Rules of Betrayal
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3.7 • 6 Ratings
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- £8.99
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- £8.99
Publisher Description
The most riveting novel yet in Christopher Reich's New York Times bestselling series-featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom and his undercover-agent wife Emma, a dangerous woman with a mysterious past who has gone rogue in the high-stakes, serpentine world of international spies.
In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Nearly thirty years later, and spanning locales from those peaks to New York City, a terrible truth will be revealed.
Jonathan Ransom returns as the resourceful doctor thrown into a shadowy world of double and triple agents where absolutely no one can be trusted. To stay alive, Ransom must unravel the mystery surrounding his wife-an enigmatic and lethal spy who plays by her own rules-and discover where her loyalties truly lie.
Rules of Betrayal is a masterfully plotted novel that cements Christopher Reich's reputation as one of the most admired espionage thriller writers today.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Reich's outstanding third thriller featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom (after Rules of Vengeance) finds the courageous surgeon, who no longer works for Doctors Without Borders, in the hinterlands of Afghanistan, where he gets caught in a Taliban raid that ends with him being choppered out of a vicious firefight. As in the two previous novels, Jonathan becomes enmeshed in a mission that's run by Division, a secret U.S. government agency. The series' ongoing and fascinating twist is that Jonathan's wife, the extremely capable and extremely deadly Emma, may or may not be a Division agent, a Russian spy, or something else entirely. Jonathan willingly enters the dark world of espionage to rescue Emma after she falls afoul of Taliban warrior Sultan Haq and an evil arms dealer known as Lord Balfour. Emma's liberation of a nuclear bomb lost by the U.S. in the mountains of Pakistan in 1980 leads to an untied thread that will have readers eagerly awaiting the next installment.
Customer Reviews
Another great plot but....
I believe this to be the final book in the Trilogy although then ending is definitely left open to a sequel. The plot is great with powerful believable Characters and in the main it is well told although not as well as the previous two books. The ending though is terrific and the last quarter of the book really pulls it all together well. However my enjoyment was again tainted during much of the book by less than perfect research into some basics. The story is full of Americanisms and where the Character is American that's fine but when dealing with European Characters they simply ruin the integrity of the Character. Also not all the worlds military are built on the American model, in fact far from it and a better understanding of that by the Author would avoid the occasional gaff.
Despite this the book was extremely enjoyable and well written building to an exiting, if predicable (how could the outcome posibly be any different?), ending.