Kindle Edition Amazon Writing By Randall Category:  Action/Thriller Publisher: Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLC ISBN-10:  1945181060 Type: Fiction Pages: 368 Copyright: January 31, 2017 ISBN-13: 9781945181061 Price: $5.99 (eBook) Kurdish scavengers locate chemical weapons, offering them to others intent on creating international chaos. Bedlam Alpha must secure the weapons at all costs. In their daily struggle for survival, Iraqi Kurdish scavengers uncover a cache of chemical weapons. They offer the weapons to fellow Kurdish rebels in Turkey and Syria to assist in their quest to free an imprisoned leader and create a unified homeland. After receiving a tip from an unlikely source, the newly formed Special Operations Bedlam team is called to arms! Travel with Craig Cameron and his international team on their covert operation as they weave their way through war-torn regions seeking to locate and recover the weapons before they can be used to cause irreparable harm and instigate a world crisis. The odds are stacked against them. Can they manage to keep their operation hidden and prevent further clashes before it’s too late?   Excerpt “You must swear by Allah never to say a word of what I’m going to tell you. This is the most important secret. Ever!”

5.0 out of 5 starsA new special ops team unplugs the Kurdish Connection
Randall Krzak crafted an action thriller as current as today’s headlines. The story is fast paced and an easy read. It is well-edited and the cover is appropriate.

The world media may have forgotten Saddam Hussein used deadly mustard gas and other agents on the Kurds before/during the Second Gulf war, but the Kurd's haven’t, and they still fight for international recognition and independence. The story bounces back and forth between ethnic Kurds in Iraq finding one of Saddam’s hidden weapons cache and the newly created US Bedlam Strike Team. The Kurd's who found the weapons cache are led astray by zealots who want world attention for their cause of a Kurdish state. The original group lost family in Saddam’s attack and want the existence of WMD made public, but are swayed by influenced mullahs (as usual, with their own agendas.) The ease with which the Kurd's moved in and out of Iraq, Syria, and Turkey identifies the basic problem prevent peace in the area—each group, religion, or partisan have their own agenda and refuse to consider the merits of another.
The Bedlam team enters these same countries as though borders don’t exist.

The Bedlam Alpha Team is on their first active mission after one practice exercise. The team members use code name: Haggis, Aussie, Kiwi, Mountie, and Rebel. The Bedlam Strike Force operates under the auspices of the Chairman of the US Joint Chief of Staff with the cooperation of the UK and Australians. The Bedlam team is to locate and recover the toxic gas cylinders before the Kurds either intentionally or accidentally kill innocent people with them. (The fact that WMD existed in Iraq is mentioned once and discarded by all parties reinforces this is fiction (Right?))
The Kurd insurgents stage a dozen hit-and-run terrorist attacks to cause disarray and spread the Turkish military thin. The Kurds Goal is to free imprisoned Kurd spiritual leader Abdulla Baziyan from a Turkish prison.

A non-stop thriller may seem like an overdone phrase
non-stop thriller may seem like an overdone phrase, but that is what Mr. Krzak has created in this book. Hard to believe that it's his debut novel.
The characters are so real that you feel affection - or fear, as the different groups look for or try to hide a deadly cache of Sarin gas cannisters left over from Sadam Hussein.

Krzak keeps you turning pages as you follow the different characters as they wend their way through the exciting plot. The proverbial "clock is ticking" as you watch the drama unfold. You find yourself saying, "no don't do that, do this," because the author has given you enough information to be a couple of steps in front of the protagonists.

The "Bedlam Alpha" team was a brilliant move on the author's part. It consists of butt kicking characters readily believable by a fan of thriller novels. The author has a fine ear for language, such as his Canadian character's often ending a sentence with the familiar Canuck, "eh."

It was easy to give this excellent novel a five star rating. I look forward to his next book.

Exciting new author
When Kurdish scavengers uncover a deadly hoard left over from Saddam Hussein's armoury, they see the chance to fight against oppression of their people. Unfortunately, the stash includes canisters of deadly sarin gas, which, in the wrong hands, can unleash unspeakable suffering on innocent people. Bedlam Alpha, an international team formed to prevent conflict, must recover the cylinders which are now hidden in multiple locations throughout politically tense Syria and Turkey.

Randall Krzak's debut novel contains all the elements of a powerful thriller. A crack international team. An impossible mission. Terrifying stakes. But this is not just another thriller; Randall's intimate knowledge of the Middle East makes this a fascinating read. He has a talent for bringing people and places to life, and has left me with a better understanding of the mentality that fuels conflict in this troubled region. This is an author to watch, and I look forward to his next novel.