Wow! I’ve been told that reviews sell books, and great reviews make bestsellers. Well, I Just received this email from Anna M. Cooper of Kirkus Reviews:
Hi David,
I hope you're well. I wanted to reach out and let
you know that our review of ProxyWar was included in the January
22nd, 2016 content feed to Kirkus' licensees, which included Barnes &
Noble, Google, Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and more. Your review appeared in
the feed along with the reviews of books published by traditional publishers
and is made available to consumers and industry professionals (booksellers,
librarians, publishers, agents, etc.) via these outlets. Congratulations!
… your review is now published on Kirkus.com and
was distributed to our licensees…
All the best,
Anna M. Cooper
I’m so pleased that, ProxyWar, my newest title in the
Spies Lie series has been so well received by the prestigious Kirkus
Reviews organization. In case you haven’t read the review, I’ve placed
it immediately below for your convenience:
“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
