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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
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Label: St. Martin's Press
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Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: June 27, 2006
Publishing house: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: June 27, 2006
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The death of a French intelligence agent on an Air France flight to Amman, Jordan, is the trigger that launches Tommy Carmellini's latest adventure. Within the European Union, the national espionage agencies are fiercely competing for supremacy against each other -- and against the CIA. When the Americans discover that the director of the French spy agency has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine, alarm bells go off. To investigate, the Americans send Jake Grafton, who has been brought back from retirement to unravel a tangle of espionage, terrorism and murder. And of course, the man Grafton wants on the point is Tommy Carmellini. Together they uncover an elaborate strategy to infiltrate the highest levels of Al Qaeda with a top-level plant -- but who is playing whom? As Carmellini delves deep undercover he finds he is running for his life. Grafton and Carmellini uncover a horrifying plan to shake the West as never before -- and a Catch-22: Can they stop the conspiracy without compromising the intelligence source that could bring down Al Qaeda once and for all?
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Exellent book! Coonts has keep me into it again. Looking forward to getting the subsequent in the series.
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This review is directed predominately at the audio performance. Other reviewers have accurately portrayed the quality of the book in some detail. On its own, I'd give it no more than two stars. The plot is pedestrian and predictable. The rating diminishes to one star with the audio performance, which is truly execrable. The reader, Dennis Boutsikaris, appears capable of running the gamut of emotion from only A to B. Much of the book takes place in France, and his endeavor at delivering English with a French accent is so bad it's laughable. The only thing worse is his pronunciation of French itself. For anyone here who remembers seeing any of The Bowery Boys movies on TV as a kid, this statement will have meaning: I'd sooner hear the accent (French OR English) of Leo Gorcey and his pals than this clown. He also narrated another audio book I had the misfortune to buy: Jeffery Deaver's The Twelfth Card, where he took a much better book than The Traitor and made it a laughingstock. As of this writing, Amazon sellers are offering it for as little as 20 cents. Enough said? Note to producers of audio books: If you can't find any performers better than this, scrap the project!
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I was excited to see The Traitor available for the Kindle and jumped at the very first opportunity to read another book by Coonts. Having read Liberty and Liars & Thieves, I thought another Coonts book would be fantastic. Unfortunately it seems the bar has been lowered.
Without giving away any of the story, it felt that Coonts didn't know where he wanted to go with the plot. Not much even happens until the last couple of chapters and a lot goes on that really isn't explained. Perhaps my previous Coonts novels set my expectations high and a newcomer would love this book, but I suggest Liars & Thieves over The Traitor.
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I don't think The Traitor is up to stephen coonts usual excellent story lines. I found this book a disappointment.
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Typical cookie cutter international thriller. The author places the hero in the Special Collection Service, a little known but important element of the intel community. However he then gives Tommy duties that have nothing to do with the SCS. Nice try. Late in the book after doing a brief search the hero and his boss find multiple explosive devices at a G8 meeting site that the entire French security establishment had missed. I bow to no one in my low esteem for the frogs but that is a bit much even for me. Two main characters and one secondary character are jailbirds. Think about it, if you wanted people who are reliable, able to think through the consequences of their actions and who can keep a secret would you go to a jail to find them? Don't think so. Anyway this is barely, barely a book you might want to buy for a vacation or business trip. I started it in Tunis on a business trip and got 3/4 of the way through before I came home. It has taken me almost two weeks to finish the other 1/4. That about sums up the book.
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