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Ben Kincaid #18
Capitol Betrayal
Lawyer and former senator Ben Kincaid is meeting with the president when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. A fanatical foreign dictator has hacked into the U.S. nuclear defense system and now has a finger on the trigger of America’s most dangerous weapons. Kincaid is whisked, along with the president and his advisors, to an underground bunker, but the president seems to be falling apart under the pressure—and the vice president wants to strip him of his powers. While Kincaid scrambles to defend the president, CIA agent Seamus McKay races through Washington, searching for a hidden command center that now controls U.S. ballistic missiles. As McKay and Kincaid move closer to uncovering a world-shattering plot, the ultimate act of betrayal is launched from the heart of the American capitol itself.
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First published March 10, 2008
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About the author
William Bernhardt
88 books512 followersWilliam Bernhardt is the author of over sixty books, including the bestselling Daniel Pike and Ben Kincaid legal thrillers, the historical novels Challengers of the Dust and Nemesis, three books of poetry, and the ten Red Sneaker books on fiction writing.
In addition, Bernhardt founded the Red Sneaker Writers Center to mentor aspiring writers. The Center hosts an annual writers conference (WriterCon), small-group seminars, a monthly newsletter, and a bi-weekly podcast. More than three dozen of Bernhardt’s students have subsequently published with major houses. He is also the owner of Balkan Press, which publishes poetry and fiction as well as the literary journal Conclave.
Bernhardt has received the Southern Writers Guild’s Gold Medal Award, the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award (University of Pennsylvania) and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award (Oklahoma State), which is given "in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large." He has been nominated for the Oklahoma Book Award eighteen times in three different categories, and has won the award twice. Library Journal called him “the master of the courtroom drama.” The Vancouver Sun called him “the American equivalent of P.G. Wodehouse and John Mortimer.”
In addition to his novels and poetry, he has written plays, a musical (book and score), humor, children stories, biography, and puzzles. He has edited two anthologies (Legal Briefs and Natural Suspect) as fundraisers for The Nature Conservancy and the Children’s Legal Defense Fund. OSU named him “Oklahoma’s Renaissance Man.”
In his spare time, he has enjoyed surfing, digging for dinosaurs, trekking through the Himalayas, paragliding, scuba diving, caving, zip-lining over the canopy of the Costa Rican rain forest, and jumping out of an airplane at 10,000 feet. In 2013, he became a Jeopardy! champion winning over $20,000.
When Bernhardt delivered the keynote address at the San Francisco Writers Conference, chairman Michael Larsen noted that in addition to penning novels, Bernhardt can “write a sonnet, play a sonata, plant a garden, try a lawsuit, teach a class, cook a gourmet meal, beat you at Scrabble, and work the New York Times crossword in under five minutes.”
In addition, Bernhardt founded the Red Sneaker Writers Center to mentor aspiring writers. The Center hosts an annual writers conference (WriterCon), small-group seminars, a monthly newsletter, and a bi-weekly podcast. More than three dozen of Bernhardt’s students have subsequently published with major houses. He is also the owner of Balkan Press, which publishes poetry and fiction as well as the literary journal Conclave.
Bernhardt has received the Southern Writers Guild’s Gold Medal Award, the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award (University of Pennsylvania) and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award (Oklahoma State), which is given "in recognition of an outstanding body of work that has profoundly influenced the way in which we understand ourselves and American society at large." He has been nominated for the Oklahoma Book Award eighteen times in three different categories, and has won the award twice. Library Journal called him “the master of the courtroom drama.” The Vancouver Sun called him “the American equivalent of P.G. Wodehouse and John Mortimer.”
In addition to his novels and poetry, he has written plays, a musical (book and score), humor, children stories, biography, and puzzles. He has edited two anthologies (Legal Briefs and Natural Suspect) as fundraisers for The Nature Conservancy and the Children’s Legal Defense Fund. OSU named him “Oklahoma’s Renaissance Man.”
In his spare time, he has enjoyed surfing, digging for dinosaurs, trekking through the Himalayas, paragliding, scuba diving, caving, zip-lining over the canopy of the Costa Rican rain forest, and jumping out of an airplane at 10,000 feet. In 2013, he became a Jeopardy! champion winning over $20,000.
