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Instinct (A Chess Team Adventure) Hardcover – April 13, 2010

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The high adventure of James Rollins combines with the gripping suspense of Scott Sigler in this second installment in the Jack Sigler Thriller

A genetic disease known as Brugada Syndrome kills its victims without warning, without symptom. When the President of the United States falls victim to a weaponized and contagious strain of the disease, the Chess Team—King, Queen, Rook, Knight and Bishop—are assigned to protect Sara Fogg, a CDC detective, as she journeys to the source of the new strain: the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam. Surrounded by Vietnam War era landmines, harsh terrain and more than one military force not happy about the return of American boots to the Ho Chi Minh trail, the fight for survival becomes a grueling battle in the humid jungle.

Pursued by VPLA Death Volunteers, Vietnam’s Special Forces unit, the team’s flight through a maze of archaic ruins reveals an ancient secret...a primal secret that may stop the disease from sweeping the globe—even as it threatens both the mission and their lives.

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Robinson's slam-bang second Chess Team thriller (after Pulse) opens in 1995 in Vietnam's Annamite Mountains, where Dr. Anthony Weston, a cryptozoologist, is studying a strange tribe of protohumans. When a pack of the creatures attacks Weston, one of them decides he'd make a tasty snack (he could taste the decaying flesh of some previous meal that clung to its two-inch-long canines). Fourteen years later, Jack Sigler, head of the elite Chess Team, is searching for the source of a deadly plague known as the Brugada syndrome, which has stricken the new U.S. president. Jack (call sign King) and his team members—Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, Pawn—are soon in Vietnam on the trail of a cure. There they find a vast mountain hideout with a city built of bones. Robinson, who's been criticized for writing stories that are too much like video games, has come up with a wildly inventive yarn that reads as well on the page as it would play on a computer screen. (Apr.)
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“Pulse was a video game in print form, and [Instinct] is a tribute to James Cameron’s film Aliens. Intense and full of riveting plot twists, it is Robinson’s best book yet, and it should secure a place for the Chess Team on the A-list of thriller fans who like the over-the-top style of James Rollins and Matthew Reilly.”
–Booklist

"If you like thrillers original, unpredictable and chock-full of action, you are going to love Jeremy Robinson's Chess Team. Instinct riveted me to my chair."
--Stephen Coonts

"Jeremy Robinson is a fresh new face in adventure writing and will make a mark in suspense for years to come."
–David L. Golemon, New York Times bestselling author of Ancients and Leviathan

"Instinct is a jungle fever of raw adrenaline that goes straight for the jugular."
--Thomas Greanias, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlantis Revelation and The Promised War

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0312540299
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Dunne Books; First Edition (April 13, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780312540296
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0312540296
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.73 x 1.22 x 9.56 inches

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Jeremy Robinson is the New York Times and #1 Audible bestselling author of over seventy novels and novellas, including Infinite, The Others, and The Dark, as well as the Jack Sigler thriller series, and Project Nemesis, the highest selling, original (non-licensed) kaiju novel of all time. He’s known for mixing elements of science, history, and mythology, which has earned him the #1 spot in Science Fiction and Action-Adventure, and secured him as the top creature feature author. Many of his novels have been adapted into comic books, optioned for film and TV, and translated into fourteen languages. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and three children.

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marc milner

Great read

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2022

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Good pacing with a good plot. This is what I expected from a Jeremy Robinson book. A very good writer worth your time to read his books

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Fools and Sages

Fun, though maybe do a little research?

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2012

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I liked Jeremy Robinson's Instinct. The action was non-stop. The characters were fun. As with any adventure book, one must expect improbable encounters and escapes as well as some hollow characters. Books like Robinson's (and the adventure genre's modern day godfather, James Rollins), are meant to be entertaining, not works of modern literary art. The one thing I don't like about Instinct is that Neanderthals never lived in East Asia and they weren't hairy ape-like people. Neanderthals ranged over the Middle East and Europe, never as far east as India, never mind Vietnam. Evolutionary anthropologists have reconstructed Neanderthals and they looked a lot like Earnest Borgnine. Evolutionary anthropologists and biologists have said for decades that you could clean a Neanderthal up, put him in a business suit and let him go to work and nobody would blink twice. Neanderthals looked like shorter versions of us with bigger noses, a more muscular build, broader shoulders, and maybe a bigger brow ridge than some people have today. Neanderthals were most certainly were not ape-like at all. Anthropologists have recently found remains of a different species that lived in central Asia (the Denosovians)but, to be on the safe side, Robinson should have made his evolutionary throwbacks Homo erectus because that species was all over east Asia. To be fair, Robinson's ideas about human-neanderthal interbreeding are actually true. Recent DNA studies have shown that modern humans have genes that regulate physical appearance and the immune system that come from Neanderthals. Finally, fossil evidence and archaeological finds suggest that the last of the "pure" Neanderthals died out on Gibraltar about 24,000 years ago. Whatever is left of the Neanderthals lives on in a few handfuls of genes in the modern human gene pool.

