Ash - Jason Brant

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Title: Ash (Asher Benson #1)
Author: Jason Brant
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: 336 pages
Date read: February, 2015

9 AM EST: A senator shoots himself on national television.

10:32 AM EST: An entire floor of government agents leap to their death from their office building.

12:57 PM EST: All the police officers inside a station murder each other.

And the day has just begun.

Lieutenant Asher Benson left Iraq with a traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and a Purple Heart. His doctors warned that the symptoms would be life altering. They had no idea. As his body healed, the thoughts of those around him began to echo through Ash's mind, stretching the boundaries of his sanity.

Five years later, Ash is drowning the voices with copious amounts of booze and self-loathing.

When unidentified intelligence agents abduct him in broad daylight, Ash is thrust into a world of espionage and assassinations. A unique terrorist is operating on U.S. soil, and the government needs Ash, and the malady that has plagued him for half a decade, to find the killer.


A random Amazon Kindle daily deal that turned out to be FAR better than I had ever expected. I had great difficulties putting it down, and finished it in just a few days (would have been faster if I hadn't deemed it perfect commute reading). Well written (or engagingly written, anyway) and lots of action from the very first page.

It did leave a couple of threads hanging, but no more than what is acceptable for the first book in a series (no cliffhangers!) and I'll definitely be checking out more of Jason Brant's books.