This is my third Lindsey book, and this is the first one that left me somewhat disappointed. It had a complicated plot about a clandestine operation by CIA contractors and their attempts to assassinate Ghazi Baida. Baida is a Lebanese terrorist who is operating out of the triple border region in South America, the area where the borders of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay come together. It’s a rugged jungle near the lawless towns of Ciudad Del Este in Paraguay and Foz de Iguacu in Brazil, near the spectacular Iguacu Falls that I visited last year. After starting in Ciudad Del Este, a city that Daniel Sylva wrote about in his last book, the action moved to Mexico City, and that’s where most of this book took place – and I thought that was probably the best part. On the one hand, the plot was incredibly complex and interesting, but on the other hand, it relied on a cheap old ploy of identical twin brothers who could be mistaken for each other, even by people who knew them well. Bern and Jude who grew up in different cities and who did not know of one another until after one of them was already dead. Still, if one could suspend reality for a bit, Lindsey was at least somewhat captivating with the twin device, and the last 100 pages felt like one fast and bumpy ride, as if I was in an out-of-control raft on a treacherous river, tumbling down a long cascade, violently bumping off one rock to the next. So, it was good and bad, not a total loss, by any means, but I find the identical-twin-thing to be a barely tolerable story line.
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