Review: I can't "State" my enjoyment of this book enough!  @badwordplay
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 12, 2014
This is an exciting political thriller, set around the kidnapping of the US Secretary of State in Pakistan.  Special Agent Tom Dupree is tasked with finding her, and bringing her home safe.  He only has 3 days to do this, however, because her captors have given an ultimatum:  Adhere to their demands, or in 3 days, she will be beheaded.I picked a very pertinent time to check this book out, because it has to deal a lot with “negotiating with terrorists”, something that has been very prevalent in the news over the last couple of weeks.  It deals with the political quagmire surrounding hostage negotiations, or hostage rescues, whichever the case may be.  The negotiators have to walk this tightrope, in order to keep the Secretary of State alive, and keep this country out of war.This was a very well paced political thriller, that kept me reading for much longer than I intended to each night.  When I read a book like this, I try to guess what the ending is, or the twist is, but about halfway through this I gave up.  There is just so much stuff going on, I couldn’t keep thinking about the “What If’s” and possibilities the entire time.  It was very entertaining, and I thought the entire experience was very satisfying through the end.