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Nicholas Marten is a former LAPD detective. Because of his past and the fact that members of the force are still looking for him, he moved to England, changed his name and completely reinvented himself. It is extremely dangerous for him to ever return to the United States. Yet, when he receives a call from his childhood sweetheart, who married his best friend, he is on the next plane. Caroline’s husband, Mike Parsons, is a member of Congress. He and their young son had been killed in a plane crash. When Caroline collapsed after the funeral she was taken to a private nursing home. Now she is dying and she calls Nicholas and tells him that someone is killing her. When he tries to locate Caroline’s doctor to ask some questions, Nicholas is swept up in a bizarre and complex plot, the outcome of which will have grave consequences. Before she died, Caroline had told Nicholas about a strange doctor who had examined her when she became ill. Nicholas is determined to find this man and when the DC police escort him to the airport, instead of flying back to England, Nicholas is en route to the island of Malta. The events that transpire on Malta send Nicholas to Spain and into a paranoid journey to protect a man he had never dreamed he would meet. That man is the President of the US. The twists and turns, lies, and very real danger to Nicholas and the few people he can really trust never let up. There are witches, plots at the highest level of government and assassins, as Nicholas flees from the Secret Service, the CIA, and the police departments of several different countries. The author is known for writing thrillers and he does not disappoint with his latest. There is no let-up in the suspense and in the sense the reader gets of being a passenger on a runaway train – a wreck about to happen. No one is who you think they are. Who can Nicholas trust? What will happen to the lovely young journalist who is trying to help Nicholas, but for her own motives? These and the many other plot twists will keep the reader up late at night. While there are some rather hard to believe coincidences at work here, everything comes together very nicely in the end. Or – does it? The author has created many complex characters, a few good, and many evil. The tension in this book is intense, and in spite of its over 500 pages length, it is a very fast read.
Reviewed by Lorraine Gelly, May 2006
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