When Bernhardt delivered the keynote address at the San Francisco Writers Conference, chairman Michael Larsen noted that in addition to penning novels, Bernhardt can “write a sonnet, play a sonata, plant a garden, try a lawsuit, teach a class, cook a gourmet meal, beat you at Scrabble, and work the New York Times crossword in under five minutes.”
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July 10, 2021
This book is better than his read counts.
Ben Kincaid is a criminal defense attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Ben Kincaid is back in Washington with a assignment. A satellite missile/nuclear bomb threat is being planned by a Middle East country (Kuraq) and/or others?
The Washington committee meets in the Oval Office’s underground defense bomb bunker, for a decision before a satellite missile threat/attack erupts in the USA.
The President’s decisions show stress, such as, his “tap dancing” under tables, is someone drugging him? Is someone else needed to make decisions? Vice President -or- Admiral William Cartwright (White House Military head)?
They “attack” his behavior & attitudes - for a impeachment decision & new lead in this Kuraq crisis.
The book references using the “US 25th amendment” to replace the President proving he is incapable to make decisions in this Kuraq decision...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitut... (difficult explanation)
Ben’s Community Courts Bureau, chief lawyer, to defend the President's sanity in this US Capital terrorist threat. Is there an informant among them on the attack threats?
William Bernhardt interview on the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaSEy...
The flow is good. The book is not complex.
Ben Kincaid is a criminal defense attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Ben Kincaid is back in Washington with a assignment. A satellite missile/nuclear bomb threat is being planned by a Middle East country (Kuraq) and/or others?
The Washington committee meets in the Oval Office’s underground defense bomb bunker, for a decision before a satellite missile threat/attack erupts in the USA.
The President’s decisions show stress, such as, his “tap dancing” under tables, is someone drugging him? Is someone else needed to make decisions? Vice President -or- Admiral William Cartwright (White House Military head)?
They “attack” his behavior & attitudes - for a impeachment decision & new lead in this Kuraq crisis.
The book references using the “US 25th amendment” to replace the President proving he is incapable to make decisions in this Kuraq decision...
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitut... (difficult explanation)
Ben’s Community Courts Bureau, chief lawyer, to defend the President's sanity in this US Capital terrorist threat. Is there an informant among them on the attack threats?
William Bernhardt interview on the book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaSEy...
The flow is good. The book is not complex.
May 3, 2012
This is the first book by William Bernhardt that I've ever read. To tell you the truth, I hadn't even heard of him until I signed up for a couple of continuing education courses in legal writing and guess who was the instructor ...
The classes were very good but, ever the cynic, I probably still would not have run out to buy this book. After all, I've still got a stack of unread books at home from Borders' going-out-of-business sales. But, luckily for me, I scored highest on Bernhardt's grammar quiz and received this book as a prize.
I really was lucky to have won the quiz because I enjoyed the book. It is definitely a fun ride. And it seems that that is what it is intended to be.
Capitol Betrayal is the latest in a series of books featuring superlawyer hero Ben Kincaid. Kincaid, presumably, begins the series as more typical Oklahoma lawyer, not unlike Bernhardt himself and likely his alter ego. By this point in the series, however, Kincaid's career trajectory has followed career path surpassed by only Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, and Kincaid is a former U.S. Senator serving on the White House staff. But I can forgive Bernhardt for this because, after all, if fictional heroes did in real life what they tend to do in book after book, their careers would take off too.
By a quirk of fate and timing, of course, Kincaid happens to be at the White House when a crisis begins. That external crisis quickly splits with a connected crisis in the White House itself and both proceed, rapidly and enjoyably, to an ultimate, virtually simultaneous conclusion, or so the reader is led to believe.
I do have one criticism but it isn't with the writing or the story, it is with the politics included. Kincaid, and presumably Bernhardt, are liberal Democrats, and their views are oversimplified and, as you would expect, presented with unopposed glee. And for many, opposition is necessary. Even as a conservative Republican, I didn't let Kincaid's viewpoints didn't bother me too much. After all, though frustrating, Bernhardt's spin is no worse than that of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, or Hollywood.
Again, my take on this one is that it is intended to be fun. It succeeds. You'll need to suspend your disbelief a little to enjoy the tale, but when you do, you may not be able to put the book down until you find out how it ends. It is hard to ask for much more than that.
