WHITE TOP / LIGHTNING (Miranda Chase NTSB 8 & 10) by ML Buchman

 

LIGHTNING
Miranda Chase NTSB 10
by ML Buchman
Release Date: June 7, 2022
Genre: adult, contemporary, military, suspense, political technothriller

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date June 7, 2022

Miranda Chase—the autistic heroine you didn’t expect. Fighting the battles no one else could win.

Revenge? A terrorist attack? Or a declaration of war?

The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee lies dead. The murder weapon? An Air Force Learjet deliberately crashed into his DC hotel room.

Half a world away in the South China Sea, an F-35C Lightning II — America’s newest fighter jet — crashes during landing. It cripples the aircraft supercarrier USS Theodore Roosevelt. An accident? Or China’s next move toward world domination?

Miranda Chase and her NTSB air-crash investigation team are spread thin as they struggle to unravel two horrific crashes at once — and halt a global firestorm before it burns them all.

Worst of all. The next target could be Miranda herself.

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REVIEW: LIGHTNING is the tenth instalment in ML Buchman’s contemporary, adult AMANDA CHASE, NTSB military, suspense, political technothriller series focusing on NTSB investigator Miranda Chase and her team of former and current military members.

Told from third person perspective LIGHTNING follows Miranda Chase and her team as they are tasked with investigating three nearly simultaneous situations involving US military fighter jets: the first is the crash of a fully fuelled KC-46 in Alaska, a modified Boeing 767; the second involves the hijacking of, and the subsequent targeting and destruction of Washington DC’s Kimpton George Hotel which would ultimately kill Senator Hunter Ramson; and thirdly, the unexplained crash of a F-35C Lightning II jet, and resulting explosion of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft supercarrier, a ship on training maneuvers in the South China Seas. Miranda Chase’s NTSB team has been called in to investigate all three disasters but with the team spread so thin, Miranda, a savant on the autism spectrum scale, battles in the wake of unfamiliar people unaware of her idiosyncrasies and struggles with everyday activities. Adding to Miranda’s battle, is the reassignment of her ‘second in command’ Jeremy, a man who is ready to direct an investigation of his own.

Once again, we are up close and personal with Miranda Chase’s struggle to recognize other people’s emotions, sarcasm, and jokes. Miranda’s last relationship failed in the face of her inability to perceive and distinguish between acceptance and opposition but her new love interest has the competence and capability of keeping our heroine on an even pitch.

LIGHTNING is awash in complex and detailed military vernacular and language such that one needs a spreadsheet to understand the description and dynamics of the fighting machines, war birds, and embattled personnel. LIGHTNING is a story of power and destruction, betrayal and deception, family and friendships, acceptance and control.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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WHITE TOP
Miranda Chase 8
by ML Buchman
Release Date: MAY 25, 2021
Genre: adult, contemporary, military, suspense, political technothriller

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Miranda Chase—the heroine you didn’t expect. Fighting the battles no one else could win.

The White Top helicopters of HMX-1 are known by a much more familiar name: Marine One. The S-92A, the newest helicopter in the HMX fleet, enters service after years of testing.

When their perfect safety record lies shattered across the National Mall, Miranda Chase and her team of NTSB crash investigators go in. They must discover if it was an accident, a declaration of war, or something even worse.

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REVIEW:  WHITE TOP is the eighth instalment in ML Buchman’s contemporary, adult MIRANDA CHASE political, technothriller focusing on NTSB investigator Miranda Chase and her team of former and current military members.

Told from several third person perspectives WHITE TOP follows in the aftermath of the crash of one of the newest White Top helicopters, Marine Two, and the loss would affect more than the fleet of Presidential fliers. Their last investigation complete, Miranda Chase and her team of NTSB investigators are called into to dissect the who, how and why, and the results point to human interference and not mechanical problems.

Meanwhile, Miranda Chase, a woman on the autism spectrum scale, is not quite willing to relinquish control but her second in command is ready to move forward with an investigation of his own.

As per ML Buchman’s style of writing as it pertains to Miranda Chase, the reader is pulled into the world of autism spectrum, watching (or reading) as Miranda struggles, not only with her own emotions, but recognizing small emotional nuances in others.Miranda’s last personal relationship failed in the face of Miranda’s inability to adjust or conform but a new relationship is on the horizon, one that has been developing for a very short time.

WHITE TOP is plentiful and replete with military and political jargon, especially as it applies and refers to the presidential aircraft and the mechanics within. ML Buchman pulls the reader into a suspense-filled, political thriller where the people at the top are targeted, and the person responsible may be someone close. The premise is intriguing and fascinating; the characters are resourceful, energetic and accomplished.

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Reviewed by Sandy