It looks like a modern day Manchurian Candidate has just taken place. Some neo-Nazi’s who are hiding behind a church of devil worshipers (or is it vice versa?) had programmed a British crime writer to take out the US President.
This book opens up with the government/FBI working on deprogramming Matt Wells when random people are showing up dead from some quasi-religious ritual. The FBI gets the bright idea to put Wells out there as bait to draw out the head of the church and whomever is doing the killing, asking Wells right after his wife and son die in childbirth. Great timing Fibbies.
I struggled with this book. It seemed like part 2. Usually when a story or character carries to the next book, the author tells the reader enough to get going in the subsequent book. Not this one. I was scratching my head, page after page. And the eventual survival of the wife and son was a bit much. And the number of supporters of this church of dregs highly placed in the government was beyond comprehension. This was a mess that I forced myself to finish. Had I been smart, I would have put this down promptly and gotten into the King book just posted.
East Coast Don
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