Chasing Life is the fifth in an eight book series of thrillers featuring Wen Sung and Chase Malone. Wen, we learn on page one, is a former top Chinese spy; her billionaire boyfriend Chase is a Silicon Valley veteran, and at age 29, a technology wunderkind. Together their goal is to prevent people from using technology to cause harm.
In this installment, which begins at a breakneck pace and accelerates from there, the communist Chinese are portrayed as clever, ruthless and subversive. They are about to perfect human gene editing — not to cure disease, but to create a master race and dominate the world.
The secret Chinese facility housing this project is basically impenetrable. Cue Chase and Wen to do the impossible and penetrate the facility using simplistic storytelling to expose the communist plot and rescue the victims of the Chinese genetic experiments. They predictably succeed thanks to Wen’s uncanny sense of timing, killing skills, and a convenient deus ex machina whenever they need saving from hopeless situations.
The scene which is pictured on the cover illustrates all that is wrong with this book. After much ado, Wen and Chase finally have the proof they need to show the world how the evil communists are manipulating DNA. The Chinese military and police are nipping at their heels in hot pursuit, determined to stop them at all costs. They must leave China without a moment to spare if they hope to accomplish their mission.
But Wen’s grandmother refuses to leave with them unless they recover her family’s ancestral ashes, from an urn, located somewhere in a huge city, which has been submerged underwater, beneath an enormous lake, since 1959. So while on the run in mainland China they manage a diversion to locate diving gear, the submerged city, and the urn as if they had all the time in the world to find a needle in a vast underwater haystack.
Even better, although the urn isn’t watertight, an assurance that the ashes won’t be wet after 61 years underwater provides the book’s unintentionally funniest line.
But putting aside the silliness, it’s perhaps not coincidental that this book was published in 2020, the year of the coronavirus which many believe “escaped” from a Wuhan laboratory in communist China causing a worldwide pandemic. If author Brandt Legg has raised awareness that the communist Chinese really are as deadly and dangerous as he’s portrayed them in his fictional fantasy, then he has rendered the public a valuable service.
A final word about the author. According to his biographical profile, Brandt Legg became a multimillionaire by age 20 and has hobnobbed with at least one US President and Secretary of Defense, Senators, Congressmen, Oscar winning actors, astronauts and CIA agents.
On the negative side he also left secondary school without graduating, pled guilty to fraud and served time in federal prison. Along the way he apparently taught himself to write with little formal education and now supports himself and his family writing elementary thrillers.
Even if his incredible profile is only partially accurate, there’s no doubt he’s led a more interesting life than any of his cliched characters in Chasing Life.
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