Smoke Screen: A Novel

by Vincent Patrick

The author of The Pope of Greenwich Village pits a CIA agent against a renegade doctor who smuggles a deadly virus out of the Angolan jungle and threatens to unleash it on America if his demands are not satisfied.

Genres: Mystery, Book Club

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though the ending does not give closure on all the characters, I really liked the story. It begs for another book to be written after the ending of this one. Unfortunately, the author only writes about every 14 years.

[Cristy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad, enjoyed the jewelry heist portion of it and I thought there was good character development, perhaps too much? Some of the chapters could get wordy, but overall, pretty good. I could see it as a movie, maybe.

[Mark Cheathem]

Mostly a good read. Some of the plot points were left hanging, and the ending was anticlimactic, but this book was better than I expected.

[Chris Dunn · Rating 2 out of 5]

To be fair, didn't really start further than the first 5 pages, but it didn't grab me and the new Nora Roberts book came out and there you go...