The Pilot

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Pub Date 4 Feb 2019 | Archive Date 16 Mar 2019

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Led by former Navy SEAL Victor Seymour, an elite team of mercenaries are sent by the CIA to rescue hostages, and secure data from an under siege top-secret island facility. But upon arrival, they discover ravaged military equipment, a mass grave, and a platoon of hostile forces already in retreat. As the team investigates, they uncover the secret that the island has contained for centuries.

For the first time, modern man will come face-to-face with a being from beyond the stars. A member of a deadly intergalactic invasive species, the beast is ravenous, cunning, lacking emotion or empathy. With his team dwindling, Seymour must fight to keep the beast from leaving the island, and to save humanity from the terrifying extraterrestrial known as The Pilot.

Led by former Navy SEAL Victor Seymour, an elite team of mercenaries are sent by the CIA to rescue hostages, and secure data from an under siege top-secret island facility. But upon arrival, they...


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With a fiery cover and a gripping description, "The Pilot" is something I couldn't pass up. I didn't even realize that it's written by an author that I've previously read, Michael Cole, who's book "Thresher" I read last year. After I found that out, however, I was even more interested, because I enjoyed that book. I would say that I liked this book just as much as the other one.

Beginning with a group of army buddies in the third person viewpoint, living it up in a house, drinking and listening to music, Victor Seymour, their leader, is approached by the C.I.A with a really intriguing mission. They say that they're willing to give them seven million dollars to approach a supposed Chinese research team, take them down, and steal the top secret tech they possess, as they're only posing as a research team, they're really common terrorists. After accepting and beginning their new mission, Seymour often wonders if they're going to be killed.

A series of strange events begin happening, including a captive who kills himself, a strange ship and a lot of classified information that they should really be told about, and that's when things start to get really weird. As they begin hunting for the supposed terrorists, they slowly begin to realize that not only are they hunting, but they're being hunted as well, but by something not even close to being human.

If any of this pulls you in and makes you interested, than I really recommend that you check this book out. The writing is a little cartoony, for instance, the characters reminded me of some that you would meet in a video game, as they're hilarious despite the horrible things they're doing and that are happening to them, and they make a competition out of killing people. That is, until they discover dead bodies in the area with really strange tumors. I liked reading this book and I didn't have any hitches reading it.

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Thank you Michael Cole for your new novel The Pilot, as I now have a permanent picture of the being in this book implanted in my memory. And I say that with positive sincerity. As a huge sci-fi fan I found the premise familiar (alien invasion vs. humanity), yet very well done. As I was reading the book I was reminded of several classic movies actually, like Predator, Alien, and The Thing. It has everything a reader (or movie audience for that matter) could want: Tough military hero (check), creepy horrific alien (check), terrifying action building to a blast-filled crescendo (check), sleazy government agents/scientists (check).

If you are looking for a great classic sci-fi book with shooting, scary aliens, and macho killing of said aliens, this is your next read. I encourage you to read it soon so you can be the first to say "I read it before it was a movie!" If you are a film producer, please option this book right away because it could easily be your next blockbuster (reference the aforementioned permanently etched image of the alien on my brain).

I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review, thank you.

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Ex Navy Seal Victor Seymour and his team are hired by the government to rescue hostages and take care of some wet work on an island in the South Pacific. What Seymour's team doesn't know is that there is a hostile alien life form there, but that's half the fun. This book checks off all the boxes for a creature thriller- chest thumping mercenaries, crooked CIA and government types, a deserted island with a spooky past, a "Predator" type alien beast run amok, scientists and government spooks meddling in things that could doom us all, etc. . . If it's a bit "by-the-numbers", it's also a fun ride, and the strength of the novel are the well-written action scenes and the suspense and sense of dread that builds as the mercenaries explore and uncover the secret of the island and why they must prevail.

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Once you start reading, you can't put down this Cole thriller. It's non stop action and suspense hit. I really enjoyed the plot and look forward to more from Michael Cole.

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Victor Seymour and his team are mercenaries, guns for hire. They can pick and chose their jobs but then comes one Seymour cannot refuse to take. The CIA goes to him and to them he can’t say no.

It seems a pretty straightforward job: rescue hostages and secure data. They need to travel to an isolated island where they have to almost immediately face their first problem: a huge storm is coming. But the storm will be the least of their problems. As they finally land on the island itself, they discover huge destruction and a platoon of hostile forces already on the run. But who caused this destruction? What made their enemy run? What they discover makes their blood freeze…it froze mine for sure.

I raced through The Pilot because I soooooo love stories about aliens. Michael Cole’s story gave me goosebumps and nightmares for sure.
This story is full of action, a gory images and excitement and shooting and fighting and everything you could possibly want from a story like this.
I liked the characters too. Not much is known about them but in this case I don’t really mind because what they do on the island is what matters.

I will read more books by Michael Cole because I loved this one. Highly recommended.

THank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for my copy.

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