Review: Don't miss this at this price
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 30, 2012
If you had picked up Mr. Sargent's "Seven Days from Sunday" at the airport on the way to your summer vacation, it would be a very good read for $8.  For $1 it is a must.  It has an interesting locale (the markets, homes, farms, and Green Zone of Iraq), a suitable cast of heroic CIA operators, and pace provided by an exciting countdown to a threatened attack.  OK, the latter isn't exactly new, but it works.  I can find little to fault, to be honest, but I did have a sense that the special unit known as MP-5 was on a very, very long leash from Langley.  Given the nature of the threat, it seemed there were surprisingly few occasions when headquarters wanted to be informed in real time.  A very different picture from that painted in, for instance, the Bourne series, and one that I suspect is rarely found in the real world.  But what do I know?  Regardless, "Seven Days" is definitely a winner.