About the Book
Dr. Xavier Pekoni, a rich evil scientist, is working on his underground Fountain of Youth project. Using nanotechnology and DNA mapping he is desperately close to extending life ten-fold, which has driven him to extreme research methods.
The R-Group is called in by government agencies to locate Pekoni, verify his unethical practices, and stop him at all costs.
Jacob distancing himself from the R-Group due to personal demons, becomes unwittingly entangled with Zara, the villainous femme fatale leader of the Dteam.
Will he provide the missing coding sequences for the Dteam to capture personal data from health records all over the world?
EZ and Quip, supported by the CATS team are thrust into the forefront of the cyber battle. The feisty redhead, EZ, leads the team along with ICABOD against an evil force seeking to harness his supercomputer technology to further drive Pekoni's agenda.
Will the diminished resources of the R-Group fail to penetrate Pekoni's laboratory and shut it down? What will happen to the team if that occurs?
Award-winning authors of The Enigma Series, Breakfield and Burkey, take readers on an accelerated adventure with old and new characters to tell the tale of human DNA changes gone wrong in Book 6, The Enigma Always.
What Readers are Saying
Kirkus " ... As always, loaded with smart technological prose and an open ending that suggests more to come."
"I enjoyed the excellent writing, the complex plot, and the monumental conflict. One has the feeling they are holding a bomb that could go off any moment as they race through the pages."
"Read the first book, enjoyed it, decided to skip to Enigma Always... great read.... need to make a movie or miniseries soon."
About the Author :
Breakfield - Works for a high-tech manufacturer as a solution architect, functioning in hybrid data/telecom environments. He considers himself a long-time technology geek, who also enjoys writing, studying World War II his¬tory, travel, and cultural exchanges. Charles' love of wine tastings, cooking, and Harley riding has found ways into the stories. As a child, he moved often because of his father's military career, which even now helps him with the various character perspectives he helps bring to life in the series. He continues to try to teach Burkey humor. Burkey - Works as a business architect who builds solutions for customers on a good technology foundation. She has written many technology papers, white papers, but finds the freedom of writing fiction a lot more fun. As a child, she helped to lead the kids with exciting new adventures built on make believe characters, a Girl Scout until high school, and contributed to the community as a young member of a Head Start program. Rox enjoys family, learning, listening to people, travel, outdoor activities, sewing, cooking, and thinking about how to diversify the series. Breakfield and Burkey started writing non-fictional papers and books, but it wasn't nearly as fun as writing fictional stories. They found it interesting to use the aspects of technology that people are incorporating into their daily lives more and more as a perfect way to create a good guy/bad guy story with elements of travel to the various places they have visited either professionally and personally, humor, romance, intrigue, suspense, and a spirited way to remember people who have crossed paths with them. They love to talk about their stories with private and public book readings. Burkey also conducts regular interviews of Texas authors, which she finds very interesting. Her first interview was, wait for it, Breakfield. You can often find them at local book fairs or other family oriented events.
Review :
Kirkus Reviews - In the latest volume in Breakfield and Burkey's (The Enigma Stolen, 2015, etc.) techno-thriller series, a disreputable doctor's life-extension project calls for abductions and human experiments with unwilling participants. Su Lin nearly died from an accident that caused her to lose her memory. Formerly known as Master Po, she'd been an expert in cybertechnologies. When someone tries to kidnap Su Lin, a digital-security team called the R-Group suspects that the baddies are after Su Lin's laptop. But the woman can't remember what's stored on her computer or how to bypass its complex encryption. She may have a connection to Dr. Xavier Pekoni, whose Fountain of Youth project--complete with unsanctioned human testing--had devastating side effects for its test subjects. A U.S. agency hires the R-Group to find Pekoni, convinced he's attempting to finalize his research to increase human life spans. The authors excel at breezing through exposition, quickly setting up their newest tale: this time around, returning R-Group lovebirds Jacob and Petra are separated, the latter having isolated herself due to her physical and mental scars. Familiar bad guys abound as well: Jacob's freelance work inadvertently entangles him with Zara of the villainous Russian Dteam. Zara, meanwhile, is on the run from Chairman Chang, from whom she stole 5 million in diamonds. There's mystery throughout, as readers don't immediately learn why Pekoni is trying to snatch Su Lin or if her teenlike behavior (she's 50-something) can be remedied. By now there are enough recurring characters that many have paired up romantically, but Breakfield and Burkey still manage to churn out fresh interactions between the couples, as with Jacob and Petra, who, during a conference call with the R-Group, privately message one another to discuss their fractured relationship. ... As always, loaded with smart technological prose and an open ending that suggests more to come.
5 Star - Reviewed by Ruffina Oserio for Readers' Favorite - The Enigma Always is volume six in The Enigma series by Breakfield and Burkey, featuring the R-Group and a world characterized by high technology with advanced techniques in gathering and diffusing information. But there is something more. With the advanced technology, human cells and DNA can be enhanced to prolong human life much longer, but there could also be devastating consequences. Humanity may face a serious threat if the experiments of the unscrupulous Dr. Xavier Pekoni come to a neat conclusion. Only the R-Group, working in collaboration with CAT teams, can stop him, and that is if they use all their skills and resources, but can they succeed without two of their key players, Jacob and Petra?
Fast-paced and gripping, there is no waste, not of words, not of a single plot element. The reader is immediately drawn into a mysterious world of covert activities with codes being exchanged and the R-Group rushing around with their investigations. The characters are well-developed, the complicity between some of them lived through very threatening and dangerous moments. Breakfield and Burkey are expert storytellers, entertainers who create a story that will have readers oblivious to their immediate reality for the whole time and characters they will remember long after they are done reading. Fans of sci-fi and thrillers will fall for The Enigma Always, and they will fall really hard. I enjoyed the excellent writing, the complex plot, and the monumental conflict. One has the feeling they are holding a bomb that could go off any moment as they race through the pages. I am a huge fan of this series.
