![]() ![]() She does not really want help in her hiding from the vengeful Jerry Bagger, but the Camel Club gives her it - a select few people with deathly secretive pasts, led by - well, he at first appears to be an old bum working and living in a cemetery, on closer look is a tax-dodging, bureaucracy-hating loner calling himself after Oliver Stone, but secretly is an expert assassin of old, with a connection to everyone else in this world. You can add to Finn Annabelle Conroy, an expert con-artist, and the beef she has with a vicious, dodgy casino owner she has just swindled out of forty million dollars. The book does not quite manage to scale that up a hundredfold for the rest, but it goes some way to give us a convoluted, dramatic thriller of a distinct style. ![]() That's the first four pages or so wrapped up. So what's he doing killing someone whose name is on a mental list of a few others with secret agent skill? He's really the loving family man he at first appears. No need to worry, though - he is a "de-bugger" of security problems, sent in by those very high up in such matters to detect flaws that terrorists could breach and take advantage of. So what's he doing smuggling himself onto a commercial jet, having loaded another with a suspicious package? ![]() Harry Finn is a liver of a cloyingly pleasant American Dream of a life - lovely wife, lovely kids, everything just very nice. Summary: A fixer of security problems is more than he seems, as is the past of many characters, in this very well structured thriller. ![]()
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