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" #1 New York Times-bestselling author Catherine Coulter returns with the newest full-throttle adventure in the FBI series featuring Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock. Natalie Black, the U.S. ambassador to the Court of St. James, has returned to Washington, her job in jeopardy. Her fiance;, George McCallum, Viscount Lockenby, has died in a car accident, and mysterious rumors begin that she's responsible begin to surface: she broke off the engagement and, heartbroken, he killed himself. Then someone tries to force her off the M-2 outside London. Again, rumors claim it was a sympathy ploy. When she returns to the United States, she's nearly killed when a car tries to mow her down while she's out for a run. No one believes her except FBI Special Agent Davis Sullivan. Meanwhile someone is following Sherlock. A stalker? Then someone tries to shoot her from the back of a motorcycle, but the assailant gets away. Sherlock next gets a call from an Atlanta mental hospital warning her that Blessed Backman has escaped. This is not good news. Blessed is a talented psychopath out for revenge against the agents, primarily Sherlock, whom his dying mother begged him to kill since she and Savich brought down her cult. How to find out who's trying to kill the ambassador to the U.K.? How can they get their hands on Blessed Backman before he succeeds and kills Sherlock? The clock is ticking and the danger intensifies"--… (more)
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But these books always contain two cases and the second one involves the couple du jour, sportswriter Perry Black and Special Agent Davis Sullivan when Perry’s mother, the U S Ambassador to the United Kingdom, is the target in a number of assassination attempts and now Perry is being threatened.
This time the story and action all take place on the home front and Savich and Sherlock are involved in both cases. Blessed just doesn’t give up so there’s plenty of action and drama on that end as well as break-ins and shoot-outs on the other.
As always there is plenty of humor, mostly in the form of conversations, which makes the characters fun to read about. But long ago I found it somewhat annoying that so many of her characters across both this series as well as her historicals have the same sense of humor and love of food, almost like they're talking with the same voice. I’ve learned to accept that this isn’t going to change and just go with the flow.
The author’s love of football is evident in this story, although thankfully we don’t get buried in it. But we do see how and why the media feel it’s so important to dig up information on celebrities that we really have no business knowing. And we get politics in this one in the form of the Ambassador, the Secretary of State, the President and a Senator.
On the whole I enjoyed both the story and the characters and found it to be a fairly fast-clipped read.
Normally, I really enjoy Catherine Coulter's writing but not this time.
Natalie Black is the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Her fiance dies in an auto accident and there are rumors that she is responsible.
Her daughter, Perry, is a very
Natalie returns to the U.S. and someone appears to be stalking Perry. The reader is led to believe the stalker is Psychopath Blessed Blackman. FBI also believes that Blackman who has escaped from prison, might be at work again since there is a link between Blackman and Davis Sullivan.
I read the first couple of hundred pages but found I was forcing myself to continue. Therefore I put the book aside and hope for a more entertaining novel for the next read.
Pass this one up.
Meanwhile, someone tries to kill Special Agent Lacy Sherlock, who is Dillon Savich's wife.
It turns out Blessed Backman has escaped and is after Sherlock and Savich. To understand who Blessed is and why the thin he is so dangerous you need to have read Knock Out.
There are references to Nicholas Drummond and the case he solved in "The Final Cut" 1st in the Brit in the FBI series. And they are setting up for the next Brit in the FBI series. But you don't really need to have read Final Cut before reading this book.
This is a good thriller. Very little Paranormal. Just a small amount of Blessman's ability to control people.
I was interest to see how it turned out.