The Lost Codex: An OPSIG Team Black Novel

Jacobson’s entertaining third OPSIG Team Black novel (after 2012’s Hard Target) contains enough edge-of-your-seat action sequences to fill a handful of Mission Impossible movies. When the members of the Operations Support Intelligence Group, an elite black ops unit run out of the Pentagon, break up a suicide bombing cell in Washington, D.C., they stumble across a plethora of international terrorist plots—but at the center of it all are ancient scrolls whose secrets, if made public, could change the global geopolitical landscape forever. Tasked with securing the artifacts, the group—which includes FBI profiler Karen Vail (the star of her own series); Special Forces operative Hector DeSantos; and Aaron Uziel, the head of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington—embark on a globe-hopping adventure that takes them to New York, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv. While some thriller fans may find the plot too over-the-top, this is an undeniable page-turner. Agent: Joel Gotler, IPG Literary Agency. (Nov.)