Write Stuff: After Reading: THE PROMETHEUS MAN by Scott Reardon

Monday, March 26, 2018

After Reading: THE PROMETHEUS MAN by Scott Reardon

A man with no identity... hunting a man without limits.

When a pile of bodies is found in Paris, CIA Agent Tom Blake hustles his way onto a major case: tracking a man with enhanced abilities, the test subject of a secret government program.

There's just one problem: the man using Agent Blake's identity is not Agent Blake. He's Tom Reese, a man without a family or a home.

Reese is searching for his brother's killer. He stole Agent Blake's identity two months ago and has bluffed his way onto the team investigating his only lead. But his time as a CIA agent is accelerating toward its expiration date.

Soon the CIA will find out that Agent Blake is in two places at once. Soon the augmented man will come looking for him. And soon both will discover that Tom Reese carries a secret even he doesn't know about.
He is the last test subject of Project Prometheus. (Goodreads)

I've been really enjoying a good thriller/spy novel lately, and the faster the pace, the better. They're a great escape, and I find them super fun and the perfect way to unwind. Reardon's novel was a decent example in this genre, and I did enjoy it. There were some clunky aspects to the pacing, characters, and plot, but in general the book kept me interested enough to keep going and overlook little issues. There did seem to be an inordinate number of correlaries with the Jason Bourne series, but of course it's hard to tell a story in this general vein without having a good deal of potential commonalities crop up. I'm also grateful that the author shied away from a lot of the science, because honestly, it was clear from the get-go that there was basically no actual science to explain what had been done to the test subjects. Okay, well, there were some attempts at explaining things, but I found myself skipping them and rolling my eyes. Sorry, stem-cells don't actually work that way... Anyhow, overall, a decent read, and though I've read better, it kept me interested enough to get to the end!