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Summary
Summary
Award-winning, rising star thriller author Jamie Freveletti brings a fresh and female voice to Covert-One with her new novel!
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president was forced to establish his own clandestine group--Covert-One. It is activated only as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out.
The Janus Reprisal
It begins with a terrorist attack. Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is attending a conference in The Hague on infectious diseases, together with leading scientists and political figures from around the world. Without warning, the conference hotel is consumed in a bloodbath. Smith is caught in the crossfire and barely escapes . . . but not before discovering a picture of himself and two other targets in the pocket of one of the shooters.
But the hotel is not the only location under attack in The Hague. Bombs are going off at the train station, the airport, and the International Criminal Court, where Pakistani warlord Oman Dattar is being held while he's tried for crimes against humanity. In the resulting chaos, the prisoner escapes.
Dattar nurses a special hatred for the United States and its allies. With his freedom, and access to a mysterious new weapon, Dattar puts in motion a murderous, ambitious plot to exact his revenge and bring down the West once and for all--unless Covert-One can stop him.
Author Notes
Jamie Freveletti s the internationally bestselling and ITW- and Barry Award-winning author of thrillers Dead Asleep, Running from the Devil, Running Dark, and The Ninth Day . A trial attorney with a diploma in international studies, she is an avid distance runner and holds a black belt in Aikido, a Japanese martial art. She lives in Chicago with her family.
Robert Ludlum was the author of twenty-seven novels, each one a New York Times bestseller. There are more than 225 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into thirty-two languages. He is the author of The Scarlatti Inheritance, The Chancellor Manuscript, and the Jason Bourne series -- The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum -- among others. Mr. Ludlum passed away in March 2001. To learn more, visit www.Robert-Ludlum.com.
Reviews 2
Publisher's Weekly Review
Freveletti is the sixth author to make use of Ludlum's Covert-One concept and she provides the kind of high-octane action that Ludlum fans have come to expect. She wastes no time plunging the reader into the middle of things, opening with series lead Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith-an Army doctor who's an expert on infectious diseases and an operative for Covert-One, "one of the deepest black operations in the US intelligence community"-waking up at gunpoint. Smith is in The Hague for a meeting of the World Health Organization when terrorists attack his hotel. Unsurprisingly, Smith manages to survive, despite being taken off-guard, and when the dust settles, begins to pursue why he, along with two others, were specifically targeted by the gunmen. The motive is probably connected with the escape of Oman Dattar, a Pakistani charged with crimes against humanity, from the custody of the International Criminal Court. The storyline isn't as original as in Kyle Mills' contribution to the series (2011's The Ares Decision), but the quality of writing elevates it above many similar books. Agent: Barbara Poelle, Irene Goodman Literary Agency. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
From the opening sentence that literally starts with a bang, the latest Covert One novel speeds along at a breakneck pace. Agent Jon Smith wakes up in his hotel room and has to dive to the floor to avoid a bullet. Mayhem ensues as terrorists attack the hotel. Smith climbs onto a window ledge and barely survives the massacre. Later he finds three photos one of himself, another of a friend, and the third of a woman he's never seen in the pocket of one of the terrorists. Realizing they must be targets, he notifies his friend and goes on a quest to rescue the mysterious woman. Is there a connection to a madman with access to a virulent strain of bird flu who boldly plans to infect New York City? Freveletti, who has an amazing talent for action scenes, has written one of the top entries in the Covert One series, which has established itself as the best of the numerous series based on Ludlum characters.--Ayers, Jeff Copyright 2010 Booklist