The classes were very good but, ever the cynic, I probably still would not have run out to buy this book. After all, I've still got a stack of unread books at home from Borders' going-out-of-business sales. But, luckily for me, I scored highest on Bernhardt's grammar quiz and received this book as a prize.
I really was lucky to have won the quiz because I enjoyed the book. It is definitely a fun ride. And it seems that that is what it is intended to be.
Capitol Betrayal is the latest in a series of books featuring superlawyer hero Ben Kincaid. Kincaid, presumably, begins the series as more typical Oklahoma lawyer, not unlike Bernhardt himself and likely his alter ego. By this point in the series, however, Kincaid's career trajectory has followed career path surpassed by only Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, and Kincaid is a former U.S. Senator serving on the White House staff. But I can forgive Bernhardt for this because, after all, if fictional heroes did in real life what they tend to do in book after book, their careers would take off too.
By a quirk of fate and timing, of course, Kincaid happens to be at the White House when a crisis begins. That external crisis quickly splits with a connected crisis in the White House itself and both proceed, rapidly and enjoyably, to an ultimate, virtually simultaneous conclusion, or so the reader is led to believe.
I do have one criticism but it isn't with the writing or the story, it is with the politics included. Kincaid, and presumably Bernhardt, are liberal Democrats, and their views are oversimplified and, as you would expect, presented with unopposed glee. And for many, opposition is necessary. Even as a conservative Republican, I didn't let Kincaid's viewpoints didn't bother me too much. After all, though frustrating, Bernhardt's spin is no worse than that of ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, or Hollywood.
Again, my take on this one is that it is intended to be fun. It succeeds. You'll need to suspend your disbelief a little to enjoy the tale, but when you do, you may not be able to put the book down until you find out how it ends. It is hard to ask for much more than that.
November 18, 2013
Why did the author think he had to invent an evil dictatorship in a fictional country that lies near and sounds like, but is not, Iraq? The protagonist gets computer help from a computer science grad student. This is melodramatic pulp with weak characters and a weak plot.
June 5, 2010
DNF. Can't get into a book that starts with a thrilling CIA op vs terrorists chase then pauses a handful of paragraphs later to wax lyrical over touristy scenery.
January 24, 2019
I don't know if Bernhardt is finished with the Ben Kincaid series, but I think I am.
With this one, it's as if he decided to write a James Patterson type of action thriller, but it comes across as more of a parody of Patterson than an homage. Ben shares time with Seamus McKay, an aging, takes-a-licking-and-keeps-on-ticking CIA agent in pursuit of terrorists on American soil (DC area, of course). Ben's plotline involves the issue of the mental capacity of the POTUS and the push by the VP to step in and replace him.
Christina has a minor role, while the existence of Jones and Loving is barely acknowledged.
Bernhardt may have been using this book to set the stage for further adventures of Seamus McKay. Thoughts of how Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford, and others have continued to make action hero movies long after their age would strongly suggest retirement from that genre come to mind. I don't think I'm likely to follow Bernhardt down that path.
As for Ben, maybe he's going to continue his inexplicable rise from Tulsa to DC to the World Court.
Actually, when the mood strikes me to put my mind in neutral and go along for the ride, I might once again pick up a future Kincaid novel. It's decent light entertainment, of the type just described.
With this one, it's as if he decided to write a James Patterson type of action thriller, but it comes across as more of a parody of Patterson than an homage. Ben shares time with Seamus McKay, an aging, takes-a-licking-and-keeps-on-ticking CIA agent in pursuit of terrorists on American soil (DC area, of course). Ben's plotline involves the issue of the mental capacity of the POTUS and the push by the VP to step in and replace him.
Christina has a minor role, while the existence of Jones and Loving is barely acknowledged.
Bernhardt may have been using this book to set the stage for further adventures of Seamus McKay. Thoughts of how Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford, and others have continued to make action hero movies long after their age would strongly suggest retirement from that genre come to mind. I don't think I'm likely to follow Bernhardt down that path.
As for Ben, maybe he's going to continue his inexplicable rise from Tulsa to DC to the World Court.
Actually, when the mood strikes me to put my mind in neutral and go along for the ride, I might once again pick up a future Kincaid novel. It's decent light entertainment, of the type just described.