Overall, this is a fun book for some light reading. I liked the book a lot because it was briskly paced and entertaining. Because I know about Neanderthals, the portrayal of that species did trip me up a little. If the anthropology had been more correct, I would have given it five stars. If you know anything about human evolution, simply suspend disbelief as well as you can, sit back, and enjoy the ride.

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Instinct by Jeremy Robinson

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2010

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Instinct is book two in the Chess Team series by Jeremy Robinson. And it was a book I read in a weekend because I found it nearly impossible to put down. The action and suspense keep the pages flying by. The story takes turn after turn as the team struggles with a mission that could alter the course of human evolution forever.

An assassination attempt is made on the President of the United States. But its not the sort of attempt that a Secret Service Agent can throw himself on top of. This plot is viral. One of the viruses unique properties is that it only infects men, but does so at a genetic level. And once infected, it is 100% fatal. While the American government struggles to contain the contamination, and works to hide it from the American people, the Chess Team is sent to Vietnam's Annamite mountain range to track down a cure.

Along the way, they discover the origin of the virus as well as who has weaponized it. The team also discover an Anthropologist who has been lost in the jungles of Vietnam since 1995. And while the Chess Team struggles to discover the cure, they find a lost race of savage creatures that may challenge man's claim as the dominant species on the planet.

Instinct is a powerful followup to Pulse, the initial book in series. This book is as exciting as it is creative. The Chess Team characters grow and evolve as Robinson does a masterful job of adding depth to each team member as they each face personal challenges. The conclusion of the book is satisfying and complete but sets up a story that will launch directly into book three, already in the works.

Readers interested in action, suspense, and credible sci-fi will find all of it and more in the Chess Team series.

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another great book!

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2014

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Jeremy Robinson doesn't disappoint! After stumbling on these books by accident, I find I am hooked on the combinationo of military valor and the spine tingling terror of the unknown! Instinct has the Chess Team and a CDC scientist in Vietnam searching for the cure for a little known and previously rare genetic Brugada Syndrome that suddenly strikes down primarily healthy males. Someone has discovered a way to weaponize the Syndrome and has attempted to assinate President Duncan wiith it. When the Team arrives in Vietnam, they discover a tribe of Neanderthals whose males have fallen victim to the syndrome and are in search of new fathers for their tribe to contiue, as well as an American who has begun his own 'family' of hybrids and wants to prevent the rest of the world from discovering them. An exciting action packed read as the Team battles to obtain the cure and live to get it back to the US.

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This was a reasonably well written, imaginative adventure story. I found it a fast paced, enjoyable read and considerably less silly than 'Antarktos Rising.' As for the reviewers who were upset by coments regarding Fox News--oh, please! These reviewers, who have their own agendas apparently, fail to both complete the quote and to put it into context. Yes, I personally despise Fox News, but, in context, I doubt I would have significantly wigged out had Duncan used CNN instead. LB-C, PA, U.S.A.

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Crystal Fenerty

Well written

Reviewed in Canada on July 13, 2021

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Was very enjoyable and well written. Progress the series well and answers some questions will raising others as any good book series will. Definitely recommend

Pablo Cheesecake (The Eloquent Page)

Fantastic Jungle Thriller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 11, 2011

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When the President of the United States falls victim to a weaponized amd contagious strain of a genetic disease - one that kills its victims without warning or symptom - Special Forces commander Jack `King' Sigler is on the case. He and his team of highly trained operators have been assigned to protect a CDC detective as she journeys to the source of the new strain: Vietnam's Annamite Mountains.

Surrounded by old landmines, harsh jungle terrain, and more than one military force not happy about the return of American boots to the Ho Chi Minh trail, the fight for survival becomes a grueling battle. Pursued by the VLPA Death Volunteers, Vietnam's Special Forces unit, the team's flight through a maze of archaic ruins reveals an ancient secret that may stop the disease from sweeping the globe - even as it threatens both the mission and their lives.

Before we begin I have a question. Have you ever seen the movie Crank starring Jason Statham? It is a non-stop assault on the senses as Jason rampages across a city hunting down a group of criminals that stole his heart (yes, you did read that correctly). The reason I ask is because reading a Jeremy Robinson novel kind of feels like the same sort of experience. Once the action starts, it just doesn't quit until the story is done. Like Crank, Instinct knows that there are no real limitations when it comes to action, and it embraces this wholeheartedly. This novel is the written equivalent of pure adrenalin, and I was totally hooked from page one.

