The author of The Expats returns with another mesmerizing espionage novel, this time centered on a novel written by someone styling themselves as “Anonymous.”
Isabel Reed, a top literary agent, is sent a manuscript which captures her immediately, revealing dark hidden secrets about a great man whose life and career could be destroyed if the book were ever published. At the same time, Hayden Gray, a CIA chief of station in Copenhagen, is attempting to prevent that publication from happening. The author of the manuscript is living the life of an expat in Zurich, attempting to make up for a life of lies and deceits with the publication of the book.
Pavone sets up a plot that moves quickly from danger and possibly murder for anyone that has a copy of the book, in attempts to squelch the revelations. Scenes move from New York to Europe and also to a road in upper New York State a quarter of a century earlier, when the subject of the book commits what becomes the point of the plot.
Chris Pavone is good at making his characters react and think as they would in real life and allow his readers to enjoy a fascinating internationally focused novel. An all nighter and one that will prompt interest in his next book.
3/14 Paul Lane
THE ACCIDENT by Chris Pavone. Crown (March 11, 2014). ISBN 978-0385348454. 400p.
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