By Kelly Bridgewater
The man who knows all our secrets has a
secret of his own.
When Travis Brock, a high-level Pentagon redactor with an eidetic memory, finds
a clue to solving the tragic arson that took his wife from him, he risks
everything to find the truth—and chances losing himself in the process.
With a terror attack looming on the horizon and a pair of assassins on his
tail, Brock drops off the grid and joins forces with a disavowed Homeland
Security operative. Together they race to stop the attack before Brock is
neutralized by the people he trusts the most.
From critically acclaimed, bestselling novelist Steven James comes a smart,
wire-tight, and emotionally resonant thriller that asks just how far across the
line we might go to see justice carried out.
My Thoughts:
With Broker of Lies, Steven James
creates a terrorist threat story with unique characters. One of my favorite
things of this story is that Travis Brock is not a detective or ex-military. He
is an average Joe who steps up when the time comes. Nothing really special
about him. But the skill that he does have is important to the solving of the
terrorist plot. The heroine is a woman of many disguises. She has been trained
to slip in and out of dangerous situations. She is brave and a little risky. For
the plot, the first twenty percent of the novel is laying the groundwork for
the character’s jobs and the background, so it is pretty boring. As a reader, I
don’t think we needed all of that information. But once you reached past that
part, then the action kicked into gear and the terrorist plot was woven through
the story as the heroine and the hero tried to escape the ultimate destruction.
Plot twist ends the story, so I wonder if there will be a second novel or not.
Overall, Broker of Lies by Steven James is different than his
widely-poplar Patrick Bowers series, but it does have plenty of action to keep
readers flipping through the pages late into the night. I definitely want to
see if there is a second book.
I received a complimentary copy of Broker of
Lies by Steven James from Bethany House Publishing, but the opinions stated
are all my own.
My Rating: 3.75 out of 5 stars
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