Spies in Plain Sight
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Welcome to VIE. A spy organization of the people, by the people, and for the people. We are spies in plain sight. We make billionaires afraid.
A gripping, tense thriller with a hearing impaired main character from bestselling author Lynn Hightower.
Junie Lagard is a woman on a mission. With the help of her young team of citizen journalists, she’s determined to hold billionaires accountable for the environmental atrocities they commit. Their current target: Kentuckian billionaire “Daddy” Sullivan Carr, whose plans to open a bitcoin mine in Annecy, France, threaten to destroy the place Junie and her beloved hearing dog Leo now call home.
But locking horns with Daddy Carr plunges Junie into a waking nightmare. For the twisted billionaire has drawn the attention of a dark and lethal French secret society known as the Emerald Vipers – and for this he blames her.
Escaping only narrowly with her life from an assassination attempt, Junie’s determination to unmask Daddy Carr as a villain only grows stronger. But as her quest for justice leads her from the masked revels of Annecy’s Venetian carnival to the glittering excesses of Kentucky’s Derby, it will take all her strength to find not just the justice she burns for – but to face the shocking truth. That’s if she manages to stay alive . . .
Fans of fast-paced mysteries and thrillers with international settings, like those by David Hewson, Jeffrey Siger, Donna Leon and Louise Penny will love this series from award-winning author Lynn Hightower, who Lee Child praised as a "brave, bold writer".
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hightower's dynamic second novel featuring French journalist Junie Lagarde (after The Beautiful Risk) excites from the opening pages. Lagarde runs the investigative journalism website VIE, whose staff has been probing billionaire Sullivan Carr's plan to open a bitcoin mine in the Alps, a venture that "had all the environmental impact of a coal-burning plant with none of the charm." After VIE begins its investigation, Stéphane Morel—whose pregnant wife, Analise, is VIE's top reporter—is handed an envelope addressed to Lagarde. It contains a poster for the movie Three Days of the Condor, which features a massacre at a research office, and contains the message "Condolences from Sullivan Carr." When Stéphane and Lagarde rush back to VIE's offices, they find much of the staff dead, and Analise held hostage. Lagarde vows to bring Carr to justice for the slaughter, a mission complicated by the involvements of both a shadowy secret society called the Emerald Vipers and of Lagarde's nemesis, Madame Reynard, the head of a covert spy organization. Hightower keeps tensions high all the way to a denouement that involves a murder method so far-fetched it threatens to break the novel's spell. Readers with a taste for high-octane action, however, are unlikely to mind.
