A Firing Offense

Rating:
Summary: It was great
Review: This is a well-written page-turner centering on the adventures of a foreign correspondent caught up in French foreign intrigues.
The book has a few faults. Among the faults are announcing the death of Arthur Bowman on page 3 and then "flashing back" for the next 250 pages until Arthur Bowman finally dies on page 254. Too much of the book is spent with the reader KNOWING that Arthur Bowman dies, and even WHERE he dies, and just waiting for it to happen.
The female characters in the book are superfluous -- they're either in the book as decorations or a cheering section.
Lastly, for all the research has done, and real-life experience the author obviously has on the subject, it's jarring to see the author describe a CIA bulletin board reminding agents to "get their malaria shots." There's no such thing as a "malaria shot."