[thumb:28:l]Hmmmm…how do I start this one?

What do you get when you mix the WWE, its stars, the NSA, and drugs?

Surprisingly you get a novel that runs like the plot of a TV Movie that you might find yourself watching on a rainy Saturday evening.

And surprisingly, I expected a far worse novel.

What I got was a decent short little read about some of my favorite wrestlers going undercover and busting a huge NY drug ring. But how does this occur, I hear you asking?

The story introduces us to an old “friend” of Vince McMahon’s. This friend, named Phil Thomson, was an old classmate of Vince’s who he used to torment back in private school. That is until Thomson got some incriminating evidence on Vince which got him kicked out. Fast forward decades later and Vince runs the WWE and Thomson is now upper management in the NSA (National Security Agency) and he arranges a meeting with Vince to discuss with him an idea he has for his wrestlers.

The plan, is to turn wrestlers into secret agents. The logic is, they’re athletes, they’re used to working through pain and injuries and also many injuries in their profession can be faked and appear more serious then they are so they are able to easily “vanish” or “take time off for recuperation” without anyone knowing that they are actively doing something else. And most importantly, they are able to move from town to town and country to country without anyone thinking anything of it.

We don’t get a lot of background on what missions they may have been involved in before the current one. Mainly the book glosses over that to let us know they all have received several weeks of training by the NSA and most have done a mission or two before this. Now they are tackling their biggest mission and the first where they are all working together to help put down a serious drug smuggling/selling business in NY.

The story is fantastical, pro wrestlers go undercover in NY, sneaking through sewers, high speed chases, brawls in a train yard, and amazingly enough for a book based off of pro wrestling its actually a pretty decent piece of trashy action literature. Its purely a book for guys who like books about secret agents and definitely for hardcore wrestling fans. I’m actually surprised WWE themselves didn’t think to adapt this and do a film version of it, it probably would be lampooned and made fun of, but it would probably also be a cheesy little action fic you break out with friends when you just wanna see explosions and punches being thrown.

For the price of 7.99 and clocking in at just under 300 pages its a cheap good read that progresses quickly through the adventure. IF you can find it, and you like wrestling, grab it, you’ll probably enjoy the look of some of your favorite characters being shown in a different light. If your not but you like lite spy/action lit, try it too, for less then 10 bucks its not a bad read.

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