After witnessing the murder-suicide of his parents as a child, Noah Wolf suffers from a form of PTSD that has left him without emotion, without a conscience, and without the ability to function as a normal human being. With the help of childhood friends, he learns to watch others around him and mimic their behaviors, in order to conceal the fact that his mind operates more like a computer that he has spent years programming. That program is what allows Noah to pass himself off as normal, by establishing parameters of right and wrong that are completely inviolable to him.
As a young adult, Noah finds structure in the U.S. Army, and becomes an excellent and exemplary soldier, but when his self-imposed programming is put to the test by the murderous acts of the superior officer, Noah finds himself quickly made expendable, charged with crimes he did not commit and facing the possibility of execution. Without any reasonable hope for a reprieve, Noah’s logic-based mind accepts his fate.
Sometimes, though, things are not all as they seem to be, and Noah is offered one chance to save himself. It was his disability, his lack of emotion, that made him the soldier he had become. Now, an ultra-secret organization known as E&E wants Noah’s talents, offering him a chance to survive as the most deadly assassin the world has ever known.
Terrible. I have read books like these in the past, but this author was determined to make the main character as unbelievable as possible. And as close to super human as possible. The main character is not likeable, makes way too many stupid decisions that a person with his “condition” I assume would never make, because I spent more time wondering why he was doing certain things given that he had “no emotion”. Really bad book. Really bad plot. Terrible characters all around, and highly unbelievable…
Great Cover… Poor Story While parts were interesting, I found myself skimming ahead to to when the story was going to begin. The majority of the book was back story that was way too detailed and that could have been introduced when we needed to know it — and I’ m not sure we needed to know any of it at all. When the mission finally started 3/4 of the way into the book, everything went just peachy. There was no problems to overcome, no conflict, no action, no excitement at all. This was a short story with no point,…
Not as good as all the reviews would have you believe, but you could do much worse The glowing reviews convinced me that, despite having never read any of the author’s previous novels, this book was a safe bet. I’ve enjoyed the works of Brad Taylor, Vince Flynn, and Mark Greaney, and “Code Name: Camelot” seemed to follow a similar path, that of highly-trained men and women working for shadowy sectors of the intelligence community, doing the dirty work necessary to protect America. And while the book shows promise, it does not, unfortunately, measure up to the best…