Wormhole

The Rho Agenda, Book 3

By: Richard Phillips

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

When the Rho Project’s lead scientist, Dr. Donald Stephenson, is imprisoned for his crimes against humanity, the world dares to think the threat posed by the Rho Project’s alien technologies is finally over. The world is wrong. In Switzerland, scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider have discovered a new threat, a scientific anomaly capable of destroying the earth - and only Rho Project technology can stop it. In exchange for a full pardon, Dr. Stephenson agrees to create a wormhole that will send the anomaly into deep space.

But his promise masks the alien agenda that brought the Rho Ship to earth. Now a trio of accidentally altered humans must infiltrate Stephenson’s wormhole project and stop it, no matter the cost. The final battle has begun - and this is one battle mankind cannot afford to lose.

©2012 Richard Phillips (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Excellent finish to my favorite series.

The author did a great job of pulling everything together in a satisfying conclusion! Highly recommend all his books.

Great series worth the time and money.

Truly an intriguing series. Each book held my attention to every word. The storyline flowed at a perfect pace. It never dragged or rushed through important scenes leaving the listener to have to mentally fill in gaps. The irritating parts were were the twin sister character. You knew what ever she did was going to bring about disaster. The foreshadowing was too obvious as well. The other was the author didn't bring any meaningful closure to the Robbie character. Although he did give us a small crumb about his future. This could be an intriguing way to usher in a fourth installment or just a cliffhanger with no real meaning.

dragging to end

could have written much realistic and struggling to end. overall 4 stats. may be that is why we call it a fiction 😷

Really good; kind of wordy

Love the first two. This one was really good, could have done with less description of "scenes" and more in depth character build. Felt almost like a screen play. Still enjoyed it! Would love for another one to come out!

Very entertaining. loved the pseudoscience

Mr. Phillips establishes futeristic science in a believeable manner. Story farfetched but entertaining . Good read!

Nice end to the series

A good end to the series though I see a few loose ends haven't been tidied up so I wonder if there is more on the way.

The best in the series!

Richard Phillips delivers fun technology sci-fi with an alien twist...what more could you want? LGMs, computers and wormholes! Bon Appetit!!

Loved this series.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

So sci-fi cool. Super fun to listen to and root for this young bad ass trio of friends!

loved this book

I had read this trilogy years ago but had to repeat it before continuing with the new books. I must say I enjoyed hearing it instead of reading it. The audible book is wonderful. I love that the narrator can use different voices to represent different people. Inflection on the sentences is perfect and helps to increase the drama.

Fitting end for the trilogy

Wormhole completes the Rho Agenda trilogy, while the characters may continue in additional installments, the "rho agenda" has been finished. Book 3 picks up essentially where Book 2 left off. All the main characters are back (including Tolbear and Freddy) with the kids down in South America with Jack. We learn a bit more of Donald Stephenson's master plan which eventually forms the crux of the tale and includes the potential destruction of Earth. Everything goes badly for our intrepid teenagers at first, but with Jack's training and their ever expanding abilities, they come through in the end. The story is fast paced with constant shifting among multiple parallel scenes.

The story remains true to its pre-teen / teen orientation in style and complexity. Portrayals of scientists, politicians, and spies are almost caricature-like with little nuance. At the same time Jack still retains almost mystical powers that defy explanation (I was hoping he would turn out to be a nonscientist Ultrian agent). Inconvenient messes generated along the way never seem to be resolved. The ending while bringing closure to the main plot line, still leaves many questions unanswered (what about: the 2nd ship? Jack's son? the NSA hacker?). In spite of these deficiencies, the tale is simply good, solid storytelling.

The narration is quite good with a great range of voices and a pace that invites one more chapter throughout.