“In the sixth book
in Kane’s (Baksheesh Bribes, 2015, etc.) Spies Lie series, a motley crew
of spies, hackers, and mercenaries unite to stop China and Russia from
declaring war on the United States.
Former Mossad
spymaster Yigdal Ben-Levy is dying of cancer, but he refuses to live out his
remaining days in a hospice. Rather, he’s dead set on getting from Washington,
D.C., to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, so that he can
warn its members of a plot cooked up by Russia and China to attack America.
What’s bad for the United States is bad for Israel, and Ben-Levy refuses to die
with his beloved country in limbo after devoting his entire life to keeping it
safe. In order to make it to the U.N. without getting killed by Russian and
Chinese assassination squads, he calls on Jon Sommers, a former Mossad recruit
who’s now working as a banker in New York. Sommers is furious with Ben-Levy,
who’s responsible for the death of his fiancée, but when the dying man calls on
him in his hour of need, he reluctantly agrees to help. He teams up with
Israeli-soldier-turned-mercenary Avram Shimmel, expert hacker William Wing, and
former covert operative Cassandra Sashakovich, a Russian, to get the job done.
The strengths of this thriller are its lack of especially graphic violence and
relatively straightforward plotline, both of which make it more accessible than
previous installments. Other Spies Lie stories occasionally got so complicated
that it was difficult to keep track of whom to root for. The story here
essentially boils down to a long chase scene, packed with action movie set
pieces that wouldn’t be out of place in a Michael Bay film. Kane neatly ties up
all the loose ends left over from the roller-coaster story arc that began in Bloodridge
(2014), while also setting up Jon, Cassie, Avram, William, and company for
further adventures together, which will please fans and give newcomers an
opportunity to enter this addictive fictional world.
The latest adventure
in a series that only grows more engaging with each installment.” — Kirkus Reviews
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