if you are going to improve. Bad reviews are acceptable ways to learn and grow as an author, but if they are vicious or hateful in nature we discount them as folks that have other issues in their life and want to take their anger out on someone they really don’t know and can remain anonymous. We consider these vicious reviews and reviewers just a notch below fake news. These types of reviews bother Burkey a great deal.
We do read our reviews and we try to do send thank you notes for all reviews received. In the case of our audio reviews we often send thank you notes for folks taking the time to listen and review since each audible is weighing in at 10+ hours of listening time. The first four books in the Enigma series are available as audio as well in ebook and trade paper.
Reviews for The Enigma Dragon include the following quotes: “Speaking of characters, Juan and Julie Rodriguez are the very definition of a power couple and its endearing to have such a strong, but mature romance in a techno-thriller like this. We normally deal with strange loners or jaded individuals, but Juan and Julie are both realistic and very in love. It’s a great taste of the real world in the book and for me, this is where Breakfield and Burkey’s strengths come into play.” Alex P
“My favorite member of the CATS team is likely not the choice of most readers. I was completely enthralled with the story line involving Jamie. It is not often I reread chapters during the first read of a book, but I found myself lost in the tale of loss and despair described in Jamie’s chapter.” Thomas Anderson
“…This second CATS-centric installment (after 2016’s The Enigma Gamers) will leave readers yearning for more. Astute prose and an unwavering pace energized by first-rate characters and subplots.” Kirkus
Reviews are the collateral of professional authors. But they come bearing one of two gifts; 1) Elation of your self-worth and your writing ability or 2) Depression darkness based on the dreaded feeling that a bad review suggests should be shoveling horse manure as your chosen vocation. Honestly, we prefer the ones where the reviewer believes we walk on water and catch bullets with our teeth after we put on our capes. J
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