The Blueprint

The Upgrade, Book 1

By: Wesley Cross

Narrated by: Neill Thorne

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Publisher's summary

Human augmentation. Corporate warfare. Buckle up for a wild ride.

There's a corporate cabal that wants to rule the world. Some might say it has been doing it already for decades by whatever means necessary. But they are no longer content to hide in the shadows. They want to become true masters.

Jason Hunt knows nothing about that world. In a decaying society plagued by poverty and a lost sense of purpose, he's one of the lucky ones. He's got money. He's happily married. He could just go on living.

But when his wife becomes ill, Jason finds himself pitted against the cabal that might hold the key to her survival. To save her, he needs to embrace technology he doesn't understand, take over a billion-dollar company without a billion dollars, outsmart professional assassins, and land a contract with the DOD. But even that might not be enough.

Listen to The Blueprint - the first book in the Upgrade series set in a dark, near-future world that will appeal to fans of the Jason Bourne series, Daniel Silva, and Lee Child.

©2020 Wesley Cross (P)2020 Wesley Cross

pretty awesome read

Full course of action, suspense and scifi.

the narrator has done a great job as well.

not my usual genre and I loved it!

This is my first time reading Wesley Cross and even though it's not my typical genre I enjoyed this book!
There's a lot of characters to keep track of in this audio and Neill Thorne did a phenomenal job acting out each character! I'm blown away with his ability to voice so many different characters and keep track of them fluidly throughout the book..
As far as the concept of this book goes, I would say as a non thriller reader, I was intrigued by the concept. Even though this idea has been done before, Wesley made if feel fresh with a human component and the driving force behind Jason's reasoning.
Not only did I feel invested in where his story was going, but also all the other characters in this book.
I was lucky to have been given the first 3 books in this series and I'm ready to pick up from book one into the next book, Vertigo.

Great narration helps keep characters straight

I listened to the audiobook and the narration by Neill Thorne was excellent. There were a lot of characters to keep track of and hearing distinct voices for them helped me keep them straight. I'm sure that I enjoyed the story more because I listened to it.

The story itself was interesting and contained a lot of action (sometimes graphic). The science fiction concepts were creative, and I am interested in listening to more of the series.

I received a copy of the audiobook at my request, and the opinions here are my own.

skip it

kept jumping around to different characters without any warning. Another character goes from healthy to being hospitalized with lung cancer to having their ashes scattered so fast that it didn't care about them nor any other character since you barely spend time with them before going to someone else