Acrobat
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
They are young, tough and resourceful, and they have been targeted for assassination by the very agency that made them. They are the CIA work-group known as Acrobat, and they are on the run.
- Duncan Idaho, the Langley roadrunner who skirts the line between brilliantly daring and foolishly reckless.
- Monika Summers, a ray of all-American sunshine, the utility player who can do it all, and does it exceptionally well.
- Tobey Jansen, the nerdy financial genius trapped in the body of a punk-rocking anarchist.
- Ljubica Greene, elegant and beautiful, the shopper who can score high caliber firearms or bogus walking papers as easily as shopping at Neiman Marcus.
- Russell Orr, the six-foot-four strategic planner who knows how to keep his options open.
What did Acrobat see in their time at Langley? What secrets did they uncover? How long will they last on the run? And most important of all, when will they realize that one of their own has betrayed them?
From a blazing firefight in the bowels of Times Square, to a whisper campaign in the quiet hallways of Langley; from the political minefield of a White House briefing room, to a nightmarish chase down a lonely country road--Acrobat redefines the espionage thriller.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The conventional CIA thriller is given a hip-hop twist in this high-tech tale about a young CIA "secret work-group" at deadly odds with Agency brass. Agency veteran Tom Carr has jousted to win control of his own division and provoked the wrath of his erstwhile boss Nicholas Denton. Carr's young team, dubbed Acrobat, has just pulled a major coup retrieving military secrets from a Chinese agent's safety deposit box in a faked Wall Street bank robbery. Carr finds evidence implicating Denton in a rash of stolen military secrets, so Denton blacklists Acrobat as rogue agents, labels them bank robbers in a nationwide alert and orders their arrest. Tipped off, they run to New York, where they are ambushed and Carr is killed. The group members escape with one walking wounded and head to D.C. to get the emergency IDs and cash that Carr had set up for them, but they seem to be tracked at every turn. Deciding one of their number is a mole for Denton, the remaining members focus on taking out Denton on their own. Lira (Counterparts) creates a trigger-happy young crew running the gamut from idealistic computer geek to detached professional. Unfortunately, the flabby, juvenile prose leaves much to be desired ("But, she wasn't fragile she was a woman: She only seemed so"), and the self-consciously "hip" tone usually falls flat and will probably alienate audiences on either side of the age divide. But those who stick around will be led down a bloody garden path to a perfectly twisted ending the most jaded reader won't see coming.
