The Bermuda Connection: The Nick Randall Series, Book 2 is an action and adventure thriller written by Robert Rapoza. The dreams had started shortly after his return from Peru, where he and his daughter, Sam, had discovered the lost city of Vilcabamba only to see its mysteries destroyed forever by a volcanic eruption. He kept on dreaming that he was a woman, alone in her apartment, whose nighttime sleep was interrupted by first a sense of something being in the room with her; then that sense growing into a shadow in the corner of her room and, inevitably, morphing horribly into an alien creature that seemed to examine her with chilling and dispassionate interest. Nick’s friend, Peter, noticed that his friend was obviously sleeping poorly and made a point of calling Nick’s son to alert him to the fact, but when John went to visit his dad, he found the front door ajar and a pervading sense of danger in the empty house. When he answered his phone, John heard Nick urgently telling him to get out of the house. Nick had made a powerful enemy during his Peruvian expedition; one who would stop at nothing for revenge.

Robert Rapoza’s action and adventure thriller, The Bermuda Connection, is a fast-paced and enthralling novel that’s guaranteed to keep adrenaline junkies happily reading on till the very end. While it’s the second book in his Nick Randall Series, Rapoza gives the new reader enough background information to enjoy this book on its own. That said, the author made it pretty much impossible for me to resist planning on going back and reading the first book in the series, The Ruins: A Nick Randall Novel. Rapoza’s plot is well-crafted and plausible, and his characters are credible and finely honed, especially archaeologist Nick Randall and the enigmatic Australian giant, Michael Thompson. I loved the blend of archaeology, adventure and travel that makes this book stand out from so many thrillers and had a grand time reading it. The Bermuda Connection: The Nick Randall Series, Book 2 is most highly recommended.

The Bermuda Connection: A Nick Randall Novel by Robert Rapoza is the second entry in a compelling, action-packed series that also reads as a standalone novel. A mysterious woman on an island, a drug that could erase traumatic memories, and assassins on the loose are just a few of the elements that are melded together to drive this riveting tale. The story starts with a creepy moment captured in vivid detail, and it moves quickly into action that will enthrall the reader. Nick Randall has just returned from a trip to the jungles of Peru, searching for the lost city of Vilcabamba, attracted by the odd physical aspects of a tribe and its otherworldly inhabitants. He is plagued by terrible nightmares and he is determined to find out why he has such terrible dreams and why always of the same woman. Meanwhile, Randall’s son, John, has just made a revolutionary discovery in science, creating a drug that could erase traumatic memories. But it has a side effect they never noticed in non-humans: it makes victims susceptible to suggestion and easy to manipulate. The disappearance of his research partner sets John on a search fraught with danger and enemies seeking to get ahead of him. But what does this have to do with a mysterious woman on the island of Bermuda?

Robert Rapoza melds elements of sci-fi and mystery to create a work of great entertainment for readers. What caught my attention from the very beginning was the excellence of the prose and how the author communicates the sense of mystery through the writing, crafting an atmosphere that is as intriguing as it is sinister. The characters are real and multi-dimensional and it is interesting how they evolve through the conflict and the international setting across Peru to New Mexico to Tibet to Antarctica and Bermuda. The conflict escalates with a powerful threat from the Chinese military and an irrational industrialist. The suspense in The Bermuda Connection grows stronger with a riddle to solve while the clock is ticking. Robert Rapoza is a great storyteller, making the novel balanced, gripping, and utterly thrilling.