Dark State (Jason Trapp Thrillers Book 1)

Won’t be my last by this author!
My first by Jack Slater….Won’t be my last. Easy read…Believable plot and action…1st rate. Well Done Jack!!!

Reacher — Trapp Two of a kind?
I’ve read the first 3 in the Jason Trapp series. i agree with others, they’re mostly a pretty fast-paced, easy read. I’ve read each one in about a day– of course, that’s without sleep, or just a short cat nap, and doing almost nothing else.Jason reminds me of Jack Reacher in multiple ways: Both are loners yet loyal to those they care about & respect. They are patriots. They have a deep sense of responsibility to & for others and their country. They’re both large men, which can be positive or negative, depending on the circumstances or situations they find themselves in. Neither really likes authority figures but due to their military backgrounds, will follow orders–usually. They both have a moral compass and we’re invited along as they struggle to figure where a given action might lie within their personal code. Of course, not all are a struggle. Some are mandatory either for their own survival or because it’s simply a matter of “justice”. Both are self-confident, except, perhaps, where women are concerned but they respect them and have no patience or use for men who use & abuse. They’re also both highly skilled in their tradecraft, sometimes appearing as cold and hard as those bad guys they’re pursuing.I really like the addition of Ikeda. She’s revealed another side to Trapps’ personality–a softer, nurturing side, at the same time, showing that women can be smart, tough, strong, do just about anything men can and aren’t afraid to show it or to put jerks in their place. They say opposites attract yet we’re continually shown where/how Trapp & Ikeda are alike. It will be interesting to see where these men writers take their primary character’s love interests. Yes. I said love, not lust. There really is a difference as Trapp’s discovering but is it enough to change who you innately are?Unfortunately, the other thing these books have highlighted for me, is just how self-serving, manipulative, outright crooked and greedy our politicians, “public service” authorities and leaders can be– not just ours but all around the globe.These books can be read strictly for their entertainment value, or you can dive a little deeper into personalities and history, drawing corollaries to real life.

Very bloody
Fast paced. Not cluttered up with relationships. Interesting story. My biggest gripe was how incredibly bloody it was. The train. The church. The assassination on the highway. Bodies flipping everywhere. I guess it had to be bloody so the story would move along. I’ll read book 2 but if there is as much slaughter in it, it might be my last. The book reminded me of the Executioner series of the 1980s where someone died all the time.

A good start for the Jason Trapp Series
This is the first Jason Trapp novel, and as usual, I read it out of sequence. The former CIA officer emerges from his self-imposed exile after a failed operation where his best friend got killed. News images of inhuman mass murders and real-time attacks on public figures move Jason reluctantly into action.I enjoy a good thriller, and Jack Slater has been known to produce a few. He was probably one of the first commercial fiction authors to endow their protagonists with human traits and weaknesses rather than creating more superheroes. In doing so, he has come up with more believable stories. “Dark State” provides the template for subsequent episodes.As usual, Slater includes a strong female character in the person of FBI Special Agent Nadine “Dani” Carter, the strikingly beautiful daughter of a Marine Gunny and a Lebanese civilian. There is the promise of sexual tension, but that’s about it. The author could have done better in this case. Dating her father’s Lebanese posting limits the present-time reader’s imagination. Making a big deal about her ‘shimmering emerald eyes’ objectifies her character.Slater also over-describes weapons, which he does not in subsequent novels. This limits the audience in terms of Clancy-lovers and not.Despite its weaknesses, I truly enjoyed “Dark State” and gave it five stars on Amazon and Goodreads.

Slater mixes the current political crisis and uses political science scenarios that are chilling to the bone as his narration is extremely plausible. Lived in DC, and know Utah so all of that is close to home.

in eine beklemmende brutale Story, die darker kaum sein kann. Ein Plot, der ein Land an und über den Abgrund bringt und mittendrin – Jason Trapp. Vor six month für KIA im Yemen erklärt und seitdem off grid, wird er smack dab in die blutigen Ereignisse waterboarded. In Boston wird er zum Hero als er ein weiteres Massaker verhindert. Sein Team aus hunted CIA operatives und dem Deputy Director/ CIA Mitchell, den er für den Tod seines Freundes und Partners Ryan Price verantwortlich macht, es aber nicht ist wie es sich herausstellt, der special activity division und former Trapp’s Boss, Kyle einem IT Nerd der NSA und Perkins und Winks. dazu gesellt sich Special Agent Nadine “Dani” Carter, finden sich in eine Welt geworfen, die brualer und grausamer und rücksichtsloser nicht sein kann. Ein Land fällt in sich zusammen, die NSA hacked, FBI und law enforcement kompromitiert, Nash ein neuer rookie President im Office und eine conspiracy, die genau dort hin strebt. Whoa!Klasse. Fast- paced action mit einem sehr sympathischen American Hero, der nicht nur fun, die scene am Ende im OO – herrlich!, sondern direkte unmittelbare action verspricht – und hält. Mehr als hält.Es hat richtig Spaß gemacht mit Jasaon Trapp die Welt zu retten und ich freue mich riesig auf das zweite book “False Flag.”