Wednesday, May 30, 2007

366. Liars & Thieves (Stephen Coonts)

Synopsis from Amazon:
Unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his goals, CIA operative Tommy Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia. When he arrives, he finds the guards shot dead and a ruthless team of American commandos killing everyone in sight. Carmellini escapes in a hail of bullets with what seems to be the sole survivor -- a stunningly attractive translator, who then steals his car and abandons him after a deadly mountain car chase. But someone else survived the massacre -- someone who holds the answers to a deadly conspiracy. Catapulted into a life and death struggle, Tommy must employ all his savvy and skill just to stay alive. But to find out who is hunting him and why, he'll need the help of retired Admiral Jake Grafton. Now they must learn to tell friend from foe as they fight their way through a poisonous wilderness of intrigue, all the way to a presidential convention in New York City -- and to the surprising identity of someone standing on the verge of absolute power who has jeopardized the safety of the entire nation to prevent a dark secret from ever seeing the light of day ....

My rating: 1 star

My review: At some point, an editor needs to tell writers that movie action sequences do not translate automatically into writing; in fact, they rarely do. I got so bored reading the action sequence in the beginning that I stopped reading the book. Another book never finished.

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