I had some expectations to The Breach by Patrick Lee and the entire trilogy of novels. The blurb, the back-cover text promised something more than the usual boring stuff we are served from establishment publishers. Usually, that promise isn’t fulfilled, but in this case, it was.
The protagonist Travis Chase doesn’t just stumble upon an impossible scene, but his very destiny. He’s dragged reluctantly into deep secret clandestine government operations he can hardly believe. It takes even more unbelievable turns from that point.
He has a somewhat detached approach to it all at first, but the more he discovers of the startling truth, the more personal and familiar and closer to home all of it becomes.
What is The Breach? That question seems impossible to answer, for anyone involved, but eventually, as knowledge breeds the above-mentioned familiarity, and the truth is revealed, it becomes both far easier and far more difficult.
This is a mystery, where layer upon layer is revealed and I love those. We are served clues that are often misdirection and distractions. Chase realizes that he can’t trust anyone, not the people he sees as friends and close confidantes, not even himself.
This is undoubtedly a fresh breath of a story, clearly ambiguous and meant to be. There is great progression, and the story is believable within its own context, carefully crafted to slowly reveal the beyond shocking truth.
One minor beef: I feel that the ending of the third book should have been told through action and not through the protagonist’s thoughts.
This review is also about the novels Ghost Country and Deep Sky.
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