"Twice” picks up almost right after Once a Spy ends with
Drummand and Charlie Clark escaping to Europe with the goal of trying to settle in Switzerland to get some experimental
treatments for Drummond’s issues with early-onset Alzheimers.
The CIA is still after the Clarks, worried that Drummond
will blurt out deep cover secrets specifically those about Operation Placebo
and that won’t be good.
In trying to track down remnants of Placebo, Drummond and
Charlie are flown to Martinique where Drummond flips between lucidity and blank
stares in the various chases and close calls to find Placebo in an underground
cavern only to lose it again.
But where is Placebo headed is the next question-Europe?
India? China? US? And where specifically. The CIA has their thoughts, but Charlie
has other ideas.
This really in part deux for the Clarks. Thomson gradually
shifts the emphasis from Drummond to Charlie as his maturing skills and
instincts take center stage. Thomson has a new book coming out in 2014. Not sure
if it follows Father/son Clark, but if it does, I’m sure it will be full of
close calls, outrageous tradecraft, snarky comments, and fast paced, perils of
Pauline action. Not a great thriller, it's sort of in it's own category. A comic thriller?. Not enough to enter the power rotation, but that doesn’t make
it any less entertaining. A quick read. Lots of fun.
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