Cheater
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- $6.99
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A powerful man in the CIA hires a psychopath to assassinate a foreign diplomat who plans to testify against him. But the psychopath, who calls himself “Digger”, has his own agenda and list of victims, including a cop named Henry Culver whom Digger thinks “cheated” by presenting false evidence against him in court. When murders start mounting in a quiet Virginia town, it is up to Culver to find out who is behind an explosive and baffling trail of violence.
By the author of the New York Times bestseller BALEFIRE.
"The most gripping, suspenseful, ingenious thriller published in recent years . . . First-class thriller fiction, a fine example of just how this sort of thing should be done."
- Pinella News
"There's merry hell to pay when a high-level CIA plot to gather intelligence at a conference on the global trade in endangered species comes undone . . . A wealth of violent action, outer-edge plotting, and authentic detail on what lab guys really look for at a crime scene."
- Kirkus Reviews
“His prose is sheer explosive energy.”
- Eric Lustbader
"Goddard writes circles around many others in his field."
- Dorothy Uhnak
"Ken Goddard is a 'Field and Stream' Tom Clancy."
- Kirkus reviews
"Goddard has a keen sense of how to hold the reader."
- Clive Cussler
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A new Goddard hero--Virginia cop Henry Culver, late of the CIA--makes his debut here, but the story that brings him to muscular life is every bit as hectically violent as those that entrapped the author's previous men of action (Wildfire, Prey, etc.). Pitted against Culver in this unflagging thriller are some of his former colleagues, a few new ones and, most lethally, the madman and computer expert known as Digger, who is shown in the novel's opening pages employing a particularly frightening means of breaking into a private home in order to murder the residents. The kicker is that Digger is an "asset" of a CIA faction that plans "a grasp of international power on a scale that has the potential to dwarf every industrial and social revolution in recorded history." The power grab revolves around an upcoming international gathering on the environment in Washington, but this premise serves only as the narrative's sparkplug--the turbine is composed of the action itself, which spins ever faster as Culver, soon joined in his quest by a vengeful French military man, dodges death and kills in turn as he seeks to take Digger down. Goddard has a habit of ending chapters on cliffhangers and later revealing what happened almost as a passing aside, but most readers, flipping the pages to enjoy the next tense thrill, are not likely to care.
