by Stuart Woods (His best book!)
This is a supercharged political crime novel. Normally, I avoid anything which even approximates political, but this one was the exception. Reading the first few pages piqued my interest and I had a difficult time putting it down, carrying the paperback with me and reading every spare minute I had, until it was done.
It begins with a BANG.. the execution-stlye murder of South Carolina Republican Senator Frederick Wallace, an extreme right wing politician. The crime scene is clean and the kill is professional. The next victim is right wing radio talk show host Van Vandervelt whose car explodes. The killer attains official serial status when conservative TV commentator Tim Brennan is poisoned. The republicans, borrowing a page from Senator Clinton, blame the murders on a vast left-wing conspiracy to destroy the United States. Of course politics must be included so they tie the killers to President William Henry Lee IV.
It becomes apparent, quickly, that someone is out to kill the nation's high-level politicos when a prominent conservative politician is killed inside his lakeside cabin. Authorities have no suspect in sight. Then two more seemingly isolated deaths, achieved by very different means, are feared to be linked to the same murderer. With the help of his CIA director wife, Kate Rule Lee, Will is thrust in the middle of the deadly game to catch this most clever and professional of killers before he can strike again. From a quiet D.C. suburb, to the corridors of power, and to a deserted island hideaway in Maine, Will, Kate, and the FBI track their man and set a trap with extreme caution and care-and await the most dangerous kind of quarry, a killer with a cause to die for. The "bad guy" came as a complete surprise when he is revealed as are his reasons for the killings.
Review by Nan Sevic
It begins with a BANG.. the execution-stlye murder of South Carolina Republican Senator Frederick Wallace, an extreme right wing politician. The crime scene is clean and the kill is professional. The next victim is right wing radio talk show host Van Vandervelt whose car explodes. The killer attains official serial status when conservative TV commentator Tim Brennan is poisoned. The republicans, borrowing a page from Senator Clinton, blame the murders on a vast left-wing conspiracy to destroy the United States. Of course politics must be included so they tie the killers to President William Henry Lee IV.
It becomes apparent, quickly, that someone is out to kill the nation's high-level politicos when a prominent conservative politician is killed inside his lakeside cabin. Authorities have no suspect in sight. Then two more seemingly isolated deaths, achieved by very different means, are feared to be linked to the same murderer. With the help of his CIA director wife, Kate Rule Lee, Will is thrust in the middle of the deadly game to catch this most clever and professional of killers before he can strike again. From a quiet D.C. suburb, to the corridors of power, and to a deserted island hideaway in Maine, Will, Kate, and the FBI track their man and set a trap with extreme caution and care-and await the most dangerous kind of quarry, a killer with a cause to die for. The "bad guy" came as a complete surprise when he is revealed as are his reasons for the killings.
Review by Nan Sevic
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