The Blockchain Syndicate by Robbie Bach is his second novel and the first reviewed in this blog. It’s a contemporary thriller, and make no mistake, it is a thriller that grabbed me at page one. This novel is based on the notion that with little organization and small funding, on January 6th 2021, an unruly and disorganized mob stormed the U.S. Capital building and temporarily interfered with the peaceful transition of power from Trump to Biden. Bach wrote of very wealthy men who opined that it was improper government regulations that kept them having even more influence and more wealth. Therefore, they thought it was only proper that the government be overturned. The book was about those well-funded and well-organized efforts to defeat America’s democratic government.
Bach created great characters, both good guys and bad ones. The protagonist was Tamika Smith, the daughter of an army man, General Smith, so she was really an army brat, having grown up on military bases around the world. After tours of military duty in which she was heroic, she successfully ran for the Senate in the State of Washington. She was a formidable woman who found herself as being critical in stopping the equally powerful bad guys. She had fallen in love with a divorced man, Johnny Humboldt, who had two children, and it was especially his teenage daughter, Phoenix Humboldt who had taken to Tamika, much to her mother’s dismay. Thinking about Tamika, what would you do if someone wanted to stop you from your democracy-saving plans, who went so far as to wound Phoenix in a school shooting, and who kidnapped the man you loved in an attempt to shut her up? Tamika's enemy was a female assassin, an other solid member of Bach's cast.
Bach’s plot was well designed, and the story was filled with believable people. After getting hook on the first page, I just kept reading until I finished the story. This novel gets my highest recommendation, and it’s now obvious to me that I need to go back and read his first novel, The Wilkes Insurrection.
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