Review: Intrigue Within Ranks
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2013
On Laura Chapman's first day at the White House there would be an assassination attempt. On her last official day, years later, there would be another attempt. Laura knew she was under surveillance. She was resentful, but she would let it play out for a few more days. Her survival instinct kicked in. She ran a test. The watchers looked like policewomen. When a woman passed mid-thirties, the bosses couldn't wait to shove her out the door. The Service hierarchy still had the boy's-only mentality.Now, Laura was singled out for a major assignment. This was a nightmare. She had been kicked into high gear. We have telling intrigue and suspense. Negative put-downs are compressed into a fervid book. Though they might live to be doddering, infuriated queer acting ducks, they are the protectors of vulnerable colleagues. And this book is your cover charge for realization of some amazing facts.Noel Hynd punches out a stepped-up paced novel that hones knife sharp the readers interest. This novel about the Secret Service in Washington is realistic, with an abundance of excitement, and cynicism, earned by a degree of ineffectiveness that reverberates from high echelon officers down to the lowest peon agent. Secretive, ferret-like assignments are revealed as ludicrous, asinine actions overwritten with covert mystique. Not intentionally comedic, the overtones are tongue-in-cheek.