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In THE MESA CONSPIRACY, readers were introduced to Faith Kelly, a former US Marshall working for a top-secret government organization known only as Department Thirty. Most law enforcement officials are familiar with this organization but unaware of what they actually do. Whenever an official from Department Thirty requests custody of a prisoner, law enforcement is supposed to co-operate without question. For the police, it is not a big deal. It is just another prisoner disappearing into the system. If they really had any idea with what goes on inside the organization, they might just reconsider. Department Thirty works as a witness protection program for criminals, except for one small detail. They are given new lives in exchange for information that might benefit the US government. As a former US Marshall, Faith Kelly hates what the organization stands for, but she does her job well whether she likes it or not. In this novel her bosses have put her in charge of recruiting her first Department Thirty case, an accused embezzler by the name of Alex Bridge. Alex claims that she is innocent and that she has no idea how she became a suspect in the first place. All she is interested is in making a living as she works on her music career and to provide a good life for her unborn child. Officer Kelly feels that something is not quite right in the case and she is wonders if she is being set up by her superiors who know of Kelly's discontent. In reality, Alex is being used as a pawn by a clever puppet master who wants to right a 200-year-old wrong with another sinister agenda he has in mind. Alex is the only one who can pull it off and he will do whatever it takes to have her fulfil her destiny. It will be up to Officer Kelly to get to the bottom of it if she wants to save an innocent woman as well as herself. This guy is playing for keeps and no one will stand on his way. As much as I would like to endorse this book, I will have to take a pass. The author takes too many liberties with Native American history that it is more of a disservice to the real atrocities committed against Native Americans. Kent is also sabotaging his own future as a writer by giving away too much information about his previous novel when it was unnecessary. Names could have been avoided as well as some of the key plot points from his past book. At this rate, I don't see the Department Thirty series lasting too long, and that is a shame. The book has a great concept, but its execution is just too weak.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, December 2005
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