Late night in Cape Town, South Africa. Everyone is scrambling to find the missing cargo. "Who ever finds it gets a triple bonus!" A young Christine Palmer is sailing solo across the Atlantic in memory of her newly dead father. She checking the boat when she finds a man barley alive in the frigid...
Maybe contemporary conspiracy spy thrillers just aren't my thing. I even finished the last 20% hoping it would redeem itself enough to earn 2 stars, but alas... I found the writing banal, wordy at times, then blatantly obvious and lacking in subtlety when it came to laying on the tension and myst...
He could think of only one way. He walked to Geitawi Hospital, and at the main entrance encountered a reception desk staffed by a pair of young women, one of whom was talking on a phone. Slaton approached the other, and said, “I’m looking for Dr. Nassoor.” The woman replied in the English he’d st...
The brown desert was baked into layers that had cracked for lack of moisture, and a high midday sun was vulcanizing everything in sight.Davis set his bag on the tarmac in front of FBN Aviation. Standing on the groomed concrete, a searing wind snapping at the cuffs of his pants, he filled his lung...
Mother demurred, while Alex took two. Lydia had hoped lunch would be a distraction, but so far the time with Alex had only served to muddle her nervous thoughts further. She couldn't speak without examining every word, lest anything incriminating slip out. A cinnamon scone fell to her plate."You ...
The apartment was situated on the first floor of a five-story affair, a welcome advantage—surprise was far easier to keep without ten sets of boots clambering up switchback staircases. He watched a cat on the front step nose hopefully around an empty saucer. There was one window on the face of th...
President." Townsend got up to leave. "All right everyone, carry on." When he got to the hallway, Townsend's secretary handed him a piece of paper listing the names of the wife and children of the prime minister of India. The guy had seven kids. Townsend sighed and began to memorize. Back in the ...