Can Gideon find the object and what is behind it or will he be set up like his father was when Gideon was 12 years old. Great book, suspense as well as surprise. They are up to their high standard again. Someone who has need for just such a renegade.įor Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning.
A very powerful someone, who is impressed by Gideon’s special skills. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, and successful, but from the shadows someone is watching. With a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-time mission of vengeance aimed at the perpetrator of his father’s destruction. With her last breath, Gideon’s mother begged him to avenge that death. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother’s bedside, Gideon learned the truth: his father was framed and deliberately slaughtered. (Feb.Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief.Īt twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. That tired and predictable story line isn't helped by a protagonist lacking the quirks of the authors' popular series hero, FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. In the present, Gideon's quest for revenge takes a backseat to an assignment from shadowy Effective Engineering Solutions (introduced in 2001's The Ice Limit), whose people succeed in recruiting Gideon to steal plans for what might be a new Chinese megaweapon from a defecting scientist. the Russians caught as a result of a flaw in a new intelligence encryption standard he discovered but higher authority ignored.
The older Crew was made the scapegoat for the deaths of 26 spies for the U.S. In 1996, eight years after 12-year-old Gideon Crew saw his father, an employee of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command, fatally shot outside his father's Arlington, Va., office, his mother tells him the truth about the killing on her death bed. Preston and Child's first in a new thriller series falls short of their usual high standard.
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