"New York Timesbestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by scandal, and how the lies we tell one another--and ourselves--can never truly stay buried. The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed by a powerful gossip website called Slander Sheet, which specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written an expose claiming that he had liaisons with an escort, a young woman willing to appear on video and tell the world her salacious yet convincing tale. But the chief justice is not without formidable allies, and his greatest supporter is determined to stop the story in its tracks. Nick Heller is a private spy--a private intelligence operative based in Boston, hired by lawyers, politicians, and even foreign governments. Known as both a maverick and a dedicated, high-powered investigator, he's called to Washington, DC, to help out in this delicate, potentially explosive situation. Nick has just forty-eight hours to prove the story about the chief justice is baseless. But when the call girl is found murdered, the case takes an unexpected and dangerous turn, and Nick resolves to find the true mastermind behind the Slander Sheet story before anyone else falls victim to the maelstrom of political scandal and ruined reputations predicated upon one carefully concealed secret"--
Trigger Warning: Suicide, Kidnapping, Murder, Conspiracies. Bunch of deranged white people running around getting away with shit no POC could.
The Gist:
➜Didn’t realize it was a series
➜Can be read as a standalone with no problem
➜Nick Heller is detached, clinical as is the writing
➜Could easily be an action/thriller movie with some bland, tall mediocre white guy as the lead
➜Obligatory hook up
➜Several damsels in distress
➜Hard to feel anything when the MC doesn’t.
➜Lots of details on the practical skills required to pull everything off.
➜Author clearly did his research.
➜Saw the hidden Bad Guy waaaay early. As soon as his father opened his mouth actually, though I was suspicious beforehand.
➜Some events were obvious, some weren’t, but I can’t say was shocked.
➜Given the intro with “I can tell when people are lying” I expected more than just random gut feelings and unexpected questions.
➜Typical action thriller with former military dude going outside the lines despite protesting he doesn’t do it much and doesn’t like to
➜Really liked Nick’s nephew
➜Recommended for fans of the series and white guys allergic to feelings wanting mindless action.
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29 January, 2017:
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