In the first novel Pulse, Jack Sigler's team mate and heavy weapons specialist, Bishop was given the opportunity to shine. Don't get me wrong I like all of the members of the Chess Team but Jack aside, Bishop stood out. This time it is Queen who comes to the fore. At one point, she suffers greatly at the hands of VLPA but she gets the opportunity for epic bloody revenge. Robinson really likes to push his characters to their limits. I've been thinking about this for a while and Queen reminds me of Mother from the Matthew Reilly Scarecrow novels. Both are tough as nails women who are just as capable as all the men around them. They are forces of nature in their own right.

The pace is blistering through out but be warned, Mr. Robinson delights in throwing the reader the occasional curve ball. Put it this way, at the end of chapter twelve there was a moment where I had to read a sentence multiple times as I was so flabbergasted about what had just transpired. There is nothing better than when a writer manages to drop something wholly unexpected into a story. Sneaky, but splendidly so.

I do have a minor quibble. I have to admit to being a little surprised that the identity of Deep Blue, the Chess Team's secretive right hand man, has been revealed. I enjoyed the enigmatic air that surrounded Deep Blue and part of me is sorry that this element is now gone. In saying that, without spoiling anything, I do now have a burning curiosity about where the reveal will lead.

Pulse is good but Instinct is great. This is a thriller that wears it's heart in it's sleeve and I believe it to be all the better for that. Instinct is the purest form of unmitigated escapism. I think it is about time you all discovered for yourself the never-ending action of The Chess Team.

Threshold, the third Chess Team novel, is already available in hardback, the paperback edition is due for release on 31st January 2012. I'll be purchasing it as soon as the paperback is available on Amazon UK.

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BigFish

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on May 22, 2015

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Love the lot of them - the whole series - action all the way.

ageofextremes

第1作以上にパワーアップしています

Reviewed in Japan on January 1, 2014

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チェス・チームシリーズの2作目。アメリカ陸軍のデルタ・フォースに所属する5名、コードネーム：キング、クィーン、ビショップ、ナイトそしてルークの今度の活躍の舞台はベトナムの山奥です。

アメリカ合衆国大統領がジョギング中、突然倒れます。何者かによって「ブルガダ（Brugada Syndrome）」という名前の武器化された生物兵器に感染、心臓が止まってしまったのです。警護要員の素早い処置で一命をとりとめたものの、感染力の強い「ブルガダ」は全米中に広まっていきます。放っておけば人類は絶滅の危機に。ブルガダが誕生した場所といわれるベトナム奥地にチェス・チームは飛びます。発生源を特定し、ワクチンを入手するために。しかし、彼らの行く手にはベトナムの特殊部隊のみならず、とんでもない「ものたち」が立ちふさがったのでした。。。

本作の注目点、面白いと思った点、そして「？」と思った点がいくつかあります。
１．作品中、キングとクィーンはベトナム特殊部隊につかまり拷問を受けます。けっして「グロい」描写ではないのですが、「凄まじい」描写ではあります。
２．前作で「体を再生する」ことができるようになったビショップ。彼は本作品において「体を再生する」ことの代償として失った「人間としての正気を保つこと」をある方法によって取り戻すことに成功します。それは何だったのでしょうか？
３．本作品では、作品の大半でハンドラーであるDeep Blueが登場しません。どうしたのか？その真相は最後で明らかになります。第1作『Pulse』の時点で既に予想はついていましたが、なるほどね、と思いました。
４．作品の中ではナイトが「Japanese is basically Chinese reworked to fit their culture and pronunciations, ... Just like English, French, and Spanish are all derived from Latin.」と言うシーンがあります。後半はともかく、前半はかなりの単純化ではないかな、と思いました。
５．前作では神話上の存在であるヘラクレスが存在した、ということが話の前提でした。本作でもある「どんでもないものたち」が実際にはベトナムの山奥深くに生存していた、ということになっています。前作に引き続き話はかなり荒唐無稽ですが、楽しめる荒唐無稽さでした。

作品は最後、第1作でも登場したGeorge Pierceから謎めいたメールを受け取ったキングが、アメリカはオレゴン州のとある町に行くことで終わります。そこでキングが見たものは。。。エンディングが既に次作のプロローグとなっています。

次作にも期待できそうです。お勧めです。

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Gary Gibson

Not bad

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 19, 2013

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A good follow up for the chess team , enjoyed, good actioner
Now looking forward to the third as the end of this am thinking takes u into the third a back story from the first

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