Vyper by Vikki Kestell
Task Force Resolute holds a mandate to hunt terrorists online. Director Wolfe provides the funding and agency umbrella under which Resolute operates, while Bella Tobin serves as Resolute's team leader. Bella, however, is not this woman's actual name. It is the current identity of Laynie Portland, spy extraordinaire, a covert asset who operated under deep cover in Sweden and Russia for more than twenty years before coming in from the cold. Enter Resolute's top intelligence analyst, Jasmine Jessup, or Jaz as she prefers. In front of her teammates, Jaz cuts a touchy, solitary, and peculiar figure. Few individuals alive, including her team, are aware that she, like Laynie, has a shadowed past, a dark history hidden behind a barricade of counterfeit identities-more aliases than even Laynie Portland could boast. At the same time, Wolfe, Bella, and Task Force Resolute guard Jaz's most precious secret: Within the upper echelons of international hacking, Jaz's brilliance and reputation are legend-for behind a keyboard, Jaz reigns as Vyper, the Venom Queen, a computer guru who instills both dread and reverence across the global hacker community. Despite her renown in cyberspace, Jaz is not a trained field agent. So why would Director Wolfe recruit Jaz for a dicey undercover assignment-one he insists has her name written all over it? Turns out, it isn't Jaz but Vyper Director Wolfe desperately needs for this high-risk assignment. As Jaz prepares for her assignment, uppermost in her training is operational security. Her handlers stress the peril that would await her should she be recognized as Vyper by someone in the hacker community, thus blowing her cover. Even so, no one could predict that Jaz will soon face a dangerous figure from her past-an individual who will hold her life in his hands. Laynie PortlandBook 1: Laynie Portland, Spy Rising
Book 2: Laynie Portland, Retired Spy
Book 3: Laynie Portland, Renegade Spy
Book 4: Laynie Portland, Spy Resurrected
Book 5: Vyper, A Laynie Portland Sequel
The readers' enthusiasm for Vikki Kestell's characters and odd plotlines reflects her passion for people and their experiences. I feel like I know these individuals and I'm right there in the novel, feeling what the characters are experiencing, are two frequently expressed sentiments. Vikki is a Ph.D. holder. Organizational Learning and Instructional Technology are two areas where I specialize. She abandoned a twenty-plus-year career in government, academia, and business life to focus solely on writing.
She says that writing is both the best and the most challenging job she has ever had. Vikki and her husband Conrad Smith live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she is also an renowned speaker and instructor. Visit her website at http: //www.vikkikestell.com/ or follow her on Facebook at http: //www.facebook.com/TheWritingOfVikkiKestell to stay up to date on new book releases.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781970120325 |
| ISBN 10 | 1970120320 |
| Title | Vyper |
| Author | Vikki Kestell |
| Series | Laynie Portland |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faith-Filled Fiction |
| Year published | 2023-10-16 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |