Periodically, a really good thriller coincides with the perfect real-world climate for its plot: this is such a one. Investigative reporter Eddy brings back Grace Flint, undercover cop and international op par excellence, in this sequel to his debut novel, Flint. Flint is now married and has the run of a Connecticut estate, but hasn't given up her day job working for salty FBI vet Aldus Cutter and his Financial Strike Force, an international team of cops and intelligence officers out to shut down the money laundering operations of the world. The book
opens with a disastrous mission failure on the southern tip of Manhattan in which a member of Flint's team is killed. Though the initiative is called off, Flint starts her own off-the-books search for the quarry, crisscrossing the Atlantic from New York to Leipzig on the trail of an elusive German with a flair for hiding the money trail. Meanwhile, Flint's husband turns out to be a cipher, a mole planted inside the FSF by parties unknown. And no one is safe: Flint's father is brutally assaulted and left for dead on his English farm, and Flint herself is now in the crosshairs. But who is behind the gun? The FSF? MI6? A ruthless ex-Stasi thug left over from the Cold War? And what makes Flint such a highly prized target? Eddy's plotting will once again leave audiences breathless, and it's the rare male reader who won't have a crush on Flint by the book's end. Eddy is clearly on to something here. (July)
