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The Wager: A Unit 1 Novel (The Unit 1 Series Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Allen Kent (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 491 ratings
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A Rigged Presidential Election And A Trail Of Bodies

While investigating an extortion plot involving high-priced Washington call girls and some of America's most powerful politicians, Unit 1 agent Adam Zak becomes embroiled in a deadly scheme to engineer the election of the next President of the United States.

>>>A Web of Corruption

During the run-up to the presidential election, Zak and systems analyst Dreu Sason pick their way through an entangling web of murder, blackmail, and political intrigue that asks of both the government and the media who cover it, "Who can we trust" and "How can we know?"

>>>The Wager is the thrilling introductory “Unit One” novel. You won’t want to put it down!


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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07QLPN6FN
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ AllenPearce Publishers (April 15, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 15, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1040 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 358 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 491 ratings

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Allen Kent

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Allen Kent is a USA Today and Amazon bestselling author with a number of other writing awards. He was born in Washington DC, but has lived west of the Mississippi since childhood. Four years of his life were spent living in Iran and England, and he has traveled and worked extensively in Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia - experiences that are reflected in his writing. His career includes five years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, employment with one of the nation's leading semi-conductor industries, presidency of a community college, and a university professorship. He and his wife Holly are avid travelers, gardeners, and conservationists, and live in an eco-friendly home in rural southwest Missouri.

Kent is the author of the popular Unit 1 thriller series, the Whitlock Trilogy of historical fiction, The Colby Tate Mysteries, and other mysteries and thrillers. Visit his website at allenkentbooks.com.

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Peggy Flack Ake
5.0 out of 5 stars Unputdownable book!
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2021
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Very well done story. Seemed a tad slow in the beginning, then took off like a forest fire in California. There's a lot of danger, suspense, death, political intrigue, mystery, a terrible bet, real love, warped love and help from wonderful people.

I love the characters and it's amazing how some people will do anything for or to our country and citizens. It's frightening and reminds of the last Trump campaign. Some people will do anything for money. There's a lot of backstabbing, a Russian in Budapest, a wealthy and apparently bored Don of a Mafia crime empire and a former special services guys are going going who puts together a killer team to attack citizens.

It's an exciting book that you can't put down once you start reading. It's definitely a thriller with mystery and suspense that drives you to read most of the night. Good thing I'm retired. It's a great book! Buy it and read it. I loved it!
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Buy-the-Book Betty
4.0 out of 5 stars Timely action and some scary good settings
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2015
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I received this book through Kindle Scout, but I was interested only because I discovered that it had been written by a former friend of mine. I was astonished to find he had written fiction; I knew he had published some scholarly books as a college president, but was curious about what kind of a fiction writer he would be. I was pleasantly surprised. He created many excellent action scenes, and the plot was unique as well. It was pertinent to current affairs, especially now that we're in the middle of an election process. There were several unique settings and scenes. I particularly liked the cave scenario; both the situation and the way it was resolved. But. I did find that he had the "Clive Cussler treatment of women" syndrome...women are either hooker types or madonna types, and pretty uninteresting because of it...and I always feel annoyed when interesting women come across so blah.

It also kind of felt like there were too many descriptive details...he traveled across the country on this freeway to that freeway, getting off at this exit, getting back into a certain type of car, eating a certain food cooked a certain way, and wearing a brown cashmere sweater with a plaid button down collar shirt, with leather oxfords, etc. It took me a lot longer than it ordinarily does to work my way through the book, mainly because I just didn't need to be privy to all these details, they bogged down the reading. I was never excited to pick the book back up. Conversely, I liked the characters, but found them a little lacking because they weren't fleshed out with enough empathetic feeling so that I could develop a rapport. The editing was awesome, all except for one glaring error, in the very beginning: there was a "grizzly" murder scene! At first I actually thought he meant something about a bear, but then realized it was just supposed to be 'grisly'. Can't complain too much about only one really awful miss, but it stuck with me with the entire book, don't know how an editor missed it.

So...you might be wondering why I gave it a 4 star rating...really 3.5, rounded up. I thought for a beginning author, it was amazingly well thought out and put together. I think a couple of books down the road he'll be an even more amazing author; he had some well thought out research and well put together sequences, and I felt comfortable reading it. I liked the Badger character...THAT description was noteworthy...but not the resolution of her character; and, the denouement was a little too easy, but well written. All in all, I think Amazon was wise to pick him up, and I think he'll have some great books in the future. I'll look forward to reading them.
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Ripact
5.0 out of 5 stars Another five-star success!
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2015
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With "The Wager" Allen Kent maintains his pattern of excellence in writing. This includes his writing style, which clearly paints actions and surroundings with pertinent details but without verbosity. Kent's plot lines remain fresh but credible as well as contemporary. Readers in 2015 will relate to any type of terrorism. "The Wager" presents some unexpected motivations for causing destruction. Part of the thrill of reading this mystery comes from thinking things cannot get worse, yet they do. Similarly, with each of Kent's new novels, when I think it can't be equal to or better than his previous writings, it is! I continue to be amazed at Kent's ability to create such a variety of novels with each one fresh and entertaining.
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spauldo
3.0 out of 5 stars well thought out story I could read more of his books like
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2015
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an interesting concept. well thought out story I could read more of his books like this
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Monte Dutton
4.0 out of 5 stars Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch...
Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2016
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As a South Carolinian, I was surprised to learn that Charlotte is in my home state, according to Allen Kent's political thriller, but that is a quibble magnified by the accident of birth. The author seems much more knowledgeable about Budapest than some of the sites described in this country, but the intimate knowledge of the Hungarian capital sure comes in handy.
My second observation is that this is a western. The sagebrush may have gone out of style, but many stories are would-be westerns. They have just been moved into modernity as the Old West grows distant and its principles out of style. Star Wars is a western. Top Gun is a western. Many novels I've read recently have been either westerns without West or comic books without comics.
So it's kind of escapist fare, and rousing at that. It has a bad guy with a taste for rationalizing evil. It has a love story between its central heroes, though that aspect is a bit underexamined. It has the wager of its title hovering along on the periphery, growing far greater in consequence though unable to magnify the egos of its perpetrators.
It's fun reading. The details are a bit hard to accept -- Drue, of course, is a former runway model who happens to be impeccably educated and brilliantly versed in the nuances of surveillance, sort of a contemporary version of Wonder Woman -- but the purpose of this adventure isn't grim reality. It's entertainment, and it entertains.
The story fits better in the Year of Trump. I could imagine The Donald making such a wager.
Oddly enough, the most vivid scenes take place in the pitch-black dark.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The wager written by Allen Kent
Reviewed in Canada on August 8, 2020
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Wonderful book. Well thought out. I picture it as an octopus, it's many arms being different parts of the story but all a part of the same octopus.
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