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Echelon #2
Empyre
“Raw kinetic energy and blistering pace . . . a thriller for the new millennium.”—James Rollins, author of Map of Bones and The Judas Strain
For decades, Echelon forced peace on the world. Freedom was a Echelon wielded total, if secret, control. In the end, two bioengineered Echelon agents, Ryan Laing and Sarah Peters, brought the conspiracy down.
But there is no happily ever after for the liberators, or for humanity. With Echelon’s fall, a power vacuum is opened—and all hell breaks loose.
Now an outsider in the world he created, Ryan retreats into the wastelands of Antarctica and a life of isolation. But when Sarah is blamed for a series of terrorist attacks, Ryan must return to a world he wanted to forget. Could Sarah be responsible for these atrocities, or is she a pawn in a much larger game?
The answer lies with EMPYRE, a shadow organization at the center of the chaos gripping the globe. Ryan’ s only hope is to uncover EMPYRE’s devastating secrets. The battle will drive Ryan and Sarah to the dark corners of the earth, to a floating, guarded city where the ultimate evil—and the ultimate plot against humanity—await.
Praise for Empyre
“ Empyre is edgy, entertaining, and frightening. We can only hope the scary technology Conviser proposes is the purest fiction!” —Kevin J. Anderson, co-author of Hunters of Dune
“Josh Conviser’s near future is fascinating to imagine—and terrifying, because we might just be heading for it.” —John Scalzi, author of The Ghost Brigades
For decades, Echelon forced peace on the world. Freedom was a Echelon wielded total, if secret, control. In the end, two bioengineered Echelon agents, Ryan Laing and Sarah Peters, brought the conspiracy down.
But there is no happily ever after for the liberators, or for humanity. With Echelon’s fall, a power vacuum is opened—and all hell breaks loose.
Now an outsider in the world he created, Ryan retreats into the wastelands of Antarctica and a life of isolation. But when Sarah is blamed for a series of terrorist attacks, Ryan must return to a world he wanted to forget. Could Sarah be responsible for these atrocities, or is she a pawn in a much larger game?
The answer lies with EMPYRE, a shadow organization at the center of the chaos gripping the globe. Ryan’ s only hope is to uncover EMPYRE’s devastating secrets. The battle will drive Ryan and Sarah to the dark corners of the earth, to a floating, guarded city where the ultimate evil—and the ultimate plot against humanity—await.
Praise for Empyre
“ Empyre is edgy, entertaining, and frightening. We can only hope the scary technology Conviser proposes is the purest fiction!” —Kevin J. Anderson, co-author of Hunters of Dune
“Josh Conviser’s near future is fascinating to imagine—and terrifying, because we might just be heading for it.” —John Scalzi, author of The Ghost Brigades
- GenresScience Fiction
288 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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About the author
Josh Conviser
2 books13 followersJosh grew up in Aspen, Colorado, went to high school in Santa Barbara, California and graduated from Princeton University in 1996. He has lived in Europe, Asia and Australia. An avid mountaineer, he climbed in ranges around the world, including the Himalayas, before giving up the mountains for the jungles of Hollywood where he pursued a career in screenwriting. He is the Executive Consultant on HBO's series, Rome, and has several films in development. Random House published his first novel, ECHELON, and its sequel, EMPYRE. Josh lives with his wife and daughter in Santa Barbara.
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June 25, 2024
I hadn't read the beginning of the series. It didn't seem to matter too much. I can tell I missed some callbacks. Probably some major character development as there wasn't much here. Universe is interesting future tech sci fi.
October 9, 2019
Not into this kind of sci-fi
October 8, 2018
I pick this up on a whim, and both the world and plotting just did not really make sense or track. I plowed my way through it, but really wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
August 1, 2010
Josh Conviser’s debut novel ECHELON was a solid, if by-the-numbers effort: Nanobot-powered superspy Ryan Laing realized that the organization he worked for was actually bad in a Big Brother way, holding the Earth’s populace back from its potential in exchange for stability. He was then forced to kick a serious amount of ass and utilize a practically unheard of amount of awesome technological toys to bring down his former masters.
It sounds great, but the execution didn’t live up to the summary – ECHELON never quite lived up to its back-of-the-book promise. But little more than a year later, Conviser has delivered on ECHELON’s promise with the sequel EMPYRE.
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It sounds great, but the execution didn’t live up to the summary – ECHELON never quite lived up to its back-of-the-book promise. But little more than a year later, Conviser has delivered on ECHELON’s promise with the sequel EMPYRE.
More: http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/sci-f...
April 25, 2013
2 1/2 stars.
Just not my cup of tea. I wasn't pleased with the characters, the language used or the graphic scenes described. I'm no prude, I curse like a sailor and have no problems with blood and guts. But it seems that a lot of the language could have been cut down, and it seemed that the graphic scenes were there just to show how spiffy the main character could be (some of the times). I think it is a great idea for a book and could be very interesting, but this writing style was just not for me.
Just not my cup of tea. I wasn't pleased with the characters, the language used or the graphic scenes described. I'm no prude, I curse like a sailor and have no problems with blood and guts. But it seems that a lot of the language could have been cut down, and it seemed that the graphic scenes were there just to show how spiffy the main character could be (some of the times). I think it is a great idea for a book and could be very interesting, but this writing style was just not for me.
February 1, 2008
Great sci-fi book, second in the series. The protagonists are hugely biomodded and the future is a scary place!
August 21, 2015
Echelon continues... Sort of.
Found it kind of hard to keep the minor characters differentiated sometimes.
Found it kind of hard to keep the minor characters differentiated sometimes.
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