Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: The Elias Enigma by Simon Gervais

 

Simon Gervais is a former federal agent with extensive experience in military operations and law enforcement where he specialized in protective operations and counterterrorism. He has used his deep knowledge of the intelligence community to write more than a dozen popular espionage thrillers that have attracted a strong reader following.

His newest book is The Elias Enigma (Thomas & Mercer, 8 July 2025), the second book in his series about retired assassin Caspian Anderson and his girlfriend, German spy Liesl Bergmann, who has been temporarily assigned to support the Defense Clandestine Service, a well-hidden department of the United States. Anderson is being brought back into the organizational fold, which isn’t sitting all that well with him because he likes to operate as a lone agent.

Anderson has been assigned to follow small business and technology whiz Frank LaBelle, the founder of Scout Orbital, to France where LaBelle is meeting with representatives of a large organization that wants to acquire LaBelle’s latest invention. The United States is concerned about the political allegiance of the associates of the acquiring corporation and wants to keep the cutting-edge technology out of adversarial hands. Another group aligned with the purchasing company is determined to make sure the sale goes through. A third faction is shadowing LaBelle for reasons unclear to Anderson. When all three crowds converge in a hotel lobby at a business convention, things go boom.

In the meantime, Anderson’s parents, who quietly run a medium-sized trucking company in Maine, are taken into ATF custody for protection from gangsters who seem to have been using their trucks to transport ill-gotten goods. The crates and boxes were sent through two or three layers of intermediaries, and the Andersons had no way to know the contents were not as described on the bills of lading. When they accidentally found out, they reported the shipments to the authorities, putting themselves in danger.

Original plots, breakneck action, and authentic tradecraft make this title a winner. Fans of spy thrillers such as the Gray Man, Orphan X, Terminal List, Victor the Assassin, and Mitch Rapp series will want to add this new book to their reading lists.

The third book in the series is scheduled for publication in July 2026.

·         Publisher: ‎Thomas & Mercer

·         Publication date: ‎July 8, 2025

·         Language: ‎English

·         Print length: ‎348 pages

·         ISBN-10: ‎1662518552

·         ISBN-13: ‎978-1662518553

 

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Aubrey Nye Hamilton ©2025 

Aubrey Hamilton is a former librarian who works on Federal It projects by day and reads mysteries at night.