Severance Package
Jamie DeBroux’s boss has called a special meeting for all “key personnel” at 9:00 a.m. on a hot Saturday in August. When Jamie arrives, the conference room is stocked with cookies and champagne. His boss smiles and tells his employees, “We’re a cover for a branch of the intelligence community....
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Jamie DeBroux’s boss has called a special meeting for all “key personnel” at 9:00 a.m. on a hot Saturday in August. When Jamie arrives, the conference room is stocked with cookies and champagne. His boss smiles and tells his employees, “We’re a cover for a branch of the intelligence community. And we’re being shut down.” Jamie’s boss then tells everyone to drink some champagne, and in a few seconds they’ll fall asleep---for good. If they refuse, they’ll be shot in the head.Escape is not an option. Jamie’s boss has shut down the elevators and rigged the fire towers with chemical bombs. Panic sets in, chaos erupts, and no one is sure whom to trust. Jamie quickly realizes that there’s only one way he’s ever going to see his family again: the hard way.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312343804 (0312343809)
ASIN: 0312343809
Publish date: 2008-05-27
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Pages no: 263
Edition language: English
I mostly enjoyed this book, but it does read more like a screenplay than a novel - not enough description or backstory. Also, like a B horror movie, characters you like, and would prefer to have around, die. If an author is going to go into B-movie, slasher type deaths, then they should go for it ...
Completely off the wall, but fun nonetheless.
Getting called in to work on a saturday? That is the worst. Getting called in to work on a Saturday and being told that you're a front for a secret government counter-terrorism unit? That's.. interesting. Getting called in to work on a Saturday and being told that your office is being shut down ...
Interesting premise that descends into an unending orgy of violence.
The cover and the title are better than the book. Could have been SO cool, alas not.