This book had some problems. First off, the overuse of characters' names. Usually, this happens in conversations, but in this book, the names are just overused everywhere. There is a 4-page chapter where the name "Sam" appears FORTY-SIX times. That's more than TEN TIMES a page. You have to work really, really hard to do that. Maybe there's a literary point for it, but too me, it was annoying and I almost abandoned the book right then.
Then, there's the issue of flying all over the place. At one point, the main character, Laura, zips off to Florida on a Friday evening. From there, decides she needs to be in Texas where she gets caught up in a murder, spending hours with the cops. All this, and she still makes it back to DC in time for her 9am Monday morning meeting. Good thing that she's (a) able to afford and get last minute seats on all these planes, and (b) these planes never run late for any reason.
As for getting tangled up in the murder... Okay, we have a CIA-trained agent and an FBI-trained agent in an alley with The Bad Guy. We've got agents firing away, and NOBODY can hit the bad guy. Then, there's the issue that we're in hand-to-hand combat with this guy, and NOBODY can describe him. What kind of agents are these?? Especially when we've made the point of how rigorously she trains and how great a shot she is in the firing range.
Then we've got the issue of our witness being scared by something. We go to the club where she works, and the club is employing state-of-the art security, including grabbing DNA samples from unsuspecting patrons. At no point does Laura sit down in front of the security footage and say, "Okay, I know my witness was at the club and saw something that scared her enough to send her home to pack, so I'm going to look at this footage and put eyes on every blond guy who walked in here."
Then, we've got the issue of the super bad guy who also has supposedly worked for the secret service at some point in the past and oops, he doesn't realize cellphones can be tracked. Uh, no.
Then, we've got the issue of Laura's boss who apparently hates her. Why did they pick her for this super-sensitive mission if they have no faith in her abilities? No biggie - just a potential assassination attempt on the president. Wouldn't they put their "best of the best" on the case?
I thought this book was going to have a mystical aspect as early on, the main character sees a man who wasn't there in the back seat of her car. No, mysticism in the book and no resolution of this plot point, either. I guess this is supposed to point to her being crazy, but again, you've got a potential presidential assassination plot and you're going to pick an agent wrestling with "the black dog" of depression and anxiety and whatever else emotional issues Laura has?? Doesn't make sense, and that black dog got on my nerves. Didn't seem like the author was real familiar with depression.
All-in-all, kinda just an "eh, whatever" book.