Monsters With Human Faces

by Charles Belfoure

The world-famous architect, Jeffery Travers is especially proud of the embassies he’s designed across the world. But now, he wishes he had never designed one. Travers has been kidnapped and blackmailed by a fundamentalist ISIS terrorist cell to get them inside his U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to blow it up. His daughter will be killed if he doesn’t cooperate. He must somehow thwart the bombing and save his daughter. The CIA counterterrorism section and FBI thinks he’s a traitor and are intent on killing him. MONSTERS WITH HUMAN FACES is a fast-paced spy thriller that describes the cruel, unspeakably violent terrorist world Travers finds himself trapped in.

251 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 5, 2022

About the author

Charles Belfoure is the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect, House of Thieves and The Fallen Architect. An architect by profession, he graduated from the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and he taught at Pratt as well as Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. His area of specialty is historic preservation. In addition to his historical fiction, Belfoure is also the award-winning author of several architectural histories, and has been a freelance writer for The Baltimore Sun and The New York Times. He lives in Westminster, Maryland.

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Reviews

[S. Jeyran Main · Rating 4 out of 5]

‘MONSTERS WITH HUMAN FACES’ is a terrorism thriller story and begins with Jefferey Travers, a well-known architect, being kidnapped into helping ISIS terrorists blow up the U.S. Embassy in Uzbekistan. He is the best man for the job because he designs them, and to make him cooperate, his daughter’s life becomes his kryptonite. As you read along, you get to know Jefferey and his personality a little more. Things cannot go any harder for him as he is seriously stuck. To make things worse, the CIA and FBI aren’t even on his side. So, the conflict of his situation is intensified, and you cannot help wondering how he will ever get out of this hole.

The literature was written well. The fast pace of the story kept the thrilling side of the elements intact. The author’s approach to storytelling was unique and possessed a certain skill in having you follow each scene.

I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to thriller action-adventure fans.