The Prodigy Project (ISBN 9780982626924) was written by Doug Flanders. It is about a man that is recruited, he thinks, to be a battlefield anesthetist, but is actually going to be trained to combat biological terrorists. The new job he gets has to be kept secret from his family, which is difficult because they are a close knit family. Through out the book, he does do his job, but he also learns more about his family, and about himself. It is a good mix of strategy/science fiction/family/faith rolled into one book.

The Prodigy Project is well written, and I had a hard time putting it down. Many times, I would come back to it shortly after closing it because I didn’t want to wait to see what happened next. Doug Flanders wove the story together very well, it took place in several areas of the world, and at different times, but they all fit, and came together at the end.

There were many plot twists, and I could predict a few of them, but there were more that I didn’t see coming. The characters involved in the story came across as people I could expect to meet (if I ran in those circles). There were no stereotypical bad guys that spilled their plans and left the hero alone so that he had time to escape. There wasn’t anything that I would classify as over the top; it was something that I found pretty believable.

Faith played a big part in the actions of the main characters, though it did not get mentioned a whole lot. It was there, and was referenced more as the end neared. That may be the only fault I would mention, I think the characters’ faith could have been expanded more than it was.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Prodigy Project. I did receive it from BookCrash.com in exchange for this review, but that had no impact on how much I liked it.