Bestseller Lustbader's wordy sequel to First Daughter
takes dyslexic Jack McClure, former ATF agent and now adviser to recently elected U.S. president Edward Carson, to Moscow, where Carson is negotiating an important treaty with Russian president Yukin. When minority whip Sen. Lloyd Berns dies in a mysterious hit-and-run accident on Capri, the president asks Jack to investigate. Accompanied by Annika, a beautiful Federal Security Bureau agent who's part of a complicated Russian trap, and Alli, Carson's 22-year-old daughter whom Jack saved from a bad guy in the previous book, Jack travels to Ukraine, where Berns was supposed to be on a fact-finding tour. In Kiev, Jack finds a secret agency called Trinadtsat
, a shadowy group of Russian oligarchs, and plenty of trouble, including a retired American general out to have him killed. Lustbader fritters away many pages with Jack's navel-gazing, time that could have been better spent in gunfights and derring-do. (Feb.)
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Reviewed on: 12/21/2009
Release date: 02/01/2010
Genre: Fiction
Mass Market Paperbound - 517 pages - 9780765364364
Hardcover - 414 pages - 9780765325150
Other - 416 pages - 9781429957908
Paperback - 416 pages - 9781781850787
Other - 280 pages - 9781781853016