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DEAVER. DANGEROUSLY GOOD.
9am, 31st December. A man gets onto the packed escalator of a metro station and fires a silenced machine gun through a paper bag. He escapes without being spotted in the chaos that follows.
A note is delivered to the mayor of Washington, D.C., demanding $20 million,…
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1 author picked The Devil's Teardrop as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This plot slayed me. One aspect of the plot, its lynchpin, was pure genius: What happens if a brain-damaged killer who’s been programmed to follow orders loses his handler/programmer to a freak accident in the middle of a terrorist plot in DC before a ransom can be delivered?
This thriller is what happens. Great use of a ticking clock and a machine-like, unstoppable antagonist. The protagonist is an everyman type but with a way-cool, oddball handwriting/document analysis background. Shades of Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon (on one of his better days) and Nicolas Cage’s character Benjamin Franklin Gates from National Treasure,…
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