Overview
Based on the popular comic book series, BLACK TIDE. When the Deceivers, a covert international black ops organization, backs off a rescue mission to save one of their own teams, Justin senses something isn't right. The organization he's trained all of this life to one day join, never leaves a man behind...not willingly. As the right answers don't come, Justin enters a dangerous game, daring to rescue his father's team from one enemy abroad and an even deadlier one at home.Synopsis
Based on the popular comic book series, BLACK TIDE. When the Deceivers, a covert international black ops organization, backs off a rescue mission to save one of their own teams, Justin senses something isn't right. The organization he's trained all of this life to one day join, never leaves a man behind...not willingly. As the right answers don't come, Justin enters a dangerous game, daring to rescue his father's team from one enemy abroad and an even deadlier one at home.
Gillian Wiseman - VOYA
In a new series based on the comic book Black Tide: Enter the Game, Justin is about fifteen, with his own fighter plane instead of a car and whose dreams hint at his being the reincarnation of an ancient warrior. His father works for "The Deceivers," an international covert spy organization that just happens to work out of U.S. military bases and has a U.S. military command structure. Tenth graders Justin and his best friend, Chad, are soon working for their fathers' secret employer, filing paperwork, and entering data. Finding the work boring, Justin begins spying for himself, hiding cameras and becoming interested in a polluted stream he discovers. Eventually he tracks the toxic waste back to the source, and routes the information to the EPA. Another plot involves Orville, a boy at school who is being bullied. Once Justin and Chad spend a couple of weeks teaching him to stand up for himself and fight back, Orville becomes a tough guy and defeats the bully. After a move to a new school and new town, Justin's father disappears on a secret mission. Justin suspects foul play and begins spying. When he discovers that the secret aircraft that his and Chad's father were flying has crashed, the boys mount a rescue operation. The teens deftly manage what the military has given up as impossible; they fly in, shoot up the camp where their parents are being kept, and pull off a rescue. Not even a likeable set of characters can save this comic-book-based action-adventure from pedestrian writing, an over-the-top plot, and general silliness. The projected series, Black Tide Rising, portends to combine history, science, technology, fantasy, and more, but it is recommended only where the comic ispopular. VOYA Codes: 2Q 3P M J (Better editing or work by the author might have warranted a 3Q; Will appeal with pushing; Middle School, defined as grades 6 to 8; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9). 2003, Angel Gate Press, 293p,
Editorials
VOYA
In a new series based on the comic book Black Tide: Enter the Game, Justin is about fifteen, with his own fighter plane instead of a car and whose dreams hint at his being the reincarnation of an ancient warrior. His father works for "The Deceivers," an international covert spy organization that just happens to work out of U.S. military bases and has a U.S. military command structure. Tenth graders Justin and his best friend, Chad, are soon working for their fathers' secret employer, filing paperwork, and entering data. Finding the work boring, Justin begins spying for himself, hiding cameras and becoming interested in a polluted stream he discovers. Eventually he tracks the toxic waste back to the source, and routes the information to the EPA. Another plot involves Orville, a boy at school who is being bullied. Once Justin and Chad spend a couple of weeks teaching him to stand up for himself and fight back, Orville becomes a tough guy and defeats the bully. After a move to a new school and new town, Justin's father disappears on a secret mission. Justin suspects foul play and begins spying. When he discovers that the secret aircraft that his and Chad's father were flying has crashed, the boys mount a rescue operation. The teens deftly manage what the military has given up as impossible; they fly in, shoot up the camp where their parents are being kept, and pull off a rescue. Not even a likeable set of characters can save this comic-book-based action-adventure from pedestrian writing, an over-the-top plot, and general silliness. The projected series, Black Tide Rising, portends to combine history, science, technology, fantasy, and more, but it is recommended only where the comic ispopular. VOYA Codes: 2Q 3P M J (Better editing or work by the author might have warranted a 3Q; Will appeal with pushing; Middle School, defined as grades 6 to 8; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9). 2003, Angel Gate Press, 293p,— Gillian Wiseman