Spy novels are always fun to read when it is so hot outside you can’t even open the front door or if you are sipping lemonade at the beach.  Regardless of your environment, this new novel by Anna Pitoniak will certainly keep you entertained!

Amanda Cole was not expecting a defector walk into the Embassy  right in the middle of her busy day, but when the security detail  called and said a Russian man was asking for her and wanted to defect, she cleared her schedule to listen to what he had to say. What she heard was terrifying. The man warned her that there was a plot to assassinate a US Senator within 24 hours. Amanda takes the warning seriously and passes the information to her superiors, but they don’t believe the information and do nothing. Twenty four hours later the Senator is dead.

Amanda believes that something sinister is behind the assassination and the chagrinned Director of the CIA directs her and Kath Roberts a legendary spy with an unbelievable memory, to find out what is happening.  Amanda begins to pull on the few threads she has to follow. One of those threads, are notes left by the senator right before his death. Among the notations Amanda finds her father’s name. Amanda’s father was a spy for the CIA during the Cold War but is no longer with the agency. What was his name doing in the Senator’s notes? With very little time, Amanda, tries to unravel the reason for the Senator’s death and to try to stop whatever plot Russia has now developed to wage war against the West.

Pitoniak is a new author who has brought to the spy novel genre a new and different perspective with fresh female characters and voices. I hope that we continue to hear from her and be able to follow Cole and Roberts on new missions!

Brenda’s Rating: **** (4 Out Of 5 Stars)

Recommend this book to: Martin, Sharon, Lauren and Keith 

Book Study Worthy? Yes

Read in e-library format.