Review: Thriller and Suspense At Its Best!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
FLIGHT 12: A KRISTIN CUNNINGHAM THRILLER  FLIGHT 12 is a truly fast paced suspense book giving the readers a story that is totally hard to figure out until the end. Kristin Cunningham is an experienced FBI agent who was shot in the line of duty one year earlier.  In an unsuccessful assassination attempt on President Cartwright, Kristen took a bullet shattering her knee.  Kristin knee Rehab is keeping her out of any field assignments.  Special Agent in Charge Keith Thompson is keeping Kristen on desk duty.  Suspense begins when agents in Boston Field Office capture Ivan Lukyanov, i a member of the Russian Odessa Mafia dealing in human trafficking.  When SAC Thompson learns that Ivan will help break up the Russian organization with the arrest of the leader, Dimitri Kobachev, Thompson asks Kristin to go in undercover posing as a young woman Ivan has kidnapped.  When Kristin agrees, Leverone increases the suspense, danger, and thrills up to the highest level.  They give Ivan a car and the opportunity be alone with Kristin bound with duct tape, as he drives to the meet Ivan double crosses the other FBI agents and escapes with FBI Agent Cunningham as his hostage.  We follow Lukyanov's  escape with Kristin as his hostage.  Leverone keeps increasing the danger to Kristin's life as Ivan Lukyanov continues his escape and  prepares to leave the country.  Kristin is amazed with at Ivan's well organized escape plans.  Ivan has to get to New York without being caught, dispose of Kristin and go the JFK Airport to catch Flight 12 to Rome.  The story changes direction at every turn and the unpredictable actions of Ivan and Kristin.  Flight 12 is scheduled to leave for Rome at Midnight.  I enjoyed this well written suspenseful story by Allan Leverone  keeping  readers at the edge of their seats.  I look forward to seeing who gets to board  Flight 12 in the next  11 stories presented by the group of authors known as THE TWELVE.  Each author contributes a story that builds toward a very unpredictable ending.  I rank this story with a well earned  5 stars.  The story concept is intriguing, but  I think the details of the process are vague and I had to search for the details to find comfort with each of the authors of  THE TWELVE writing a story around a favorite character and everyone including the readers having input on the ending.  I look forward to the final story.