I know, you may have seen it in the movies.
But coming from a former CIA operative, it's real.
You can tell a lot about a book by reading the acknowledgments.
Thanks Jake Needham for pushing Michael R. Davidson to churn out a better book.
Another author suggested the writer cut down his word count.
You can never accuse Mr. Davidson of being verbose.
But if he stripped it down even more, so be it.
I’m biased, and the more word count, the happier this reader is.
Krystal is on the booze again.
She’s dealing with personal shit.
Robert, her partner in an investigation firm, knows that a bit of action is what will shake her out of her drunken spell.
Like any good whiskey, it’s best drank in one sitting.
I had my own bottle of Lagavulin, ‘ a 25-year old single malt whiskey.’
I eventually opened the bottle a third through the book.
Then I just consumed.
'DeLorenzo and the FBI were certain Pushkin had been killed by a Russian assassin. Everything else was marginal for them.'
'She’d have to watch the coffee intake because peeing behind the bushes was frowned upon in Charlotte, but she was incapable of starting the day without it.
'Krystal watched him drive away in his muddy Jeep. He must do some off-roading in that thing. It said something about Wolf being a risk taker, she liked that. And he was smart. '
'All of Strachey’s antennae were vibrating now.'
Are you convinced yet?