Countdown America
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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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)
Customer Reviews
Addictive read!
This is a gripping, action-packed, mystery-filled read, laced with deceit and betrayal that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat.
I love a good suspense-read, who doesn’t? There’s a strong female lead who’s climbed her way to the near-top, and the reader is shown a little background that gets across how well she deserves to be where she is.
There are terrorists with a long-underway plan about to come to fruition and human lives plus American life as we know it all at risk…
Twists and turns are also fairly abundant and while I did predict all of them, they still were extremely fun to experience. I missed this book whenever I put it down and I still miss it, now that it’s been finished for a couple weeks.
I cannot wait to see what else is in store for Bendel, I expect things will not calm down any time soon. There were some strong secondary things as well.
It’s mostly well-edited and there were only a couple little things I’d do differently—things that didn’t distract from / or negatively impact the reading experience.
Overall:
4 stars
⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
*and I’ll be watching for / and one-clicking anything else this author puts out.
Note:
This would make a great audiobook!
M.C. Fox’s Countdown America
Powerful, supercharged realistic and
explosive thriller!!
CIA agent Isabella Bendel has just been
promoted to the Chief Supervisor. She is
a highly trained field agent who is now in
cyber intelligence. She thought this would
be a safer position for her and her family.
Since her husband, a former CIA field agent,
has died leaving Isabelle to be a single
mom raising a set of young twins with
the help of her mother who had been an
ex-codebreaker for the CIA in her
pre-retirement years.
Someone tries to kill Isabella. She captures
him then takes the man to CIA Headquarters
for questioning. Leaving the room for a short
period, what a surprise to learn the man is
dead.
Meanwhile her children and her mother are
kidnapped right from her home by armed
assailants.
When the second attempt is made on Isabella’s
life, she faces the reality that there is a mole
in her department.
But who is trying to eliminate her and why??
This is a power packed psychological thriller
with deadly intrigue, drama and suspense.
Someone is trying to destroy American but
who, why and how soon is this to happen??
The action adventure is heightened to
mountainous proportions with plenty of thrills,
chills, twists and turns.
This story with it’s well defined, colorful, realistic
and dangerous characters is so well written
you will feel as if you are right there sharing
in this fast paced, high tension adventure.
This book is so well written that it will chill
your blood. The reader will feel the terrorizing
and horrifying events along with the characters.
A Highly Recommended Read!!!
I volunteered to read Countdown America.
Thanks to the author and publisher via the Cozy
Review Crew for the opportunity. My opinion is
voluntary and my own.