Kirkus Reviews highlights their review of DS Kane's ProxyWar, Book 6 of the Spies Lie series

This morning, Friday, March 4, 2016, I received an email from Crystal Timbeross of Kirkus Reviews (www.kirkusreviews.com):

Hi David,

I hope you are well since we last spoke. I'm following up to let you know that your review for “ProxyWar" was selected by our Indie Editors to be featured in Kirkus Reviews 3/1 Issues. Congratulations! Your review will appear as one of the 35 reviews in the Indie section of the 3/1 Kirkus Reviews magazine which is sent out to over 5,000 industry professionals (librarians, publishers, agents, etc.) Less than 10% of our Indie reviews are chosen for this, so it's a great honor.

On page 154 of the March 1 issue, Kirkus Reviews highlighted their review of DS Kane's ProxyWar, Book 6 of the Spies Lie series. For your convenience, I've embedded their review below:

“PROXYWAR

Kane, DS

The SwiftshadowGroup, Inc. (338 pp.)

$15.99 paper | $3.99 e-book

Nov. 27, 2015

978-0-9862321-6-9

 

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