
The Counterfeit Agent
John Wells Series, Book 8
فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2014
نویسنده
George Guidallناشر
Recorded Books, Inc.شابک
9781470397692
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- نقد و بررسی
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December 23, 2013
Edgar-winner Berenson's action-packed eighth John Wells novel (after 2013's The Night Ranger) finds the ex-CIA man on an Atlantic cruise with his girlfriend, Anne, to whom he proposes. Anne turns him down, saying he must choose between her or his job, and soon enough he's off on a new mission to stop Iran from killing a CIA station chief. A woman calling herself Salome, who's working for an international secret agency that may have no ties to any government, is running the operation, whose actual purpose is to trick the American government into bombing Iran. Wells must go up against the CIA as well as the secret agency in trying to ferret out the truth, but he can't accomplish it all, so the end, while satisfying, almost certainly points to a follow-up volume. Thriller fans will eagerly await the return of the estimable, if romantically challenged, Wells to finish the job. Agent: Heather Schroder, ICM.

The latest John Wells thriller takes the semi-retired CIA hero deep into a mysterious plot to move supposed Middle Eastern nukes into American cities. George Guidall delivers a solid, if uninspired, rendering of a story that might have benefited from a more active narration. His pacing is good, but his voicing is too monochromatic. While character definition is there, it lacks sufficient color. Much of the action revolves around hardly credible scenarios within the CIA and the unidentified enemy camp. Textural shortcomings are often substantially overcome by an inspired narration. Alas, not this time. M.C. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
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