January 31, 2018
I thought the pace of action in Dan Brown books was unbelievable, but this one goes to a new level. Especially true with the pushing 50 CIA (?) agent who jumps from elevator car roof to another to slide down the cables and attack multiple bad guys - who wail on him as well; jumps from a moving escalator as he fights to get the target - who fights back; then there are more beatings, etc. etc. all within a matter of a couple of hours.
The part of the story dealing w/ an attempted coup d'état using the 25th Amendment was interesting given the current climate in D.C., but.....
Undecided if I'll give this author another try or not. Definitely not up to the level of Balducci or Connelly.
The part of the story dealing w/ an attempted coup d'état using the 25th Amendment was interesting given the current climate in D.C., but.....
Undecided if I'll give this author another try or not. Definitely not up to the level of Balducci or Connelly.
July 21, 2025
Unbelievable storyline but interesting enough for me to keep reading. A middle eastern dictator, Gen Zoko, has hacked into the US nuclear missile database and is threatening to fire the US arsenal at itself. The president and cabinet are ushered to the underground bunker. The VP wants the President removed do to insanity. A trial ensues in the bunker. Meanwhile a CIA operative Sheamus McKay tracks down the location of the missile hackers all by himself and defeats them all- no way he could really do that
February 21, 2019
Still really enjoying this series. It’s hard to describe this book without giving away spoilers so I won’t try.
This series started out as courtroom dramas/detective stories. They have changed to become more political intrigue with a bit of courtroom drama thrown in.
Since I like both of those genres this series is great for me. They are are full of excellent characters and are quite simply good stories well told.
This series started out as courtroom dramas/detective stories. They have changed to become more political intrigue with a bit of courtroom drama thrown in.
Since I like both of those genres this series is great for me. They are are full of excellent characters and are quite simply good stories well told.
February 24, 2022
Reading the first few pages of this alleged thriller is all it took for me to see that this author has put together a poorly written, disorganized bunch of words that make no logical sense.
I skimmed the rest of the book and it got worse. The ending was totally ridiculous.
This book was a waste of good paper.
I skimmed the rest of the book and it got worse. The ending was totally ridiculous.
This book was a waste of good paper.
July 26, 2019
I always wish there was a 3.5 on these books. This one was as good as the other Ben Kincaid ones, so if you like the others, you will like this one! New stuff personally and professionally for Ben and his wife, Christine!
December 20, 2025
Not a second to spare . . . til all is right with the world.
Ben Kincaid is an awesome litigator! William Bernhardt is an exquisite writer! I’ve got to get to the listing of the ones I have yet to read.
Ben Kincaid is an awesome litigator! William Bernhardt is an exquisite writer! I’ve got to get to the listing of the ones I have yet to read.
June 14, 2017
Like series and premise of this episode. Well narrated and recommended.
September 9, 2017
Another Bernhardt quick read. Kincaid saves the presidency!
February 24, 2019
This was a good political thriller. Fast moving, easy read. The characters were likable and the storyline never lagged. Keeps you interested from beginning to end.
April 5, 2023
Great. Writing by Bernhardt
Another amazing story by author. Full of twists and turns when you least expect them!
The entire series keeps the reader on the edge of their seat
Another amazing story by author. Full of twists and turns when you least expect them!
The entire series keeps the reader on the edge of their seat
July 6, 2023
Cannot put it down!!!
August 24, 2012
Not my cup of tea, but a fine representation of formula mystery/thriller fiction by a very successful writer. William Bernhardt mixes light (very light) progressive politics with what seems to be admiring regard for some of the worst abuses of the Bush era, making for a somewhat confusing narrative tone.
But Capitol Betrayal is a political thriller and an action-adventure tale with lots of explosions, broken bones, and square-jawed and manly torture. It's chock full of what's expected in that genre.
We bid adieu to one heroic protagonist (this is the last of the Ben Kinkaid series) and say hello to another, as CIA tough guy Seamus McKay enters center stage to crack heads and spit out catchphrases.
Women don't come off very well. One betrays her heroic boss, and another is imperiled and then rescued, just in time to reveal her fulfillment in a role that would make June Cleaver proud.
But Capitol Betrayal is a political thriller and an action-adventure tale with lots of explosions, broken bones, and square-jawed and manly torture. It's chock full of what's expected in that genre.
We bid adieu to one heroic protagonist (this is the last of the Ben Kinkaid series) and say hello to another, as CIA tough guy Seamus McKay enters center stage to crack heads and spit out catchphrases.
