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Grace Flint #2
Mandrake
Published in the US under the name Flint's Law.
Grace Flint: The best undercover cop in the business and - since plastic surgeons re-built her shattered face - probably the most beautiful. Now Flint has a new career running operations, and she's running headlong into trouble.
Operation Pentecost: An elaborate sting designed by Flint to trap Karl Kremer, former East German spy turned financial manipulator. But Pentecost has become a snare for Flint's undercover agents. One agent is already dead, and the evidence of treachery is mounting.
Mandrake: MI6 codename for the traitor close enough to Flint to anticipate her every move. Who is Mandrake and who in the US government is determined to protect him? In Paul Eddy's stunning second novel Grace Flint is back in the firing line, tougher, bolder (and in more trouble) than before.
Grace Flint: The best undercover cop in the business and - since plastic surgeons re-built her shattered face - probably the most beautiful. Now Flint has a new career running operations, and she's running headlong into trouble.
Operation Pentecost: An elaborate sting designed by Flint to trap Karl Kremer, former East German spy turned financial manipulator. But Pentecost has become a snare for Flint's undercover agents. One agent is already dead, and the evidence of treachery is mounting.
Mandrake: MI6 codename for the traitor close enough to Flint to anticipate her every move. Who is Mandrake and who in the US government is determined to protect him? In Paul Eddy's stunning second novel Grace Flint is back in the firing line, tougher, bolder (and in more trouble) than before.
563 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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July 19, 2013I liked this one too but not quite as much as the first. Grace is tricked unforgivably in this story and its another search for revenge. She's now working in the US - I admit I didn't get how she'd managed to wrangle that - and with the same people - but it was still exciting.
January 20, 2019
In Paul Eddy's follow-up to Flint, tenacious former London police officer Grace Flint has remarried and is now working full time for Aldus Cutter and the U.S. Financial Strike Force.
On the trail of Karl Gröber, a notorious money-launderer and former officer in the East German Stasi, Flint's world comes undone when Gröber murders the agent she has sent undercover into his organization and escapes the grasp of law enforcement. Her judgment in the operation now questioned, things get even darker for Flint when it begins to appear that her new husband, Ben, has been leaking information to Gröber. Worse still, Ben has disappeared.
But Grace Flint has never taken defeat lightly, and with fury that her entire marriage may have been a sham, she is soon on the trail of both Ben and Gröber. Working with German and British intelligence agencies to find the scent, she makes steady progress, but it becomes apparent that the Germans and the Brits may have interests of their own - interests which may be at cross-purposes with Flint's - and which may make them either valuable allies or dangerous foes.
Grace Flint remains a compelling character, and author Eddy further fleshes out the rich supporting cast in a story that moves from New York to the former East Germany to the coast of the Adriatic and on to France. More straight-ahead in its plotting and narrative mechanisms than its predecessor, Flint's Law is a bit more conventional, but every bit as well-written and propellingly readable.
On the trail of Karl Gröber, a notorious money-launderer and former officer in the East German Stasi, Flint's world comes undone when Gröber murders the agent she has sent undercover into his organization and escapes the grasp of law enforcement. Her judgment in the operation now questioned, things get even darker for Flint when it begins to appear that her new husband, Ben, has been leaking information to Gröber. Worse still, Ben has disappeared.
But Grace Flint has never taken defeat lightly, and with fury that her entire marriage may have been a sham, she is soon on the trail of both Ben and Gröber. Working with German and British intelligence agencies to find the scent, she makes steady progress, but it becomes apparent that the Germans and the Brits may have interests of their own - interests which may be at cross-purposes with Flint's - and which may make them either valuable allies or dangerous foes.
Grace Flint remains a compelling character, and author Eddy further fleshes out the rich supporting cast in a story that moves from New York to the former East Germany to the coast of the Adriatic and on to France. More straight-ahead in its plotting and narrative mechanisms than its predecessor, Flint's Law is a bit more conventional, but every bit as well-written and propellingly readable.
October 9, 2021
This was an exciting thriller, sometimes with the characters it did get a bit confusing. You really had to stay with the game. At times it did ramble a bit.
This is the second book in the series and you definitely can read & enjoy it without having read the first book. I think there is a third book which I am keen to find.
This is the second book in the series and you definitely can read & enjoy it without having read the first book. I think there is a third book which I am keen to find.
April 5, 2018
In januari 2003 werd de verkiezing gehouden voor het mooiste boekomslag van 2002 (zie de website: www.boekblad.nl). Bedrog behoorde niet tot de genomineerde boeken, en dat is mijns inziens geheel onterecht! Edd in Amsterdam (het bureau dat het ontwerp maakte) en Pieter de Swart (de fotograaf) hebben een werkelijk bijzonder fraai omslag gemaakt! Alles klopt: de kleuren, de gebruikte letters, het model (Elisabeth van moeder Anne casting). Complimenten, complimenten!
