review by showhost
Well I'd read one of his before and it was in the charity shop so I thought I'd give it a go. I finished it and thought I'd better write a review before I start another book. But I sat there and thought 'Ok, so, what was it about'? Erm, not a lot was my initial response! 600 pages of not a lot. I had to push myself to go back to the book in the beginning but by the middle I was looking to pick it up - although not rushing to. I did think it's a book that Brian Lowen might enjoy as he likes his spy stories.
We have two organizations one is official one is not. The unofficial one is a kind of vigilante group who are out to annihilate war criminals. In their team we have a professor, an Irishman and a woman named Reggie, who they use to lure the older men, plus other players. They set their sights on Evan Waller (alias Kuchin), a Ukrainian war criminal who killed thousands in his reign in the KGB and has kept footage to show it. Evan is now dealing in human trafficking/selling nuclear arms to the arabs/ drugs - in fact anything that will make him rich.
Unbeknown to them the official organization is also after Evan Waller but they are more interested in the fact that he is dealing with the sale of nuclear weapons to the arabs. They are also out to annihilate him. In this team we have Shaw, Katie James and Frank, besides others.
Their paths cross in Provence and Shaw and Reggie become more interested in each other than they should.
The unofical organization pull out of the assignment when the arms deal goes wrong and Weller tortures/kills the buyers. But Shaw is now worried about Reggies safety. The unofficial hit goes wrong, Shaw rescues Reggie and the Irishman but Weller & his closest men escape.
Weller goes into hiding but plans to finish off Agent Shaw and Reggie. He sets a trap and lures them in. Do they escape - well either read it or guess!
Well, it was at times very predictable and I didn't really care one way or the other about Shaw, he wasn't a character who you 'gelled' with . It had moments where you wanted to read on.
Looking at the reviews on Amazon there was a lot of disappointed Baldacci fans and I think I will take a tip from one of them and read Stone, Annabelle, or Mace, if I were to pick another of his books. But hey, if you like 'boy adventure' type books, with occasional descriptive torture scenes then you'll like this. Bit James Bondy (plus pussygalore!!) without the gadgets
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