Women don't come off very well. One betrays her heroic boss, and another is imperiled and then rescued, just in time to reveal her fulfillment in a role that would make June Cleaver proud.
August 15, 2014
With his final Ben Kincaid novel, William Bernhardt does a fantastic job of weaving an intricate and well told tale while still maintaining the wonderful personalities of his continuing characters. This was not just icing on a wonderful cake it was a full and robust final course in a fabulous banquet of relevant and exciting individual courses, eighteen in all. I will miss Ben and his colleagues, but I look forward for a new banquet to come as well as those individual feasts that Bernhardt has served up before in his none-Kincaid works. I had the pleasure of attending Mr. Bernhardt's Level Two workshop in Honolulu this year and can attest to his ability to effectively share the skills that are so evident in his work to those of us who are striving to share our own visions in print. He puts an enormous amount of effort into his work to make it look effortless and succeeds admirably.
August 16, 2014
Lawyer and former senator Ben Kincaid is meeting with the president when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. A fanatical foreign dictator has hacked into the U.S. nuclear defense system and now has a finger on the trigger of America’s most dangerous weapons. Kincaid is whisked, along with the president and his advisors, to an underground bunker, but the president seems to be falling apart under the pressure—and the vice president wants to strip him of his powers. While Kincaid scrambles to defend the president, CIA agent Seamus McKay races through Washington, searching for a hidden command center that now controls U.S. ballistic missiles. As McKay and Kincaid move closer to uncovering a world-shattering plot, the ultimate act of betrayal is launched from the heart of the American capitol itself.
January 21, 2015
1-20-2015 actually re-read it 6 months ago.
re read 5-2014 still 5 stars
This is a 2010 Ben K Washington DC story that I hadn't read.
I liked the two separate but concurrent stories being interwoven throughout the book.
Of course, the Ben K portion was the primary story and what a story!?!?!!
I tip my hat to Bernhardt - that white House scenario had never entered my head - holy cow!!!!!
I rarely give 5 stars and rarely give one or two stars. Probably as a result of my
training as an elementary school teacher with the 4 3 2 1 system. You have to be either defiant or non-participatory to get a "1" and you have to be at the nedxdt grade level to get a "4". That leaves you with a "2: for partially proficient and a "3" for proficient". (Can you guess I just finished grades for this year?)
But I digress....great read!
re read 5-2014 still 5 stars
This is a 2010 Ben K Washington DC story that I hadn't read.
I liked the two separate but concurrent stories being interwoven throughout the book.
Of course, the Ben K portion was the primary story and what a story!?!?!!
I tip my hat to Bernhardt - that white House scenario had never entered my head - holy cow!!!!!
I rarely give 5 stars and rarely give one or two stars. Probably as a result of my
training as an elementary school teacher with the 4 3 2 1 system. You have to be either defiant or non-participatory to get a "1" and you have to be at the nedxdt grade level to get a "4". That leaves you with a "2: for partially proficient and a "3" for proficient". (Can you guess I just finished grades for this year?)
But I digress....great read!
May 27, 2011
Tulsa lawyer and former senator Ben Kincaid is in a meeting with the president in the Oval Office when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. Facing an imminent threat to the White House, Kincaid is whisked, along with the president and his advisors, to the underground PEOC—Presidential Emergency Operations Center—built to withstand a nuclear blast, but vulnerable to another kind of attack.
Inside the bunker, defense specialists realize that a malevolent foreign dictator has hacked into the U.S. nuclear defense system and now has a finger on the trigger of America’s most dangerous weapons. The dictator’s message is clear: Heed his demands or suffer unfathomable destruction. The president seems to develop some mental problems.
Inside the bunker, defense specialists realize that a malevolent foreign dictator has hacked into the U.S. nuclear defense system and now has a finger on the trigger of America’s most dangerous weapons. The dictator’s message is clear: Heed his demands or suffer unfathomable destruction. The president seems to develop some mental problems.
March 23, 2014
The President is taken to his White House Bunker when it is learned that terrorists have gotten hold of a nuclear device. A CIA Agent is tracking that down in in his investigation learns that the terrorists have hacked into the US Military computers and now control the US Missiles.
Seamus McKay, the CIA Agent, tracks down the terrorists and works at solving the takeover and finding the bomb. Meanwhile the Veep is attempting to oust the President for incapacity while in the bunker. I will not go into details about it, but a trial takes place with Ben Kincaid as the President's defense counsel.
