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Sailim
, June 29, 2022
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If Maggie is an example of the people who serve as analysts for the CIA or House Intelligence Committee, I can certainly understand why foreign affairs and National Security are such a mess. Someone who works for these departments cannot be asked to lock her doors? And no one seems to care that her friend is stealing classified documents?
Maggie bumbles around and has to trip over a dozen obvious clues before she manages to figure it out – or someone tells her. The bay guy is obvious from the very beginning – well both of them. All three? Guess it depends on how you count. There was no mystery for the reader, only for a character of limited intelligence.
The rather major issue is that the book doesn’t end so much as it stops. There is no resolution. The matters are left unresolved. Rather than enticing one to read the next installment (yes, unfortunately, there is one), it is like a door being slammed in one’s face mid-sentence. Whilst addressing the style of author Susan Ouellette, she could not keep her details straight. Maggie worked for the CIA and trained at the Farm but then later claims her late fiancé taught her how to shoot a gun.
For a book that allegedly had to be cleared by the CIA before it could be published, it lacks all credibility. Perhaps that is more down to the CIA edits than Ouellette’s writing, but it doesn’t feel that way.
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