Finnegan's Awake

by Trilby Black

Overview

Rain Wooten is just a normal teenager living in a quiet suburb and hunting down terrorists.

 

Since childhood, she's been helping her dad fight the Enemies of America. His FBI assignments are so top secret that other parts of the FBI don't even know he exists. Rain helps out by living the monastic life of a computer hacker, scamming money to support underground FBI operations, hunting down extremists online, and keeping America safe 24/7.

 

The one time she tries to be a normal teen and order a pizza, it all goes wrong. Instead of a thin crust with extra cheese, she nearly gets iced. Her whole world turns upside down and Rain vows to restart her meds, give up hacking, and return to a normal life.

 

But first, just in case she's not crazy, she's got one more bad guy to find.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164606879
Publisher:	Fawkes Press
Publication date:	01/11/2021
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	491 KB

Editorial Reviews

2021-03-03
Rain’s isolated mission to hunt terrorists changes when she is kidnapped.

Rain isn’t a typical teenager; living alone in a basement in Texas, she dedicates her entire life to defending America from terrorist threats, as she hunts extremist operatives who are disguising their plans through chatter about online games and runs gambling scams to fund her FBI–agent father’s secret operations. Rain’s purpose in life revolves around her membership in the True Patriots, a secret, elite FBI team that focuses on preventing terrorist attacks. Rain knows how to take orders, follow rules, and pass her father’s countless Loyalty Tests. But when she orders a forbidden pizza to celebrate a success, she is kidnapped and dragged into shocking reality by Russian Mafia boss Dmitri. Rain struggles to remain loyal as her sense of reality shatters, sending her spiraling as she begins to doubt every aspect of her world. Rain’s extreme loyalty and polished skills are realistically depicted and pull readers into her gripping narrative, filled with plot twists and shocking revelations. Unfortunately, the Russian baddies feel cartoonish, and the two-dimensional Muslim characters feed into common Islamophobic tropes. Rain is assumed White; there is some diversity in the supporting cast.

An absorbing thriller let down by simplistic stereotypes. (author's note, references) (Thriller. 15-adult)

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