Dit omslag is de verpakking van het verhaal van Grace Flint, die in de blurb aangeprezen wordt als de opvolgster van Clarice Starling en Kay Scarpetta. Of dit juist is, moet elke lezer maar voor zichzelf oordelen. Feit is wel dat Grace Flint een nogal heftige dame is. Die heftigheid heeft haar gebracht waar ze is: onderdirecteur van een CIA-afdeling die zich bezighoudt met een grootscheeps onderzoek naar het witwassen van geld door de ex-Stasi medewerker Gröbel. Diezelfde heftigheid maakt dat ze meedogenloos op jacht gaat naar degene die de hele operatie lijkt te willen saboteren: haar eigen echtgenoot.
Het is even doorzetten voor je grip krijgt op het verhaal. Het eerste hoofdstuk is nogal verwarrend en in een bijzonder hoog tempo worden vele personen geïntroduceerd. Daarnaast is Paul Eddy nogal dol op het werken met flash backs en het verhaal wordt uit verschillende oogpunten verteld. Ook doen sommige verwikkelingen in het boek, naarmate je vordert, toch wat gekunsteld aan. En Paul Eddy is er ook eentje van de - ik zal het maar ´nieuwe school´ noemen, die steeds een bepaalde afstandelijkheid in acht neemt (zie ook mijn recensies van Eens een spion, Misdaadschool en Acrobaat). Toch heb ik het boek in de spreekwoordelijke ruk uitgelezen, want de plot is gewoon erg goed en Eddy kan zeer beslist goed schrijven.
Dit omslag is de verpakking van het verhaal van Grace Flint, die in de blurb aangeprezen wordt als de opvolgster van Clarice Starling en Kay Scarpetta. Of dit juist is, moet elke lezer maar voor zichzelf oordelen. Feit is wel dat Grace Flint een nogal heftige dame is. Die heftigheid heeft haar gebracht waar ze is: onderdirecteur van een CIA-afdeling die zich bezighoudt met een grootscheeps onderzoek naar het witwassen van geld door de ex-Stasi medewerker Gröbel. Diezelfde heftigheid maakt dat ze meedogenloos op jacht gaat naar degene die de hele operatie lijkt te willen saboteren: haar eigen echtgenoot.
Het is even doorzetten voor je grip krijgt op het verhaal. Het eerste hoofdstuk is nogal verwarrend en in een bijzonder hoog tempo worden vele personen geïntroduceerd. Daarnaast is Paul Eddy nogal dol op het werken met flash backs en het verhaal wordt uit verschillende oogpunten verteld. Ook doen sommige verwikkelingen in het boek, naarmate je vordert, toch wat gekunsteld aan. En Paul Eddy is er ook eentje van de - ik zal het maar ´nieuwe school´ noemen, die steeds een bepaalde afstandelijkheid in acht neemt (zie ook mijn recensies van Eens een spion, Misdaadschool en Acrobaat). Toch heb ik het boek in de spreekwoordelijke ruk uitgelezen, want de plot is gewoon erg goed en Eddy kan zeer beslist goed schrijven.
January 5, 2013
After finishing this book, I had the following conversation with myself:
Could one of the most elite agents in the CIA really be a British citizen? Aren't they all Americans?
What do you know about the CIA though? If they had British citizens as elite agents, you'd be the last to know.
True... but it's still a pretty thin plot
But what can I expect from a book I randomly picked from our firm's paperback library, right?
Could one of the most elite agents in the CIA really be a British citizen? Aren't they all Americans?
What do you know about the CIA though? If they had British citizens as elite agents, you'd be the last to know.
True... but it's still a pretty thin plot
But what can I expect from a book I randomly picked from our firm's paperback library, right?
September 2, 2015
The first of Eddy's series was a stay up all night page turner. In comparison, Flint's Law was pretty ho-hum. It was difficult to imagine that such an intuitive and experienced investigator could be so thoroughly hoodwinked. And within Any job such as hers, there would be an on-going background check on spouses, etc. This thriller didn't thrill me.
March 17, 2015
Maybe it's because I'm also currently watching the entire series of Alias, but I love reading about women who kick ass. Don't get me wrong, Grace Flint is definitely flawed, but her life makes for an enjoyable read.
February 4, 2016
Love this series. Lots of action and suspense with well developed characters.
January 31, 2014
Couldn't put it down!
December 30, 2016
Quite a good story, sometimes a little difficult to follow.
November 13, 2011
How could I not enjoy a book bought in Quito that includes the Audubon society in it?
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