Review: Quite a departure
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 5, 2013
I have enjoyed this author's previous series and I enjoyed this book, it is however, quite a departure in almost every way from what we are used to getting from this writer.  If you are a person who likes justice in black and white only, you will hate this book-shades of grey abound.  This is one of those stories that makes the reader a little uncomfortable for its realistic take on how justice is sometimes served.  The heroine in this book has been tortured in an Afghan prison for seven months after being captured and disavowed by the CIA.  She is rescued by an operator working at the behest of the shadowy Committee.  The person she comes to know as their representative also as it turns out knew her father years ago and asks that she do an assassination on a human trafficker the Committee has deemed must be eliminated.  I like the fact the heroine was freed from prison but that didn't magically make her whole-she suffers from PTSD and a certain flatness to her affect that I imagine to be quite realistic.  She does have a finely tuned sense of right and wrong and is not afraid to act.  The writing, as always when it comes to this author is impeccable-well plotted and paced.  The characters are complex and interesting and I wholeheartedly recommend this book to all who don't mind being a little unsettled in aid of a good story.