DEATHBYTE
Book
2 of the Spies Lie Series
Kane,
DS
The
Swiftshadow Group, Inc. (354 pp.)
$14.99
paperback, $3.99 e-book
ISBN:
978-0996059138; June 12, 2014
In
the second installment of the Spies Lie thriller series, a covert agent
reunites with his allies as intelligence agencies battle over a revolutionary
tracking device.
Master
hacker William Wing discovers that someone has broken into his Hong Kong apartment
and stolen all the secrets on his computer—secrets that belong to clients such
as Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Afraid that he’ll be killed as a result
of the breach, he reaches out to his friend Jon Sommers, a former Mossad
assassin who’s now working undercover in a German bank (and having a hot-and-heavy
romance with fellow spy Ruth Cohen). The thief is revealed to be Cassandra
Sashakovich, an agent with an unnamed American intelligence agency who had been
ratted out by a mole, raped by a terrorist and is now running for her life. The
data she made off with includes plans for a tiny tracking gadget that allows
one to see through the eyes of the person who swallows it; naturally, many
people would kill to get their hands on it. Sommers brings together his few
trusted allies, including hardened soldier Avram Shimmel, to help Wing and
prevent the plans from falling into the wrong hands—but whose hands are the
wrong ones? Kane (Bloodridge, 2014) purports to be a former spy himself,
and his extensive knowledge of the ways that the world’s governments wage covert
war on one another shines through in his incredibly detailed prose. At times,
however, these details grow overwhelming and make it hard to keep track of who’s
spying on whom and why. However, readers who adore action-packed thrillers in
the vein of Robert Ludlum’s Bourne series will enjoy its many double-crossings.
However, some readers should be warned: There are graphic scenes of torture
excruciating enough to possibly make one’s stomach turn. Indeed, so many
upsetting things happen to the main characters that it may be easy for readers
to grow despondent about the state of the world by the time the story reaches
its firestorm of a conclusion.
A dizzying
spy story for readers with clear minds and steely constitutions.
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