The Scylla Hexagram

By Paul Riva

As the full moon shines on a sacred Himalayan cliff, Kym Blaze falls into a raging white water river and escapes from a hooded killer who plunged after her.

Eighteen years later, a global Secret Service assigns Kym, now an attractive botanist and Special Ops agent, to identify the same hooded killer, known as the Unicorn, whose name has reappeared in the Hong Kong underworld.

To find the Unicorn, she must track a star trader called Obermeyer, recently freed from jail by Unicorn henchmen. Kym only has six days to stop the Unicorn from achieving global hegemony, but her emotional demons surface unexpectedly and threaten her survival. Torn between her mission and her past, she must unravel the deadly maze of the Scylla hexagram in order to stay alive and face the dark shadow of her deepest fear.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595307337
• ISBN13: 9780595307333
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

really cool Book

One of the kind of Suspense Books that locks you in off the word jump & you can't put it down because you don't want to Miss what is gonna happen next.the Author gets Dap from me for being so Versatile & maintaining a Pace that never slows down.highly enjoyable & top notch from start to finish.

Moving from the start to the end.

You know what makes for great reading? A book that captures you from beginning to end and this book had me captured from the start and 4 hours later I was a part of the story. The author has you moving from the start with the rafting trip to the very end.The plot has an agent looking for the killer, and while this may not seem new, wait till you get going and the thrills and suspense will keep you wanting more and more. I found the style of writing to be very easy to pick up, and I am not a fiction reader by nature but this book was something special.There is always something about global espionage, sexy women, power and thrill packed adventure that make this book one of the very best I have read this year. I think with a little work this could be a full length feature movie or possibly something for TV.The main character is a woman and the author calls this books "An alternative to Lara Croft" and with a name like Kim Blaze, how can you go wrong. If you like fast paced, action packed suspenseful thrillers than take some time to get to know, what should become a household name very soon, Kim Blaze.

Moves fast and you wonder who the double agents are

The setting of this story is Asia, specifically Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China. Kym Blaze is an agent of an organization called The Network and she is hunting a master criminal known as the Unicorn. As a child, she was a witness to a murder committed by the Unicorn and barely escaped being killed as a consequence. The Unicorn has resurfaced, and his master plan is to return the P. R. C. to a social, economic and political system based on Maoist principles. To accomplish this, the Unicorn has recruited a master trader, who has come up with a plan to manipulate the international financial markets so that they will crash. The ensuing chaos will give the Unicorn the opportunity to restore the P. R. C. to what he considers the ideal. The book moves fast, there is intrigue, deception, many double agents and several battles. I enjoyed the book, although the psychological angle regarding Kym's flashbacks to when the Unicorn tried to kill her are overdone. Special-ops agents are trained to pursue the mission first, setting all personal feelings aside. I also had a hard time accepting the premise of returning the P. R. C. to the days of collectivist communism. I have been there and have seen the dynamic economic nature of the country. The idea that it could be returned to such a condition requires too much suspension of disbelief, even for a work of fiction. What makes a good action/adventure thriller is that the major premise must be within the bounds of believability. While such an event would have been possible in the late seventies, there is no way it could occur in the twenty-first century. The bounds of believability were stretched too far for me. These criticisms aside, the action moved fast enough to keep my interest and I recommend you take a look at it if you are interested in action/adventure stories based on secret agents and financial manipulation.