The book is well written and fascinating. The premise and politics gripping. Good reading.
Seamus McKay, the CIA Agent, tracks down the terrorists and works at solving the takeover and finding the bomb. Meanwhile the Veep is attempting to oust the President for incapacity while in the bunker. I will not go into details about it, but a trial takes place with Ben Kincaid as the President's defense counsel.
The book is well written and fascinating. The premise and politics gripping. Good reading.
November 16, 2010
Seems like this one was hastily put together, not not the best Kincaid novel I've read. The use of the word "man" was annoying and out of place, such as "What are you doing, man?".
Just seems like there wasn't a lot of thought put into the plot. A computer hacker that seamus worked with on another case "just happened to write the code that was used to take over the US satellite computers. Then, when Seamus asks him where other computer hackers might be that could infiltrate and take over the system might be, the villain just happens to be walking out of the place on their first drive by.
Just didn't have the makings of a great thriller.
Just seems like there wasn't a lot of thought put into the plot. A computer hacker that seamus worked with on another case "just happened to write the code that was used to take over the US satellite computers. Then, when Seamus asks him where other computer hackers might be that could infiltrate and take over the system might be, the villain just happens to be walking out of the place on their first drive by.
Just didn't have the makings of a great thriller.
May 10, 2010
I've read all the series of Ben Kincaid books by William Bernhardt. If that hadn't been the case, I would not have finished this one. Is this the last one in the series? If not, maybe it should be. The side story with the CIA agent was good, the main story with Ben Kincaid, not so much. I missed the usual cast of characters (and btw, what happened to Loving?). Ben's situation was completely unbelievable. And the ending? Please! We all know how it's going to end, did it have to drag out til the final two seconds?
December 7, 2010
First, I've noticed that some of the Goodreads reviews of this book are actually reviews of a different book. This one has Kincaid as an attorney in the White House when hackers find a way to launch our ballistic missles and use them against us. The bad guys also have stolen a nuclear suitcase.
That out of the way, I'll now say that I hate to give a bad review of a Goodreads author, but I have to do it now. This is the first Bernhardt book I've read and I wasn't impressed. I'd call it unrealistic and cartoonish.
That out of the way, I'll now say that I hate to give a bad review of a Goodreads author, but I have to do it now. This is the first Bernhardt book I've read and I wasn't impressed. I'd call it unrealistic and cartoonish.
November 29, 2010
This was a quick and relatively entertaining read, but there was something of a simplistic feel to it. I felt like it needed more depth.
Not that this has to do with the story itself, but it doesn't help that this book was in need of a good editor. Perhaps spelling and grammar are losing their relevance in today's society, but one would think they should remain priorities in the publishing industry.
Not that this has to do with the story itself, but it doesn't help that this book was in need of a good editor. Perhaps spelling and grammar are losing their relevance in today's society, but one would think they should remain priorities in the publishing industry.
November 1, 2013
I have read all the Ben Kincaid books and liked this one the least. The spontaneous trial was a great idea but it dragged on forever. I was glad when the action switched to Shamus. The book could have been very exciting if the trial was more succinct and moved along. For example, after the blackout I thought Ben was going to just drone on forever and never reveal what he figured out.
I would not have finished the book if I had not read all of the Kincaid series.
I would not have finished the book if I had not read all of the Kincaid series.
June 22, 2010
Mostly predictable. The author does a lot to ruin his own a-ha moments.
I didn't like thrillers when I picked this up. I still don't. The only thing that kept me reading was wondering if the president's medical history qualified to make him incapable of holding office, and that interest is primarily personal, not a credit to the writing.
TV movie material? Maybe. -_-
I didn't like thrillers when I picked this up. I still don't. The only thing that kept me reading was wondering if the president's medical history qualified to make him incapable of holding office, and that interest is primarily personal, not a credit to the writing.
TV movie material? Maybe. -_-
November 10, 2010
Although I skipped a book or two, I was able to pick up the backstory quickly. I was so interested after Ben Kincaid was whisked away with the Presidnet in a Bunker, that it only took me 2 days to read the book. The introduction of a new character, Seamus McKay was also very refreshing.
I can't wait for the next book.
I can't wait for the next book.
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