Jack Emery is a reporter in Afghanistan. On a ride-along with some marines, the Humvee in front of him blows up from an IED. A lone combatant is spotted across the desert. The combatant identifies himself and then indicates that he came from Camp Navitas - a prison camp run by the marines which seems to operate out of bounds along the lines of the real Bagram prison. Jack thinks he’s on top of a major story, so he requests a stay at the base. His intention is to talk to the prisoners and discover what is actually going on.

This is a very short book—a novella or short story. Jack Emery is the good guy who gets in trouble trying to right a wrong by writing about it. He gets out of one hot spot only to get into another. This book is an intro to Vincent’s series of four other full-length novels about the reporter. Vincent has written about fourteen books in several series since 2014, for which he has been well reviewed. That’s a lot of books.

Fireplay is well edited. This shouldn’t be a claim to fame because all books should be well edited, but many are filled with a wide variety of typos, and that is even more common when books are written and published in a hurry. This book was originally published by Momentum Books: “Momentum specializes in providing authors with attentive, turn-key custom publishing services.” The ebook edition that I read was published by Steve P. Vincent.

He is described on his website as: “Steve has a degree in political science, a thesis on global terrorism, a decade as a policy advisor and training from the FBI and Australian Army in his conspiracy kit bag.

“When he’s not writing, Steve enjoys whisky, sports and dreaming up ever more elaborate conspiracy theories. Oh, and travel. He’s traveled extensively through Europe, the United States and Asia.” So I would put him in the same author box as Lee Child.

This book was a good, short, fast read and a solid introduction to Vincent’s Jack Emery series.

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