Countdown America
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
After the loss of her husband, CIA agent Isabella Bendel accepts a promotion to Chief Supervisor—a much less dangerous position than what she's accustomed to—so she can raise her two children without fear of leaving her children without any parents. But any illusions of safety are shattered when, while on her Sunday morning jog in a Washington, DC park, Isabella survives a brutal assassination attempt. She hauls her assailant into CIA headquarters, confident she can get to the bottom of why he was after her. Her blood runs cold when she learns the truth... as he was trying to take her out, armed terrorists abducted her children and mother right out of her home. Pushed to the brink of what any mother can endure, Isabella calls on all of her training and deadly skills to get her family back. During this mission, she fights her way through assassins, cyber-terrorists, and duplicitous fellow agents, leading her to uncover a Russian threat that is hell-bent on destroying the United States.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Devotees of Valerie Plame's Vanessa Pierson books will welcome Fox's gripping thriller featuring a strong female lead. In the prologue, CIA operative Isabella Bendel's maverick approach to a hostage situation results in the successful rescue of Sen. Robert Matthews. A decade later, Matthews is in the White House, and Bendel is the chief supervisor of the CIA's Cyberterrorism Unit, though she's now a widow after her husband's death from cancer. When she's attacked during her morning jog near her Washington, D.C., house, Bendel is able to overpower and capture her Russian assailant, Viktor Gachev, who reveals during his interrogation that her six-year-old twins are at risk. When Bendel reaches home, she finds the twins and her mother, who's a retired CIA agent, missing amid signs of a struggle. The abduction coincides with credible intel about an impending cyberattack that could cripple the U.S. A mole within Bendel's own unit imperils her desperate efforts to save her family and country. Unspectacular but solid prose enhances the familiar story framework. Fox provides the surprising twists and fast-paced action that genre fans expect. (BookLife)
