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The Strongbox Chronicles #2
The Firebird Deception
It should have been simple. Get in, get the goods, get out. Yet what should be simple almost never was…
Once more Alisha MacAleer was racing around Europe, this time searching for the black box from a downed aircraft. Yet for the first time as a CIA agent, she doubted her work — and her superiors. Too many people were able to trace her movements. Was there a double — or triple? — agent in the CIA? How else could the dangerous, almost mythical group known as the Sicarii have targeted her?
The worst problem? She'd discovered the only person she could rely on was the man who'd once broken her heart — by shooting her in the back....
Once more Alisha MacAleer was racing around Europe, this time searching for the black box from a downed aircraft. Yet for the first time as a CIA agent, she doubted her work — and her superiors. Too many people were able to trace her movements. Was there a double — or triple? — agent in the CIA? How else could the dangerous, almost mythical group known as the Sicarii have targeted her?
The worst problem? She'd discovered the only person she could rely on was the man who'd once broken her heart — by shooting her in the back....
304 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 1, 2006
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August 27, 2023
This is a fast-moving storyline with many twists and turns. Well written.
April 7, 2010
The second book in the Alisha McDermott series is as action packed as the first and filled with many of the same characters, some new ones and all of the mind bending questions of who is "good" and who is "bad" that made the first book such a page turner. Brandon Parker seems to be on the side of the CIA and US, but is he, and is his Dad, Leesh's handler Greg? Who knows where she is and is that why they are finding her so easily? Who is Phoenix? And of course what does Frank Reinhert really stand for. There are even more layers of intrigue in this book than were in the Cardinal Rule and while it sometimes gets distracting to try and figure it all out the book rocks along at such a rocket pace that I just kept at it until the final exciting confrontation.
February 13, 2011
Does anyone not doubt the directives from their superiors? I do frequently. It's as if the blindfold of trust is ripped away and everything becomes jarring and clear. It's rather depressing at times. Watching Alisha loose confidence in people she trusted was a bit sad and hit a bit too close to home.
July 28, 2008
Surprisingly good book! Wish I had read the first one, but somehow I only bought this, the second. Oh well, it was still easy to follow. Love the spy stuff, of course - as though who know me, know I love ALIAS. Will have to try and get the first and the last in the series now.
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