The East African and Hong Kong settings are intriguing and the shocking ending highlights how little room there is for loyalty or traditional values in the murky world of covert action. After a slow start, this novel picks up steam, and readers won't be able to put it down. [See Prepub Alert, 2/1/15.]
Fans of the international espionage genre will inhale this fast tale in a few suspenseful breaths. Brookes uses multiple narrators—the spy, the engineer, the journalist, the agent, the boss—whose conflicting alliances tell the real story. [See Prepub Alert, 1/19/14.]