The Ninth Orphan

Vero Beach, Florida

The Ninth Orphan

James & Lance Morcan

Imagine a 31 year old man who has been bred and trained from birth to be the perfect secret agent.  In the course of his job, he finds a huge fortune in booty previously squirreled away by the Japanese in World War II which just happens to be worth about 250 billion dollars.  Actually, his job was to find this fortune for his employers to help finance their efforts to take over the world.  Yes, “take over the world”. 

He has had growing discontent in his job, realizing that if he tries to leave, he will become the next “mission”.  The defection of any of the agents bred and trained by this super secret organization cannot be tolerated.  The location of this treasure trove becomes his opportunity to break away once and for all, and live like a fairly normal human being.  The agent decides he can sell this secret instead of reporting it to his bosses and disappear for the rest of his life with the proceeds.  Realizing there are not a plethora of candidates that make up a market for his “goods”, he contacts the Chinese (who most of the treasure trove was stolen from in the first place) and arranges a sale of 150 million dollars for the secret.   

This is the beginning of a tumultuous journey involving the kidnapping of a beautiful French photographer, who just happens to be the daughter of a very high profile, influential retired diplomat.  Throw in pursuit by Omega (the super secret organization), the CIA, MI6, the Chinese, travel from Baguio in the Phillipines to Paris, France  and every twist and turn than you can imagine.  That’s just it, you can’t imagine it.

Sound a little over the top?  Well, it would be, except that James and Lance Morcan have constructed a fast reading novel following this plot that actually makes this seem believable.  I literally picked up my laptop (I usually just read hard copy books) early on a Sunday morning, and closed up my laptop that night finishing the book.  I admit I took a couple of breaks to eat and other necessities, but this book dominated my day and I enjoyed the heck out of it.

The agent’s name is Sebastian Hannar, the beautiful photographer is Isabelle Alleget and as I mentioned, the name of the super secret organization is “Omega”.  James and Lance have obviously researched their material and you put the book away wondering if something like this could really take place or, is it taking place somewhere?

Do yourself a favor, read this book, enjoy the journey and find out the surprise ending.   

Thanks for reading,

Mike