The Cassandra Compact: A Covert-One Novel

Rating:
Summary: A quick, cool novel...
Review: This excellent novel is fast-paced and interesting until the very end. With unrelenting action that keeps you wanting to turn to the next page, or read the next chapter.
I believe that this is the best Covert-one novel (although I haven't read the Altman Code just yet).
If the synopsis of the story at the back of the book makes you think this book is unoriginal, think again. I thought the same thing and in the end I loved it!

Rating:
Summary: Good book, but
Review: This was a good book, but I'm obviously not the only person who became increasingly frustrated by the close calls of the authorities trying to catch the bad guys and missing by fractions of a microsecond. These are shallow spoilers, so be warned:

1) Authorities realize that a train is set to arrive in 15 minutes. As such they're unable to have more than a half dozen agents in place. The small number of agents are overpowered. BTW, why didn't the general in charge here signal to police, in case they needed backup? The police could have stayed back out of the train station even.

2) Authorities see the key suspect with another person of interest in the airport. They figure that the KS is on one of three planes, and alert anti-terror units to intercept when the planes land. They are unable to find the KS on either filght, so they let all passengers go, _but are too freaking stupid to look for the other guy_. They didn't have a good picture of him, but since the smallpox had already been transferred once it doesn't take Newton to think that maybe this other fellow has it. How's about searching all passengers?

3) That fellow is finally identified TWO MINUTES after he goes through customs. A chase commences and he gets into a limo and speeds off, just as the person chasing him catches up to him. He was literally 10 seconds too slow.

4) A drag net is about to be put over the entire nation to intercept incoming people, but it's EIGHT MINUTES too late.

The first case here may not bother you. The second will interminably piss you off, and the third and fourth are just like WTF is going on here. CATCH THEM PLEASE.

That said, it was a good book and will tide you over on a plane ride.